by Edgar Allan Poe.

Introduction by Vincent Starrett.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, (1975).

Collector's Edition, The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Series.

Frontispiece portrait art by Raymond F. Houlihan specially commissioned for this Easton Press Collector's edition.

Fifteen plate illustrations by William Sharp who employed the evocative and very time consuming art medium of aquatints to express Poe's masterpieces.

Easton Press bookplate, with former owner's name typed-in, attached to the verso of the front end-paper, else fine and crisp in rich-brown leather with patterned gilt embossed decorations to the front and rear covers, gilt embossed decorations and titles to the raised five-band hubbed spine, brown-and-yellow headband and tail-band, all page edges gilt, burnished-apricot satin-moire end-papers, and a sewn-in silk ribbon marker.

10.25" by 7" by 1.5"; 366 pages; plus introduction, and publisher's preface.

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