Poe Tales Of The Grotesque

"[LINDNER, Richard.] HOFFMANN, E.T.A. Tales of Hoffmann. Thick large octavo, 509pp. First edition of this edition of the most extraordinary tales of the fantastic and the grotesque conceived before Poe, in fact, the mentor to Poe, Hugo, Stevenson and a host of others. The translation is not credited, but Christopher Lazare has edited the collection and written the introduction. An extremely uncommon edition under an almost unknown imprint, constituting one of the earliest, if not the earliest works of book art by the wonderful German artist Richard Lindner after his departure from Germany, twelve in color and sixteen in black-and-white. Very good in publisher's cloth-covered boards and illustrated dust jacket, the latter with a mid-size v-shaped chip to the upper edge. Very scarce.

New York: A.A. Wyn, 1946

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Poe, Edgar Allan: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in ten volumes ; newly collected and edited, with a memoir, critical introductions, and notes, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry 8 Bände, London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1895.
in englischer Sprache ; es fehlen Band 1 + 3 ; mit Illustrationen von Albert Edward Sterner ; jeder Band mit Frontispiz ; Band 2: "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" ; Band 4: "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" ; Band 5: "Tales of Adventure and Exploration" ; Band 6: "Literary Criticism" ; Band 7: "Literary Criticism" ; Band 8: "Literary Criticism" ; Band 9: "Eureka, and Miscellanies" ; Band 10: "Poems" ; unbeschnitten <**UTFAQ**>---- ABWEICHENDE PORTOKOSTEN: Im Einzelfall können statt der angegebenen Portokosten von EUR 2,-- für Büchersendungen im Inland auch EUR 5,-- anfallen, wenn die Sendung mehr als 1 kg wiegt ----</**UTFAQ**>

zusammen ca. 2600 Seiten 8°, rotes OLn mit goldgeprägtem Rücken

[SW: Li 21477 i]

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(POE, Edgar Allan). Manuscript Found in a Bottle in THE GIFT: A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENT FOR 1836. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, [1835].
Intricately embossed red morocco with a ferocious eagle at the center and gilt lettering on the spine. BAL 10146 & 16126. The first appearance inprint of Poe's macabre tale of the sea later collected in TALES OF THE GROTESQUE. This is also Poe's first appearance in THE GIFT and only his fourth appearance in a book. Also includes "An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron" by Washington Irving. Very early owner inscription on third blank dated 9 October 1835. Illustrated with 8 (of 9) steel engravings, lacking a portrait having nothing to do with Poe's tale which has no illustration to accompany it. In our experience, this particular year is often found lacking something, and in this case what it lacks is rather insignificant..

First Edition, leather, Bright, clean copy with only mild rubbing. Close to Fine..

[SW: Edgar Allan Poe Rare Horror 19th C. Amer. Lit. Gift Books Binding Nautical Southern Literature Washington Irving,]

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McGrath, Patrick: BLOOD AND WATER and Other Tales, New York Poseidon Books/Simon & Schuster 1988
ISBN: 0-671-64405-X Very Good to Fine

A collection of thirteen stories "drawn from the mind's most unruly nightmares and macabre alcoves," ranging from "the bugaboos of Victorian superstition and Freudian psychology to the curse of human desire, from English estates to the dark, savage Congo to the downtown bohemia of Manhattan after midnight." Pale green boards w/blue cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 192 pages, dust jacket illustration by Wendell Minor. Sunned edges, small remainder stamp to bottom edge, in lightly rubbed dj w/light general wear. A nice copy. First Edition Very Good Hard Cover Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall

[SW: Patrick McGrath, Edgar Allan Poe, Wendell Minor, postmodern-gothic, nightmares, macabre, grotesque, Victorian superstition, Freudian psychology, colonial India, Jesuit, Jesuits, psychiatrists]

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