Tales of Mystery & Imagination
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Overview:
- Title: Tales of Mystery & Imagination
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Year: 2008
- ISBN-10: 9780785824527
- Publisher: Chartwell Books
- Price: $24.99
- Pages: 383
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: A Descent Into the Maelstrom
- Notes:
- Large format (11.8 in, 30 cm --Amazon)
- Data from Amazon.com as of 2011-05-29, and from its Look Inside apparent 1st printing (visited also 2017-11-13).
- Title page shows: "Chartwell Books, Inc." above logo Copyright page states: -- "This edition printed in 2008 by // Chartwell Books, Inc. // A Division of Book Sales, Inc." [New Jersey, USA] -- "Copyright (c) 2008 Arcturus Publishing Limited" [London, UK]
- Both cover illustrations (from Amazon's "Look" 2017-11-13) are similar to those by Clarke. Front cover foreground is that of the full-page b/w drawing on page 19, caption: "Incomprehensible Men! Wrapped Up in Meditations of a Kind Which I Cannot Divine, They Pass Me By Unnoticed".
- WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports: -- "After the original edition by Tudor Publishing Co., New York, 1935"--Title page verso. -- "383 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm" Amazon's "Look" includes the copyright page, which is correctly quoted here. But the Tudor ed. was originally published in 1933, reported page-count 412; the full set of illustrations by Harry Clarke originally published in the 1923 Harrap and Brentano's ed., reported page-count 383.