Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Overview:

  • Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
  • Author: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Year: 1933
  • Publisher: Tudor Publishing Company
  • Pages: 412
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: A Descent Into the Maelstrom
  • Notes:
      Page numbers added from the Dover "unabridged republication" (Calla Editions, 2008, 978-1606600047) list of Contents, viewed as "Look inside!" at Amazon 2017-11-15.
    • Data from WorldCat (OCLC, below, that record cited by the Library of Congress, LCCN); with list of Contents, 29 stories and sequence identical to that of the 2008 Chartwell collection.
    • Includes color jacket, color frontispiece + 31 plates (7 in color), plus numerous other illustrations. 1936 reprint has illustrated paper paste-down on front cover and, apparently, no dust jacket.
    • Published in box with pastedown cover. Image on the left shows the dust jacket on the left; the box on the right.
    • Not found 2017-11-15 in automated search of 1933 newspapers, probably. Some retailer advertisements certainly offer, and others probably do, the London:Harrap; NY:Brentano's edition of the same collection and illustrations ("the beautiful Brentano edition" boxed $2.25; and edition unspecified, was $6.00 now $1.95).