Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Overview:

  • Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
  • Author: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Year: 1986
  • ISBN-10: 0706426517
  • Publisher: Octopus Books
  • Pages: 317
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: A Descent Into the Maelstrom
  • Notes:
    • Facsimile of 1935 Harrap edition --WorldCat
    • WorldCat (OCLC, below) also gives: -- Octopus, 1986, ISBN 0706426517 -- 6 pages of plates, 26 cm -- list of Contents (25 stories; no essay)
    • For this ISBN as of 2017-10-25, Amazon UK gives -- "Hardcover – 16 Oct 1986" -- "Publisher: Bounty Books (16 Oct. 1986)" -- "24.6 x 19.6 x 3.6 cm" -- image linked here That image shows a hardcover book with dustjacket, whose spine states "Octopus Books".

      For same ISBN, Amazon US gives -- "Hardcover – November, 1989" -- "Publisher: Horizon Book Promotions; First Edition edition (November 1989)" -- 9.7 x 7.7 x 1.4 inches -- image of identical front jacket (spine not visible)

      WorldCat data accepted, and identified as the hardcover book whose image Amazon UK displays (linked here), despite the mis-match with Amazon-reported publisher/imprint and size, and the mis-match with Amazon US data.
    • For this ISBN 2017-10-25, Amazon UK and US both provide "Look inside!" a 2015 Pook Press paperback edition that shows -- front cover with same illustration as 1986 Octopus and back cover with illustration in same style and hues -- back cover states ISBN 978-14455-0599-2, "... Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork ..." -- Contents, p5-6; page 6 missing -- Illustrations, p7-8, lists "in colour" (12) and "in line" (17); title page not included The 17 listed Contents match the first 17 listed by WorldCat for the 1986 Octopus and 1935 Harrap; listed page numbers 11 to 178.

      That "Look" does not make clear whether the dustjacket illustration is by Rackham, nor whether it dates from 1935.