Rare, near very good Brentano's edition with a unique provenance. The high school is known for championships and a place where tradition never dies. Interestingly, Elden hailed from Mennonite country in Mannheim, Penn and their sports venue is Elden Rettew Stadium named in his honor as the department-store owner who developed the park where the stadium now stands.
Stylish antiquarian fountain-pen signature inside cover: "Elden N. Additional partial-page imagery, vignettes, and decoration by Harry Clarke throughout. Includes eight beautifully mounted colour plates set on grey matte pages, and twenty-four smooth-coated, chiaroscuro-like, monochromatic plates. Profusely illustrated with the ethereal, spine-tingling imagery of Harry Clarke. Frontispiece tipped-in colour plate named "He shrieked once - once only". Black full-cloth boards, Harry Clarke illustrated plate set at front, gilt embossed spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub, bump. Dust wrapper is smart with very minor edge wear and a few faint marks, a little heavier to the rear wrap. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. In the original price clipped dust wrapper.The collected stories of Edgar Allan Poe, focusing on his suspenseful and fantastical tales including a total of twenty-nine stories, such as 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'The Cask of Amontillado', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', and more.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty-three plates.Collated, complete.?Poe was a leading American writer of the nineteenth century, still remembered today for his macabre tales that defined Victorian taste in the decades after this death.Including the original illustrations by Harry Clarke, a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
A superior reprint of the collected spooky and mysterious tales of Edgar Allan Poe, complete with the original illustrations by Harry Clarke.
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