Auction archive: Lot number 106

RACKHAM, Arthur; illustrator - POE, Edgar Allen. - Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

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Auction archive: Lot number 106

RACKHAM, Arthur; illustrator - POE, Edgar Allen. - Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1935]. 4to. 12 mounted color plates with printed descriptive tissue guards and17 black and white plates. Original vellum, upper cover pictorially stamped in gilt to a Rackham design of a skeleton with dagger, spine and upper cover titles gilt, top edge gilt; black cloth slipcase. Condition: Rear endpapers with very minor offsetting; bottom corners bumped. one of 460 copies signed by rackham . Likely the best known illustrations to Poe’s weird fiction, and here in the signed limited edition.

Auction archive: Lot number 106
Beschreibung:

Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1935]. 4to. 12 mounted color plates with printed descriptive tissue guards and17 black and white plates. Original vellum, upper cover pictorially stamped in gilt to a Rackham design of a skeleton with dagger, spine and upper cover titles gilt, top edge gilt; black cloth slipcase. Condition: Rear endpapers with very minor offsetting; bottom corners bumped. one of 460 copies signed by rackham . Likely the best known illustrations to Poe’s weird fiction, and here in the signed limited edition.

Auction archive: Lot number 106
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