EDGAR ALLAN POE: POETRY & TALES Suntup Numbered Edition #53 of 310 OOP

EDGAR ALLAN POE: POETRY & TALES Suntup Numbered Edition #53 of 310 Copies. Out of print. No bundle discount on this item. Torture chambers. Premature burials. Spectral birds. Crumbling castles. Men gone mad by revenge. Women who return from the grave. These are the deranged fantasies & dark superstitions spun into masterpieces of terror by Edgar Allan Poe. Best known for his poems & short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, & transported readers to his own supernatural realm. Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales features the complete works of the author, including all of Poe’s most macabre short stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” & “The Masque of the Red Death,” as well as every poem of haunting genius like “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee” & “The Haunted Palace.” Together, these poems & tales reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe’s idealism, his visionary qualities, his responsiveness to beauty and love, & his fascination with the eerie & morbid. This book has full Japanese cloth binding w/ letterpress printed Hahnemühle Bugra labels on the front cover & spine. The cover label is a reproduction of a wood engraving by Thomas Bewick from 1797. Endsheets feature art by Gustave Doré. The edition is printed offset on archival Cougar Natural Smooth & is housed in a in a black cloth covered slipcase w/ red cloth ends. Signed by Michael J. Deas & Kelley Hensing.