PROSE TALES EDGAR ALLEN POE 1911

 BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, BINDING IS TIGHT, INSCRIPTION IN PENCIL ON FIRST PAGE, SOME UNDERLINING IN PENCIL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BOOK

PROSE TALES
BY EDGAR ALLEN POE
WITH AN INTRODUCTION JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

PUBLISHED BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL, NO DATE GIVEN BUT INSCRIPTION IN BOOK SAYS 1911

PUBLISHERS NOTE:

"THE THIRTEEN TALES HERE PRESENTED ARE GENERALLY REGARDED AS REPRESENTATIVE OF POE'S PECULIAR GENIUS.  THEY ARE SELECTED FROM THE EDITION OF 1850, PUBLISHED BY MRS. CLEMM, POE'S FAITHFUL MOTHER-IN-LAW AND GOOD ANGEL.  THE INTRODUCTION, BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, WHICH GIVES AS A BIOGRAPHICAL ITEM POE'S MYTHICAL VISIT TO ST. PETERSBURG, AND THE PORTRAIT, ARE BOTH FROM THE SAME EDITION, - AN EDITION SO RARE THAT IT IS NOT IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY OR IN THE ATHENAEUM."

STORIES INCLUDE:

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
LIGEIA
THE GOLD BUG
THE BLACK CAT
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET
THE PURLOINED LETTER
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO