Price: $60.00
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Book Condition: Very Good
6th printing. Includes publisher's slipcase and dust jackets (the later book club edition appears to have done away with the jackets). Jacket spines toned and lightly spotted, jacket prices clipped, clear tape repairs to slipcase seams. 1964 Hard Cover. xx, 1092 pp., paginated continuously. 8vo. These two volumes contain all of Poe's 68 tales and 47 poems, 13 of his most important critical essays (including 'The Poetic Principle,' 'The Rationale of Verse,' and 'Letter to B'), a selection from the 'Marginalia' -- and the long 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.' The Borzoi Poe has been edited by Arthur Hobson Quinn, outstanding Poe scholar and author of the definitive Poe biography, who supplies an illuminating introduction and helpful explanatory notes. The collation and definition of the texts was done by Edward H. O'Neill, who has contributed valuable bibliographical notes. Illuminating the spirit of the texts, E. McKnight Kauffer has made especially for these volumes 12 full-page color illustrations and 8 line drawings. Here, in definitive text and in a beautiful format designed by W.A. Dwiggins, is all of Poe that most readers will ever wish to read and own.
Title: The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, with Selections from His Critical Writings, Introduction, and Explanatory & Bibliographical Notes (The Borzoi Poe)
Illustrator: Kauffer, E. McKnight
Categories: Poetry, Horror, American, Short Stories,
Edition: 6th Printing
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1964
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Seller ID: 2305378
