Tales, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Westvaco Bat Motif Slipcase HC 1964

by Poe, Edgar Allan

$90 · Offered by eBay · No longer available

CONDITION: Good+. First Edition; First Printing w/ Bat Slipcase. 1964. West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. (Westvaco). Good. Hardcover. Quarter black leatherette over custom pictorial boards. Gold foil stamping front panel & spine. Blind-embossed "POE" to front board. Superficial cosmetic splitting to spine overlay fabric at rear external hinge; binding, stitching, & text block entirely unaffected, tight, & structurally firm. Text block exceptionally clean, square, & unmarked. Daguerreotype portrait of Poe, 1848, as frontispiece. Woodcut frontispiece crisp. "Presented By Alan Fraser" slip included (not pasted in), presentation copy. Original scarce green bat-motif slipcase. Split to top edge of slipcase, very sturdy. Minimal shelf rubbing & sharp corners. Illustrated throughout. Foreword by Jean Bradnick, 6pp. Collects four Poe works: The Gold Bug, The Purloined Letter, The Balloon Hoax, & The Black Cat. The Purloined Letter printed entirely on dark forest green paper in landscape orientation. American Classics Series initiated 1958 by CEO David Luke; purpose was corporate promotional showcase of Westvaco high-grade printing papers. Ships in box, from the USA, quickly & w/care. SYNOPSIS: This 1964 Westvaco Christmas Keepsake collects four works by Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, The Purloined Letter, The Balloon Hoax, and The Black Cat, in a strictly limited corporate promotional printing produced as part of Westvaco's American Classics Series. Initiated in 1958 by CEO David Luke

• Publisher: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. (Westvaco)
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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