Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 2 vols.

by Edgar Alan Poe

$27,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840 i.e., late 1839 . First edition. Poe’s influential first collection of tales gathers all twenty-five stories he had produced to date. They include two of his best-known stories, “Fall of the House of Usher” and “MS. Found in a Bottle,” along with the first known appearance in print of “Why the Little Frenchman Wears His

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