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"I shrank
back- but the closing walls pressed me resistlessly onward. At length for
my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the
firm floor of the prison. I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul
found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair. "
-illustration and quote from The Pit and the Pendulum |
| [RACKHAM, Arthur]. POE,
Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. By Edgar Allan Poe.
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd.,
1935. Quarto, original full vellum gilt. $3400.
Signed limited first edition, number 322 of 460 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. With twelve mounted color plates, seventeen black and white plates, numerous in-text drawings, and wonderfully frightening decorated endpapers. Included among the 25 Poe tales are such classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter. Without original slipcase. A fine copy, rare in this condition. more images, please click to enlarge:
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