[CLARKE, Harry] POE, Edgar Allan: Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

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Early Edition. Qto., pp. 412. With colour frontispiece and 31 plates, of which 7 are coloured. Publisher’s black cloth with bright gilt titles to spine, pictorial title pasted down to upper; top edge tinted black. In near fine unfaded dust-wrapper with minor edgewear and a couple of nicks. Internally crisp. A lovely copy kept thus by being held in its original black board box, broken, rubbed and worn, one side of lid missing, with coloured pictorial title pasted down to lid.
A seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Conan Doyle, Verne, and Baudelaire. This collection of Poe’s best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterize his work, as well as the Gothic horror of ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ with other similarly wierd tales, together with all three of the landmark cases featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin; the history of the detective story begins with the publication of ‘The Murders In the Rue Morgue’ (Matthews).
He was a writer of genius who was interested in crime, especially violent death, in cryptograms, and the whole process of logical deduction (Quayle).
Poe’s mystery of ’The Purloined Letter’ is a prototype of spy stories like those of James Bond. (Haining)

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