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Published by New York: The Modern Library Publishers. Autumn 1940., 1940
Seller: Shepardson Bookstall, Brookline, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. BOOK: Stiff Boards covered in Red Cloth, green and gold trim; Kent Endpapers; Green Top-stain; Spine #8; very sturdy clean copy. DUST JACKET; has 274 titles listed on inside making it Autumn 1940 per Scot Kamins research: has Emerson, does not have Hugo. Chips on top and bottom edges and corners. STORY: Tales of Imaginative Science, Tales of Grotesque and Amusing, Tales Weird and Beautiful, Tales of Ratiocination, Tales Psychological and Gruesome, Prose Poems: Shadow, Silence and Eleonora lastly, Studies in Landscape. THIS LITTLE BOOK HAS THEM ALL.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small Tears chips inner Hinges, , The Spectacles Story was Found at Last by Col. Richard Gimbel, President of International Poe Society, Edgar Allan Poe Club of Philadelphia & Richard Gimbel Foundation for Literary Research ! Illustrated by J. Henry, Stephen Grout, ETC in B/W & Color, PBO. MAGAZINE light Rub, Wear Tiny Chips, light wrinkles, Tears Cover & Edges, Light Wrinkling, GOOD + Condition, AS-IS, September 24, 1938. 1st Edition, Interior nice tight Clean, light FOX, Wear, Couple pages with some Red light Stains, .Contains The Spectacles, Edgar Allan Poe's Lost Short Story of more than 100 yrs - Found at LaSt by Col. Richard Gimbel, one of Wealthiest Men in Country was President of International Poe Society ! The Spectacles, Story of Aunt Married Only 1 Yr. & Her Husband Killed In Spain in Military leaves her with Daughter Lucy ,who live in Beautiful Cottage. Aunt Devoted herself to education of Lucy, who was Pretty Little Fairy of a Daughter, who by the way is a picture of similarity of Poe's Child-wife, Virginia. Like Lucy Virginia loved Violets & PLayed the Harp. Here we have a puzzle worthy of Poe himself, Is It a Hoax or Not? Lucy's Aunt is same sort of woman as Poes Aunt. Lucy wears Spectacles Only to Read Music. Includes Mystery by Whitman Chambers, & Room Without View by Hamlen Hunt, Over Kansas City by Fred Allhoff, from Worse to Better by Walter Brooks, Dizzy Dean is a Pop-Off ETC.