Stated: -- First Edition -- Signed Hardcover Edition -- This special edition is limited to 1,000 copies. No number line. No date other than year. Publication date from Amazon.com as of 12/28/2010. Cover artist credit per copyright page & rear inside dust jacket. Various authors were given the task to take a little-known, unfinished story fragment written by Edgar Allan Poe near the end of his life and finish it, using Poe's language, images, and ideas. The version of the fragment used for these stories was compiled by Thomas O. Mabbott and originally published in Notes and Queries (April 25, 1942).