User:Pwendt/People/Edgar Allan Poe

created 2017-11-10 by import of copious recent notes on "Mystery and/& Imagination" short story collections only

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elsf Edgar Allan Poe 622 (944)

[[...] Poe's] Tales of Mystery [and/&] Imagination

probably more than 10 distinct collections share the title

1902 coll. T2078491

1902 Contents P591199

336841, 68369, 84434, 940881, 84433, 336881, 84432, 55035, 84430, 86784, 84431, 55037, 76056, 94786, 97509, 68295, 86030, 1211569, 979483, 998260, 95988, 55039 --in queue; NEEDS more work

2003 (CRW) Collector's Library (#14) ✓

its differences from 1902 contents "MS Found in a Bottle" (Ms.) and "Loss of Breath" (no subtitle)

2010 Arcturus o[1], Chartwell o[2]

Rackham's Poe, 25-story collection, 1935 T2078538

1935 Lippincott P591252 --in queue; later check newspapers and Amazon

1935 Harrap --later clone from 1935 Lippincott

[3] The Scotsman 1935-12-14 review column "Christmas Gift Books" > Complementary Arts: Writers and Illustrators in Collaboration"; 21/- (another is Hans Andersen, illus. Rex Whistler, 7/6, Cobden-Sanderson)

o[4] o[5] --ordinary ed. apparently

o[6] limited ed with list of Contents

(other records provide few data, report 25cm and 26cm for the ordinary edition apparently)

1986 facsimile o[7] ISBN 0706426517 --later clone from 1935 Lippincott --in queue

2015 Pook Press paperback, ISBN 978-14455-0599-2, with "Look inside!" at Amazon --ni WorldCat

Amazon

1986-10-16 Bounty Books [8] as ISBN 0706426517, with Look inside 2015 Pook; spine shows "Octopus Books" --in queue as 1986 Octopus P638344 --NEEDs a revisit

1987 Octopus hc[9] as ISBN 0706430166, paperback[10] as ISBN 0706430166

o[11] as 234 pages, 24 cm

ISBN 0706426517 as Horizon Book Promotions, 1989-11 [12], ill Rackham; with Look inside 2015 Pook (same cover illus.) -- as "Poe's Tales ..." --in queue as 1986 Octopus

2008-03-01 Wordsworth ✓

2015-04-16 Pook \Clarke [13], ill Harry Clarke, with Look inside ... 29 stories ; 24 illus (front + 23 plates) --MAYBE ADD

2015-11-28 Pook \Rackham [14], with Look inside ... ?? stories ; 29 illus. (1+11 color, 17 b/w line) --MAYBE ADD

2016-11-17 Forgotten [15], with Look inside, 2-volume

1936 Spencer Press P591253 --in queue = Spencer Collection of the NYPL? [16]

25-story collection 2078538 -- apparent facsimile title page shows "&", both Pook Press eds. (but that is 404-page non-facsimile

• the first 17 title variants do match those in the 2015 Pook Press paperback (ISBN 978-1445505992) list of Contents (viewed as "Look inside!" at Amazon); $29.99

"Paperback – April 15, 2015" "Pook Press (April 15, 2015)"

404 pp, 10 in

(no view of title page)

• all 25 title variants match those in the Kindle (ASIN B004TQUQOG) list of Contents, except Kindle shows "Rogêt" (however, "Maelstrom")

Kindle, at Amazon title page illus., "George G. Harrap"; $3.99

"Kindle Edition" "Pook Press (April 16, 2013)"

print length 405pp

12 in colour, 17 in line

(evident facsimile t.p. "&")

WorldCat Harrap 1935 Limited Ed. Contents list o[17] is precise match for Kindle (Maelstrom, Rogêt)

LATER NOTE THE "Maelstrom, Rogêt" issue at both publication records

• yet another edition with 1935(?) cover art at Amazon, ISBN 0-517-20235-2

"Hardcover – December 12, 1988" "Gramercy; New edition edition (December 12, 1988)"

317 pp, 10.1 in

check 1936 newspapers for ordinary ed. and US ed.

[18] Edward Larocque Tinker, NY Times 1936-01-05 pBR16 "New Editions, Fine and Otherwise" : Lippincott $5, 12 full-page color and 17 line illustrations --in queue

brief review NYHT 1936-02-09 pG8, 318pp, $5

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Other titles in 29-story LEC/Easton, ill Sharp

The Black Cat, Shadow .., Silence .., The Oblong Box, The [1002nd] .., A Predicament, The Devil [ = 7 not in the 25-story Harrap/Octopus, ill Rackham]

The Imp of the Perverse, King Pest, The Man of the Crowd [ = 3 in the 25-story collection]

And not in the 29-story Harrap/Collector's, ill Clarke

Shadow ..., The [1002nd] ..., A Predicament, The Devil ;

The Oval Portrait, Hop-Frog, Eleonora, The Purloined Letter

In Harrap/Collector's, not in LEC/Easton (8)

King Pest, The Man of the Crowd ;

Some Passages ... (Lionizing), Bon-Bon, The Conversation ..., The Colloquy ..., The Spectacles, Landor's Cottage

46-story Everyman's Library collection

- 22 29 25 29 16 ; publ dates 1902, 1923, 1935, 1941, 1936

1. — — 13 20 11 — William Wilson ... • nt
2. — — — — — — A Tale of the Ragged Mountains • ss
3. — — — — — — The Domain of Arnheim • non-genre • ss (variant of The Landscape-Garden)
4. — — 29 — — — Landor's Cottage • non-genre • ss
5. — — — — — — The Elk • ESSAY (variant of Morning On The Wissahiccon)
6. — — — — — — The Island of the Fay • ss
7. — — — — — — The Sphinx • ss
8. 01 — 22 14 05 01 The Gold Bug • non-genre • nt
9. 21 — 15 11 — — The Man of the Crowd • ss
10. 19 — — — 16 — Shadow ... • [Tales of the Folio Club] • ss
11. 20 — 09 — 17 — Silence ... • [Tales of the Folio Club] • ss
12. — — 18 — — — The Colloquy of Monos and Una • ss
13. — — 14 — — — The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion • ss
14. 08 — 12 12 04 05 The Fall of the House of Usher • nt
15. — — 05 07 02 — The Assignation • [Tales of the Folio Club] • ss (variant of The Visionary)
16. 17 — 11 15 15 09 Ligeia • ss
17. — — — 16 10 — Eleonora • ss
18. — — 02 17 12 — Berenice ... • ss
19. — — 03 18 27 — Morella ... • ss
20. 14 — — 13 06 16 The Oval Portrait • ss
21. — — 07 08 -- — King Pest ... • ss
22. 12 — 19 10 26 06 The Masque of the Red Death • ss
23. 13 — 28 04 03 07 The Cask of Amontillado • ss
24. — — 08 22 14 — Metzengerstein • [Tales of the Folio Club] • ss
25. 09 — 20 09 22 08 The Pit and the Pendulum • ss
26. — — — 06 09 — Hop-Frog ... • ss
27. 04 — 10 03 01 04 A Descent into the Maelström • ss
28. 03 — 01 19 08 — Ms. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • ss
29. 10 — 25 05 20 15 The Premature Burial • ss
30. 02 — 26 21 13 — The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • ss
31. 16 — 21 02 21 — The Tell-Tale Heart • ss
32. — — — — — — Mellonta Tauta • ss
33. — — — — 24 — The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade • ss
34. 15 — 27 — 18 14 The Oblong Box • ss
35. — — 24 — — 11 The Spectacles • nt
36. — — — — — — X-ing a Paragrab • ss
37. xx — — 01 — — The Imp of the Perverse • ss
38. — — — — — — The Balloon Hoax • ss
39. 05 — 16 23 29 02 The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • nt
40. 06 — 17 24 19 03 The Mystery of Marie Rogêt • [Chevalier Dupin] • nv
41. 07 — — 25 23 10 The Purloined Letter • [Chevalier Dupin] • nt
42. — — — — — — "Thou Art the Man" • ss
43. 18 — — — — — Loss of Breath ... • [Tales of the Folio Club] • ss (variant of A Decided Loss)
44. — — 06 — — — Bon-Bon • [Tales of the Folio Club] • ss (variant of The Bargain Lost)
45. — — — — 28 — The Devil in the Belfry ... • ss
46. 11 — 23 — 07 — The Black Cat • ss

- 22 — — — — 12 Some Words with a Mummy • ss

- — — — — 25 — A Predicament • ss (variant of The Scythe of Time)

- — — 04 — — — Some Passages ... (Lionizing) • [Tales of the Folio Club] • ss

- — — — — — 13 Maelzel's Chess-Player • ESSAY

Bluesman (The Easton Press, 1975) gives Maelstrom, Gold-Bug, Rogêt, Masque, Devil

where WorldCat reports Maelström, Gold-Bug, Rogêt, Mask, Devile

WorldCat (LEC, 1941) o[19] gives (beside "&")

WorldCat (Heritage Press, (c)1941) o[20] gives (beside "and")

differs only in showing the two diacritical marks

of which only four need attention per WorldCat record (0.1, 0.2, 1, 19)

introduction ... photogravure

29 stories

2017 pbk at Amazon w Look Inside that shows 11 stories, 10 illustrations

WorldCat

2008 Calla o[21] 1606600044 at Amazon with Look Inside adequate, much of pp 9-27, p[414] Printed and bound ... // Distributed ... --SOURCE FOR TUDOR PAGINATION; THEN CLONE AS THE CALLA

o[22] corrupt with second ISBN 0746051964 == Usborne Classics, 2002 pbk at Amazon w Look Inside == 7 stories for younger readers

2008 as Chartwell ISBN 9780785824527 30 cm ! --indb o[23]

2008 as Arcturus ISBN 9781841939469 o[24] at Amazon as 2009 hardcover, 11.6 in

o[25] ebook

2014 Arcturus ISBN 9781784042158 o[26], o[27] at Amazon as 2014-09-15 hardcover, 9.5 in

ADD

1993 Wordsworth

2008 Calla

MORE WORK

1902 Grant Richards

1986 Octopus

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DISASTROUS CRASH -- ADOPT NEW PROCEDURE NOW for notes on historical newspapers

hours at HDL (21 hits) identifying multiple printings of Everyman's ed.

cat as 1908 (3) 1914 1931 1959

actually 1914[EAP's], 1931[EAP's], 1938, 1959, 1968[Poe's] with SBN, 1979

these appear to be identical only for the stories p3-527 (and 1914 lacks the final story, ends mid-p518)

1909 (Cassell) The People's Library #96, 40 stories --with back pages list of the first 100 volumes of that publication series

(The) People's Library --nidb, no hit ('People's Library') in publication Notes

1902 Grant Richards (catalogue error as Oxford, 419pp)

1902 title page The One Before does show Grant Richards (viewed at Google Books)

1903, 1910 H. Frowde (latter catalogue error as Dent, xv+518), reprints of 1902 Grant Richards "The World's Classics"; 16 or 20 stories

none others with full view

1933 (no view) Tudor Publishing Co., 1933, illus. Harry Clarke, 412, 28 cm

46-story (Everyman's Library 1908) 1829637

40-story (Cassell 1909) --HDL

29-story (another?)

29-story (Tudor, Clarke, 1933) 1290185 (and Brentano's 1923, 32 plates 2078532)

Price from listings as received Man Gua -11-03 p9, Irish Times -11-09 p3

at 21/- Price from mention among many in "The Book Beautiful" Manchester Guardian 1923-12-12 pXIV

review [28] The Irish Times -12-21 p3, 21/- (Harrap) "some in black and white, some coloured in lovely tints" (review of illustrations by Harry Clarke, North Frederick Street, Dublin)

"Landor's Cottage" as from Poe's Tales ..., reproduced with caption and no other text in "Art Books" Man Gua -12-12 pV

no hit in US newspapers 1923 1924

WorldCat - only 3 records sorted as 1923

Brentano 1923 o[29] "412, [2] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. (8 col. mounted) ; 27 cm."

Harrap;Brentano 1923? o[30] with list of Contents (29 stories), "381, [2] pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm"

Brentano 1923? o[31] "381 pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm"

412 pp not credible for the 1923 ed.

numerous booksellers report page-count 381 382 383 381+(3) for editions/printings at least so late as 1928, including one as c.1923 with list of 29 stories [32] ; George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. - Brentano's Publishers, London - New York

1923 "FIRST CLARKE EDITION, printed in Great Britain by the Ballantyne Press, this is the first US issue in Brentano's binding. Quarto, pp.384." [33]

one seller shows interior image "Of this Edition [2500] Copies Were Manufactured for the [USoA]", Printed and bound by J.J. Little & Ives of New York. [34]

1919 Harrap/Clarke with multiple images, 24 illus, 381 pp [35]

1919 Limited Ed. #12, 24 illus, 382 pp [36] w dustjacket

#163, original vellum [37]

25-story (Harrap, Rackham, 1935) 2078538

22-story (The World's Classics #21, 1902) 2078491 Grant Richard[s] 1902; reprints H. Frowde 1903, 1906, 1910

1902, The World's Classics, #1-27, this #21; price 1/- and 2/-

1903 list of The World's Classics, #1-66, this #21

Grant Richard [no 'S'], Contents viewed at HDL, differ from table of Contents only in subtitles p122 and p318 --in queue

20-story (Harrap; Brentano, 1919) 1751569

20 stories,

--sequence of 20 from WorldCat record as Harrap 1919 o[38]

the first 20 stories in that 29-story collection illustrated by Harry Clarke (from Contents of 2008 ed. viewed at Amazon)

--identical styling and sequence of 29 from WorldCat records as Harrap;Brentano's 1923? o[39] and Tudor 1933 o[40] and from "Look inside" 2008 ed. at Amazon

OCLC: <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2662212">2662212</a> as "London : Georde G. Harrap ; New York : Brentano's, [1923?]" -- gives list of Contents (29 stories) -- "[32] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm"

some 303-page reported facsimile is a page-count mismatch

NEWSPAPERS and perhaps magazines

1905 newspapers and magazines --Pearson not found; Long not found

Routledge's New Universal Library 1/- and 2/-; Poe's Tales forthcoming April

adverts 1905-05-20 [41] The Spectator p761, The Athenaeum, p612

"Printed from Accurate Texts, entirely Unabridged, and where necessary Annotated and Indexed. Pott 8vo (size of "The World's Classics"), olive green, cloth extra, full gilt back, 1s. net. Olive green lambskin gilt, gilt tops, silk register, 2s. net."

Routledge / New Universal Library (April 1905) --niW

('mystery and imagination') not found 2017-11-13 in 1905 newspapers

1935 newspapers "and" (16)

UK (Rackham ed.)

Man -11-07 p7 "Books Received", 21/-

Scotsman -12-12 p14 review

US

some retail list Harry Clarke ed. ($1.95)

Phi. Inquirer Public Ledger -12-28 p9, brief review Lippincott/Rackham (no price)

1933

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

[42] LATtimes 1933-06-26 pA3, retail advert "the beautiful Brentano edition" boxed $2.25

[43] -09-17 was $6.00 now $1.95; [44] -10-15 pA8, same content in effect, with more convincing sketch of the book

1923, 6 hits all UK

"mystery and imagination" brentano['s] (0 hits, 1919 to 1925) (1 hit 1926 to 1933)

1933-08-11 [45] "available to us through the reorganization of Brentano's in New York"; was $6.00 now $1.95

"mystery and imagination" "harry clarke"

(1919 to 1922, 1 hit 1920)

1920-05-23 [46]

(1 hit each, 1924/25)

1924-11-02 [47] illustration of Poe contest, by Clarke's Poe courtesy Harrap

1925-10-04 illustration of another review, by Clarke's Poe from the Brentano's ed. [48]

(1926 to 1933, 5 hits)

1. Man 1926-12-23 p4 (prose reference to Clarke's 1919)
2. NYT 1927-01-02 pBR7 (review column illustrated by one Clarke from Brentano)
3. Irish 1932-01-23 p6 (mentions of Clarke d. 1931 and Beardsley)
4. NYHT 1933-06-25 p12 (was $6.00 now $1.95)
5. LAT 1933-06-26 pA3 (Brentano's boxed $2.25)