Edgar Allen Poe

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

With the Illustrations of Harry Clarke. A limited edition, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. pp. 304. Black morocco gilt. Silk endpapers. Fine copy.
Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
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