Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales - Artist Edition

Torture chambers. Premature burials. Spectral birds. Crumbling castles. Men gone mad by revenge. Women who return from the grave. These are the deranged fantasies and dark superstitions spun into masterpieces of terror by Edgar Allan Poe.

Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and transported readers to his own supernatural realm. Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales features the complete works of the author, including all of Poe’s most macabre short stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death,” as well as every poem of haunting genius like “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee” and “The Haunted Palace.” Together, these poems and tales reveal the extraordinary spectrum of Poe’s idealism, his visionary qualities, his responsiveness to beauty and love, and his fascination with the eerie and morbid.

Also included in these complete works are Politian, Poe’s only play; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Poe’s only complete novel; The Journal of Julius Rodman, Poe’s second unfinished novel; “The Light-House,” Poe’s last incomplete work; and several dozen articles and essays written by the author.

The edition includes over eighty pages of bonus content, including reproductions of 28 engravings by Gustave Doré for “The Raven” originally published in 1883, a Poe chronology, and four essays by Poe; “Letter to B———,” “The Philosophy of Composition,” “The Rationale of Verse,” and “The Poetic Principle.”

Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales features the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s work, edited Patrick F. Quinn. First published in 1984 by The Library of America, Quinn’s edition of Poe’s complete writings took extensive care to select an authoritative text of each work. The printing and publishing history of every item was thoroughly investigated in order to choose a version that incorporated all of Poe’s own revisions without reproducing errors or changes introduced by later editors. Upon publication, The New York Review of Books referred to it as, “the first truly dependable collection of Poe’s poetry and tales.”

One of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century, Edgar Allan Poe’s disturbing, powerful and inventive voice continues to haunt and enthrall readers. 

The limited edition of Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist editions. 

Please note that the Artist edition is not numbered.

ARTIST EDITION

• 6” x 9¼” trim size.
• 1294 Pages.
• Limited to 750 copies.
• Signed by Kelley Hensing and Frans Smith.
• Full cloth symth-sewn binding.
• Gold blocking on the cover.
• New exclusive introduction by Michael J. Deas.
• Ten black and white illustrations by Kelley Hensing.
  
• Reproduction of the Edgar Allan Poe oil painting by Michael J. Deas for the 2008 commemorative postage stamp.
• Over 80 pages of bonus content, including reproductions of 28 engravings by Gustave Doré for “The Raven” originally published in 1883.
  
• Dust jacket illustrated by Frans Smit (the only edition featuring this illustrated dust jacket). 
  
• Set in Miller and Scotch types.
• Printed offset on archival Cougar Natural Smooth paper.
• Illustrated endsheets featuring artwork by Gustave Doré.
• Housed in a cloth covered slipcase.
  
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Published editions may differ slightly from mockups and prototype designs.
Illustrations © 2019 by Kelley Hensing.
Edgar Allan Poe Oil Painting © 2008 by Michael J. Deas.
Dust jacket cover artwork © 2022 by Frans Smit.