POE, Edgar Allan.

Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe.

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before": The Buckner Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales and Poems; Finely Bound

New York and Boston: E.B. Hall & Co., Incorporated, c. 1900.

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The Buckner Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales and Poems, with a biographical essay by John W. Engram. Octavo, six volumes bound in three quarters crimson morocco with gilt tooling and titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings including frontispieces, ribbons bound in. In very good condition. Rare.

Edgar Allan Poe was a member of the American Romantic Movement of the Nineteenth Century. He is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, and he is considered the inventor of the genres of detective fiction and, the then emerging, science fiction. The anguish in his fiction reflects the torment he experienced from his financial difficulties. Indeed, he was one of America's earliest practitioners of the short story, and he was the first popular American writer to attempt to live off the income of writing alone. In light of his unexpected but immense contributions, the Edgar Award is presented annually for distinguished work in the mystery genre.