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(Description)

Author: Edgar Allan Poe.
Title: Weird Tales.
Publisher: Philadephia, Henry Altemus, no date (1895).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 6 " X 4.5 ".
Pages: 258 pages.
Binding: Good and still attractive full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall worn, soiled and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, gift note of a previous 1896 owner on the first endpaper - as shown). 
Illustrations: Illustrated with a nice frontispiece portrait and 8 full-page illustrations.

Estimate: (USD 300 - USD 400)

The book: Rare illustrated Altemus edition of the Weird Tales by Edgar Allan Poe including Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Pit & the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gold Bug, etc.

The author: Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.