The Fall of the House of Usher
de Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Alice Neel. [Afterword by Raphael Soyer]
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E-144: The Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1985. Signed Limited. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. The Limited Editions Club, New York. 1985. 32 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates. Illustrated with two color lithographs and an etching by Alice Neel, with a tribute to Neel by Raphael Soyer. First Edition/First Printing. Number 1423 of 1500 limited edition copies. Signed by Alice Neel and Raphael Soyer. Housed in a black clamshell box (slightly rubbed) with a morocco title label lettered in gilt affixed to the front panel.. Bound in quarter maroon Nigerian goatskin over matching marble paper covered boards . Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid (you will notice that the text block has a yapped edge close to the spine; that's how they bound the book there are no missing pages). This example of Poe's classic tale was printed by the Anthoensen Press on mould-made paper, designed by Ben Shiff and hand-set by Michael and Winifred Bixler. The bound copies were bound by John Isakovics in hand-marbled paper by Faith Harrison. Alice Neel died shortly before the publication of this volume and the images are dark and exceptional and include her stunning skull "self-portrait". The printer brought blank pages to Neel to sign and she signed approximately 400 of them before she passed away. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
Sinopsis
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. It was slightly revised in 1840 for the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. It contains within it the poem "The Haunted Palace", which had earlier been published separately in the April 1839 issue of the Baltimore Museum magazine.
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- Título
- The Fall of the House of Usher
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- Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Alice Neel. [Afterword by Raphael Soyer]
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
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- Signed Limited
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- The Limited Editions Club
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- E-144
- Fecha de publicación
- 1985
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
