Literature
POE, Edgar Allen; Harry CLARKE [illus.].
Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
New York: Tudor Publishing, 1933. Deluxe Clarke edition, 4to., 412pp., 8 tipped-in colour plates, 24 black and white plates, original black cloth gilt with paper pictorial label heightened with gilt to upper cover, original dust wrapper with closed 9cm tear to upper edge of spine, original black board box with colour illustrated paper label to entire upper cover, a particularly fine, fresh copy, rare in its box.
This, Clarke's second work, is considered by many to be his greatest achievement in book design in his short career, curtailed by tuberculosis. As a boy Harry Clarke trained in his father's stained glass studio in Dublin before matriculating at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. During his studies he spent time in Paris under the tutelage of Ernest Taylor and his wife, Jessie M. King. His real feeling for gothic horror can be seen in his Poe illustrations, where tubercular figures rise in agony from pools of black ink.
Price: £ 650
US Dollar Price: $ 950
Stock Number: 75427