Title: The Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Cover artist: Uncredited [signature = Frye?]
Estimated value: $5-8
- I like to imagine the cat is drunk and smoking.
- There's almost too much going on on this cover, but I love the whimsical font fest, and the odd color combo, orange fading into a background of steel blue.
- Cover doesn't really convey "horror," though … unless you count the puddle of vomit where they've positioned the cat, quill, and mask. Pretty gross.
- This book is Beat To Hell—it's my reading copy of Poe—but it's a testament to the quality of the earliest mass-market paperbacks (January 1940! Pocket was less than a year old!). Solid, square, supple, no loose pages.
- Master Spider!
- "Effects" (so-called)
- I do like the bespectacled joey-free icon, though that one-volume OED is in danger of causing some grotesque pouch disfigurement.
Page 123~ (from "A Descent into the Maelström")
Twice during six years we were forced to stay all night at anchor on account of a dead calm, which is a rare thing indeed just about here; and once we had to remain on the grounds nearly a week, starving to death, owing to a gale which blew up shortly after our arrival, and made the channel too boisterous to be thought of.
~RP
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2 comments:
.. drunk on whatever that pink elixier is.
I don't ever think I've seen a book cover with a blurb from 'Alf. Lord Tennyson'.
I believe he had been dead for quite a while, even in 1940.
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