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Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Edgar Allan Poe

First published 1902
Publisher Grant Richards
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 367
Price 1/-

    22 stories
  • Published in 1902 as The World's Classics, volume XXI. WorldCat library records apparently report as 1902 publishers both Grant Richards and Oxford University Press.
  • As of 2017-10-26: HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog records above) provides full view of the 1st printing (Grant Richards, 1902) and its 1st and 3rd reprints (H. Frowde, 1903 and 1910). The 1903 alone is correctly catalogued, however, as Frowde [1903], 367pp, 16cm.
  • First published by Wordsworth Editions in 1993 as one of the Wordsworth Classics series.

    First edition as The World's Classics, XXI (reprinted thus by H. Frowde 1903, 1906, 1910 --from 1910 printing viewed at HathiTrust)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- first printed page shows "The World's Classics", "XXI", "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe", "I", "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" -- second printed page lists "The World's Classics", 1 to 27, prices 1/- and 2/- in two formats -- title page states "Grant Richard" (no 's') -- stories span p[1]-367; p367 closes "The End", footer "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. // Edinburgh & London" -- no illustrations

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 1928 Oxford University Press Hardcover Collection 367
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 1985 Chancellor Press Hardcover Collection Graham Ward 367
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 2003 Collector's Library Hardcover Collection 456
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 2008 Wordsworth Editions Trade Paperback Collection xxv+287
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Cover 2009 Collector's Library Hardcover Collection 455