Tales of Suspense & Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Wilkie Collins, Tales of Suspense. London: The Folio Society, 1954. First printing thus. Edited by Robert Ashley and Herbert van Thal, lithographs by Anne Scott. 226 × 149 × 27 mm. Pp. [i–viii], [1] 2–255 [256]: [8] leaves of two-colour plates (facing pp. 16, 33, 48, 112, 145, 176, 224 and 241). Type: Times New Roman with Bodoni, Bodoni Ultra italic and Thorne Shaded for display. Printed by Butler and Tanner, the lithographs by the Curwen Press. Bound by Butler and Tanner in full black cloth with a design in silver. White dust-jacket printed in brown and black. In addition to the black and brown plates, the title-spread is printed in black and brown, with an illustration by Scott. A very good book showing only light bumping to two corners, offsetting to endpapers and a little marking left behind on FFEP after a pencilled message was erased, else fine. In a very good dust wrapper showing a handful of foxing spots, light sunning to spine and a few very small nibbles to extremities.

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Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London: The Folio Society, 1957. First printing thus. Edited by Herbert van Thal, monotypes by Michael Ayrton. 228 × 151 × 29 mm. Pp. [i–vii] viii–xiii [xiv], [1] 2–302. Type: Times New Roman. Printed and bound by Richard Clay. Full black canvas decorated in silver. White dust-jacket printed in pink and black. There are ten full-page illustrations in the text, printed from relief blocks. A very good book with a light bump to upper spine tip, and a spot or two of foxing to edges and prelims. In like dust wrapper that shows some nibbling to extremities, including a little loss to spine tips and slight sunning to spine.