 Author Name: POE, EDGAR ALLAN; DESIGNS BY RENE CLARK.
Title: THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM.
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: Signed, Limited Edition
Publisher: New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930.
Seller ID: 2938
Signed by Rene Clarke, and numbered 900 of 1500. One of Poe's early works and longest novel original published in Southern Literary Messenger 1837, by Harper in 1838. Advised in his early career that his short stories were not profitable and the genre of travel and adventure narratives was; Poe told this story in the first person as though based on a journal. The adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, a young New England man who stows away on the American Whaling Ship Grampus, on route to the South Seas. A tale of mutiny, shipwreck, capture, suffering, South Sea islands, incredible adventure and discovery. Although set in the character of a sea adventure, Poe immerses the story and characters in his macabre imagination of mysterious fantasy and horror. Illustrated with woodcuts by Rene Clarke. Black boards, 1/4 tan spine, toned, mild rubbing of extremities. Firmly bound, no inscriptions or writing. 267 pp, 4 to. Lacking slipcase.
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