[Fine Binding | Donnelley | Alfred de Sauty] Tales 2023 Inventory Edges worn and rubbed

Edges worn and rubbed

the most attractive and elusive specimens

A Dirge of Empire

Intertwined gilt tooling extending from bands of spine to front and rear covers

then served as dean and professor of Ophthalmology at the American Medical College

[Fine Binding | Donnelley | Alfred de Sauty] Tales 2023 Inventory Edges worn and rubbedPoe, Edgar Allan. Tales. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. Limited to 1,000 copies. Designed and illustrated by W. A. Dwiggins. Issued as one of The Lakeside Press' "Four American Books" series. Bound by Donnelley to a design by Alfred de Sauty in full black crushed morocco with a stark red inlaid design of three descending drops of "blood" into a red pool made up of a long red band with a central "splash". Five bands to spine, with title and author