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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Masque of the Red Death

Bayreuth, The Bear Press 2000.

28.5 x 19.5 cm. 20 pages. With 7 mounted color plates by Hubert Sommerauer. Blood-red oasis goatskin. Spine and front covers with parchment labels, spine title, and gilt head edges. In original slipcase. - 13th special edition from Bear Press. One of 23 numbered copies of the special edition, hand-bound in red leather. Printed by Offizin Haag/Drugulin, Leipzig, in Walter Tiemann's Orpheus on Zerkall laid paper. First edition; the text is available here for the first time in printed form. Immaculately preserved.

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