Sugar Land, TX: Arm & Hammer Press, 2004. 2 1/4 x 2 1/2". LIMITED EDITION of 65 copies, this being #50. Black cloth over boards, gilt decoration stamped on cover, paper label on spine, frontispiece illustration of Poe, in fine condition.

"The Oval Portrait" is a short horrow story written by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), first published in 1842. One of his shortest stories, it is about the sinister happenings encompassing a portrait in a chateau.