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Edgar Allan Poe
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
with illustrations by Harry Clarke
Tudor Publishing Company, 1933

Halloween is coming. Time for some spooky reading such as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, or perhaps Ray Bradbury. Maybe it’s time to revisit Frankenstein, Dracula, or The Invisible Man to see how they are doing? Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” may be in order for an extra chill, as when the Red Death is unmasked at a crazy banquet:

“Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped an unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask, which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.”

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Located in downtown Palo Alto, Bell’s has served the Stanford University and Silicon Valley communities, providing new, used, and rare books since 1935. We are the oldest and only bookstore located in the downtown area.

Give us a call at (650) 323-7822 with any questions.

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  • We are happy to provide personalized gift shopping via phone or in person.
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  • 350,000 titles from which to choose!

Give us a call at (650) 323-7822 with any questions.

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Our century-old storefront houses 350,000 volumes on two floors. Spilling over with hardcover and quality paperback books in 500 subject categories, there is, quite literally, something for everyone at Bell’s: 

Fine bindings, large format art books, 19th Century treasures, second-hand reading copies of classics at affordable prices, children’s picture books, signed first editions, technical books, philosophy, an entire history room with an expanding Medieval section, handsome sets, ornamental horticulture, thousands of volumes of poetry, literature, architecture, religion, natural history and more…
 
We would love to help you build a collection of your own.

Bell’s purchases fine books and private collections.