POE Edgar Allan - The Golden Beetle / Tales of the Golden Horseshoe (1st edition)

A novella by Edgar Allan Poe, set on Sullivan's Island (South Carolina), dealing with the solving of an encrypted message and the search for buried treasure. The story was first published in the pages of Philadelphia's Dollar Newspaper in June 1843, after Poe won a contest announced by the newspaper, receiving a prize of $100.

Edition I - of the "Golden Horseshoe" series of stories. At the end of the booklet humorous drawings and an excerpt from the novel "The Lady of Spades".

Issued by Silesia Publishing House, Katowice 1958.
Format: 165 x 120 mm, 56 pages.

Piece in very nice condition, with tiny name stamps at the beginning and at the end.