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192537512Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1925. Memorial Edition limited to 100 numbere copies 1300-1399 "set aside from the limited first edition of fifteen hundred copies" of which this is no. 1358 small 4to pp. 327 1; portrait frontispiece 14 plates facsimiles throughout; gilt-stamped black cloth over black and gilt decorative boards; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; mostly fine. Additional title page in red and black for the Memorial Edition; one leaf of publisher's advertisements at the end. BAL 16184. <br/><br/> J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
193350498NY: Tudor 1933. First Tudor Edition. Harry Clarke. 4to pp. 412. With 8 tipped-in colour plates 24 full-page black-and-white drawings title-page illustration and other vignettes. Bound in black cloth with paper label covers little dusty spine stamping all worn off front hingle little tender a good copy. Tudor unknown books
1928279090Philadelphia: Patterson & White 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An unnumbered Review Copy signed by Joseph Jackson with "Review Copy" written in his hand. Blue paper-covered board with paper title labels; some light and scattered foxing. Prospectus for the book is laid in. Very Good binding. Patterson & White unknown books
198534739Kalamazoo later Ann Arbor: Popular Reality 1985-1986. Ten tabloid format issues 34cm.; 8-12pp.; illus. throughout. Previous mail folds some splitting and light wear along extremities from handling else a Very Good collection. Publication sequence as follows: Nos. 5-11 13-15. Publishing organ of the Kalamazoo / Ann Arbor anarchist group known as the Shimo Underground Network. The present collection includes early contributions by noted anarchist Bob Black including the anti-feminist essay "Feminism As Fascism" as well as material pertaining to the parody religion the Church of the SubGenius. Popular Reality unknown books
193455756Richmond VA: Press of The Dietz Printing Co. Publishers 1934. No. 79 of 500 copies. Frontispiece portrait. 120 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Brown buckram. Head of spine lightly rubbed top edge slightly darkened else Fine in chipped dust jacket. No. 79 of 500 copies. Frontispiece portrait. 120 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Signed. Signed by Jackson and Whitty. BAL v.7 151 Press of The Dietz Printing Co. Publishers unknown books
184948639Philadelphia: SartainÕs Magazine 1849. While Poe is not mentioned in the Index this contains the first appearance of PoeÕs poem A Valentine page 173 and an early if not the first appearance of LongfellowÕs poem Sand in the Desert of an Hour-Glass. Hardcover. Very good-/No jacket issued. Philadelphia: SartainÕs Magazine 1849. While Poe is not mentioned in the Index this contains the first appearance of PoeÕs poem A Valentine page 173 and an early if not the first appearance of LongfellowÕs poem Sand in the Desert of an Hour-Glass. Numerous b/w illustrations and musical notations. 417 1 ad pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Half black leather over pebbled cloth covered boards. Gilt ruled and tooled compartments. Binding lightly worn; light to moderate foxing throughout. A very nice copy. Very good-/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. SartainÕs Magazine hardcover books
184948572Philadelphia: SartainÕs 1849. Contains the first appearance of PoeÕs poem The Bells. Hardcover. Very good-/No jacket issued. The Bells. Philadelphia: SartainÕs 1849. Contains the first appearance of PoeÕs poem The Bells. Color illustration ÒThe SerenadeÓ numerous b/w illustrations and musical notations. One illustration leaf seems to have been removed leaving remnants at interior margin. 390 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Half black leather over pebbled cloth covered boards. Gilt ruled and tooled compartments. Binding lightly worn; scattered foxing; closed tear to engraving ÒThe Independent Voter.Ó A very nice copy. Very good-/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. SartainÕs hardcover books
1904012231NY: P. F. Collier 1904. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Complete 5 volume set. Uniform black cloth stamped in grey and green. Frontsipiece in color after a painting by Arthur E. Beecher. Solid clean copies. No names inscriptions or bookplates. P. F. Collier hardcover books
184637527Philadelphia: George R. Graham & Co 1846. 2 volumes in 1 large 8vo; engraved frontispiece illustrations and 30 plates some colored; contemporary black morocco over black cloth gilt lettering on spine shelf wear; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; some foxing. Edgar Allan Poe was the magazine's chief literary editor and these two volumes include three of his Marginalia and his "Philosophy of Composition". Also published here are works by Park Benjamin and Henry Longfellow. <br/><br/> George R. Graham & Co hardcover books
199150449New York: South Street Seaport Museum 1991. Edition limited to 150 copies signed by DePol; 8vo pp. 6 22 4; title page printed in red and black 8 wood engravings by DePol who also designed the patterned endpapers; original black cloth with printed red wraparound label on spine; fine. Designed and printed at Bowne & Co. Stationers by Barbara Henry and Lissa Dodington. <br/><br/> South Street Seaport Museum hardcover books
191537497St. Louis MO: William K. Bixby 1915. Edition limited to 200 inscribed by the publisher of which this is an unnumbered copy 8vo pp. 26; 5 fold-out facsimile letters; white vegetable vellum boards soiled gilt cover title shelf wear corners bumped; ex-Hill Library with usual markings interior mostly fine printed on paper watermarked "Van Gelder Zonen Holland". With an essay on Poe's relationships with these correspondents. Reprinted from "The Fourteenth Year Book 1915" of the Bibliophile Society. BAL 16177. <br/><br/> William K. Bixby hardcover books
1919010365BTLos Angeles: E. A. Brininstool. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1919. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in brown cloth boards with gilt on spine original wraps bound in. Rubbed and bumped corners light soil on boards. Small hole in first free endpaper some chips and toning. Tipped in inside the front wrap is a printed poem by E. A. Brininstool and tipped onto the rear pastedown is a catalog description of the book. Bookplate of Reverend Nathaniel S. Thomas on front pastedown. Inscribed by the publisher E. A. Brininstool to Reverend Thomas on the limitation page. Originally published in London's World Wide Magazine in 1919 this 1923 limited edition numbered 51/250 copies was privately printed by E. A. Brininstool. Howes P 430. Six-Guns 1743.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 15 pp . E. A. Brininstool hardcover books
198547288New York: The Limited Editions Club 1985. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by Raphael Soyer and Alice Neel; thin folio pp. 32; plates of Alice Neel's original etchings paintings and drawings printed at the Anthoesen Press; endpapers lightly spotted near fine in maroon leather-backed marbled boards gilt-lettered spine publisher's slipcase some fading. Monthly newsletter laid in. <br/><br/> The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1849289880Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey 1849. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. With the first printing of Edgar Allen Poe's poem Mellonta Tauta in the 1849 February issue p. 133. Also with a hoax consisting of a fraudulent letter with a facsimile of Poe's signature in the 1849 December issue p. 417 and The Lady Hubbard p. 419. From the Poe Bibliography "in the issue of December 1849 a hoax was perpetrated at the late Poe's expense. There appears a letter dated April 1 1848 to which a facsimile of Poe's autograph is affixed. In this letter he is expressing the true purpose of poetry." Heartman and Canny 199. Complete with twelve issues; with the engraved general title page hand colored title page for Vol. 39 and 12 hand colored fashion plates at the start of each monthly issue. Rebound in brown cloth with the remnants of the leather label laid down. Heartman and Canny Poe Bibliography 199-201. Very Good binding. Louis A. Godey unknown books
1928022289Paris: Editions Narcisse 1928. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. Limited to 300 copies the present copy is number 111 on Holland van gelder zonen paper. 50pp. With an introduction by Arthur Symonds illustrated by Alastair with five illustrations tipped-in onto a silver foil leaf with tissue guards present. While this cop was printed in Paris the text is in English. Bound in original publisher's stiff paper wraps printed in red and black in original glassine which has only light wear some toning to edges occasional spots of foxing but mostly to endpapers. A very nice copy. Editions Narcisse unknown books
1835WRCLIT81345Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1835. x217-292pp. Small octavo. Publisher's blindstamped red roan a.e.g. Eight engraved plates and frontis portrait. Rebacked at an early date with cloth original roan backstrip laid down cloth reinforcement to inner hinges fore-tips worn usual offsetting to the patterned endsheets; internally about very good. First edition. Of significance for the first book publication of Poe's "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" in company with Irving's "An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron" which Heartman suggests was thematically influential on Poe's "William Wilson." Other contributors include Simms Sigourney and Paulding. THOMPSON p.126. HEARTMAN & CANNY pp.36-7. BAL 16126 10146 etc. Carey & Hart hardcover books
19392307327Baltimore: Wirth 1939. Facsimile. Facsimile. Very Good. Half inch tear and small tear on rear wrapper edge. 1939 Small Softcover. 40 pp. Facsimile of original. Likely the "typeface facsimile printed by Wirth Baltimore 1939. This facsimile has no identifying marks or imprint. According to a statement by Ferdinand F. Wirth provided on October 7 1977 to Alexander G. Rose of the Poe Society of Baltimore the edition was 1500 copies." "The poems many of which had a theme of youth were inspired in part by the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The largest inspiration on Poe however came from the work of Lord Byron; the character of the title poem "Tamerlane" has a daughter named "Ada" named after Byron's own daughter Ada Lovelace. Poe admired Byron both for his poetry and for his rebellious personality. John Allan blamed Poe's interest in Byron for his licentiousness. Some biographers suggest that Poe's wandering to Boston and joining the Army represent a need to live like an outcast inspired by Byron. The title poem "Tamerlane" depicts a dying conqueror who regrets leaving his childhood sweetheart and his home to pursue his ambitions. In its original form "Tamerlane" based on the historical Timur was 406 lines. The choice of an eastern character was unusual for a westerner at the time though Byron Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Thomas Moore and others had written other Orientalist works. Autobiographical overtones suggest Poe based the poem on the loss of his own early love Sarah Elmira Royster or of his birth mother Eliza Poe. The poem may also mirror Poe's relationship with his foster father John Allan; similar to Poe Tamerlane is of uncertain parentage with a "feigned name". The "other poems" which Poe admitted "perhaps savour too much of egotism; but they were written by one too young to have any knowledge of the world but from his own breast". These poems present the poet as solitary figure who was faced some unnamed transforming childhood event. Poe adopted some of the common themes of the day including imagery of heavenly bliss and angelic beauty. He steps away from the typical use of didacticism of the time and instead focuses on psychological reverie and symbolist aesthetics beginning his lifelong poetic refusal to write for the masses. Poe would continue to revisit themes of death beauty love and pride in his later works. He would later rewrite one poem "Imitation" as "A Dream Within a Dream" and use images from "Evening Star" in "Ulalume". [Wirth] unknown books
1842WB15013Philadelphia: George Graham 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Thick 8vo. Contemporary ¾ leather and marbled paper over boards. Issues 21&22. 356pp & 354pp. Binding worn; preliminaries loose otherwise a very good copy. Contains the classic Edgar Allan Poe story The Mask of the Red Death. Packed with literary contributions essays wood-engravings and other goodies. <br/><br/> George Graham hardcover books
1845RPOEAME00RJBGeorge H. Colton 1845. Very Good. Poe Edgar Allen et al. The American Review : A Whig Journal Volume II 2 1845. New York: George H. Colton 1845. 668pp. Indexed. 8vo. Leather with gilt stamping to spine. Book condition: Very good with rubbing to joints and edges. A few light scuffs on covers. Topics and/or contributors include John Jay bear hunting whaling Audubon Texas Mexico heraldry and tobacco. Also includes 'Eulalie' by Poe. George H. Colton hardcover books
184537495New York: J.K. Wellman 1845. 2 volumes in 1 8vo pp. 378; 14 steel engraved plates and hand-colored botanical lithographs; contemporary red gilt and blind-tooled cloth shelf wear hinge repair; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; early bookseller's description to front pastedown endpaper. The first two of four volumes of an 18th century American gift book. Includes an early printing of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" pp. 376-378. Other featured authors include Washington Irving and John Whittier. Not in BAL Thompson or Faxon. <br/><br/> J.K. Wellman hardcover books
20138630Loket Czech Republic: Jarmila Jelena Sobota 2013. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Archival Box. Tight bright and unmarred. “Bradel” binding structure covered with dark green goatskin onlay of laser-cut leather skull gilt lettering and decorative elements; archival box in leather and marbled paper with magnetic 'bug' that can crawl on the cover. Appox. 3x3". 95pp. <br/><br/>The story involves cryptography with a detailed description of a method for solving a simple substitution cipher using letter frequencies. The cryptogram is: <br /> 53‡‡†3056;48264‡.4‡;806;48†8 <br /> ¶6085;1‡;:‡8†83885†;46;8896 <br /> ;8‡;485;5†2:‡;495625—48 <br /> ¶8;4069285;6†84‡‡;1‡9;48081;8:8‡ <br /> 1;48†85;4485†52880681‡9;48;88;4 <br /> ‡34;484‡;161;:188;‡; <br />The decoded message is: <br /> A good glass in the bishop's hostel in the devil's seat <br /> forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes northeast and by north <br /> main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the left eye of the death's-head <br /> a bee line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out. <br />Signed by Jarmila Sobota. Jarmila Jelena Sobota hardcover books
199119052005San Francisco: The Arion Press 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Arakawa. No. 95 of 276 copies folio size 119 pp. signed by Arakawa. "Eureka" a substantial essay on the nature of the universe is a later work by Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 published a year before he died. Best known for his Gothic and Romantic short stories and poems especially "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" Poe named this work a "prose poem" and he brings poetic sensibilities to his intuitive search for truth in the cosmos. The text has been interpreted numerous ways partly because Poe's seriousness in the essay has been questioned by some due for example to his jocular treatment of historical figures.<br/><br/>Illustrating this Arion Press edition is Japanese artist and architect Arakawa 1936-2010 who takes excerpts of the text and overlays geometric symbols and patterns simultaneously clarifying and obfuscating meaning.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full light brown cloth grey wraparound ruled borders orange and grey lettering on the both boards and spine fore- and bottom edges uncut photo-engravings based on drawings on mylar by Arakawa in grey and black throughout; Walbaum and handset Bodoni Book types Waterford paper folio size 13.75" by 10" pagination: i-ii iii-ix x 1-4 5-107 108 1 colophon one of 276 copies this number 95 signed by Arakawa on the colophon. With original subscriber's invoice one sheet with two folds for mailing tucked in a clear plastic sleeve.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine with clean boards straight corners with no rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; slight discolouration to the paste-down endpapers from the linen sewing tapes else fine. The subscriber's invoice is fine clean and without wear.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Arion Press Catalogue no. 35.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â Please note that this is an unusually large and heavy book therefore additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
198521866New York: Limited Editions Club 1985. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Fine in fine sued lined slipcase with front cover gilt lettered leather label. Neel Alice. 32 pages. 39 x 28 cm. Limited edition one of 1500 copies this copy not numbered signed by Raphael Soyer in pencil. Designed by Ben Shiff printed at the Anthoesen Press with mould-made paper by The Cartiere Enrico Magnani. With the LEC Club Letter laid-in and as noted in the latter "Alice Neel died soon after she selected the images which would illuminate Poe's tale." The last image of a skeletal head is a self portrait. NEWMAN & WICHE 542. Bright fresh copy. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
18491609025Godey 1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick quarto black morocco. Boards with decorative gilt designs. Spine replaced with gilt lettering. Clean internally. A very good sound copy. Contains first appearance of Poe's Mellonta Tauta. Godey hardcover books
190288569NY:: Fred De Fau & Company. Very Good. 1902. Hardcover. B000VKJIG6 . Complete in ten volumes. Illustrated. Limited edition: this set is number 645 of 1000. Moderate shelf wear and aging short tears to the cloth at the spine ends of a few of the volumes else all volumes are very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spines. No dust jackets. . Fred De Fau & Company, hardcover books
