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1884117515G.P. Putnam's Sons 1884. Acceptable. 1884 G.P. Putnam's Sons Amontillado publisher signed limited edition 54 of 315 in 8 volumes of three quarter leather over marbled boards. Leather is in rough shape with light chip detached boards and spines. Text block and plates are intact with no marks. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
18401503136Richard Bentley 1840. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This bound collection of magazines contains the first UK appearances of four stories by Edgar Allan Poe including The Fall of the House of Usher the Irish Gentleman and the Little Frenchman and two others. Contemporary 3/4 tan calf and embossed floral cloth. Covers reattached with show of cloth. Calf worn and repaired. Contents recased. Plates foxed remaining contents slightly foxed. Otherwise very good clean and tight copy. iv. 643 pages. Plates by George Cruikshank Alfred Crowquill and John Leech. All the Poe stories were pirated and were printed without Poe's name or permission. The Usher story first came out in the US the prior year 1839. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Richard Bentley hardcover
1899002217London: A. & C. Black 1899 1899. STANDARD EDITION. 4 vols. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4" engraved frontis portrait plate in volume 1 John H. Ingram editor bound in fine 1/2 red calf ribbed gilt decorated spine gilt lettered black morocco spine labels marbled pastedowns and endpapers top edges gilt. Internally clean and bright inner and outer hinges fine head and foot of spines fine A VERY GOOD SET. London: A. & C. Black, 1899 unknown
18901284<p>In great condition. This is high-quality bindings and all bindings are tight. Fresh inside. One book has a inscription on front-free endpage. Volume 2.<br />Includes full works and poems. Minor stains in places on boards. Beautiful set.</p> Bigelow smith company hardcover
185886886Paris: Michel Lévy frères 1858. Fine. Michel Lévy frères Paris 1858 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire of which there were no deluxe copies. Covers and spine preserved. Modern half black morocco binding with corners second half of the 20th century. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Top edge gilt. Scattered pale foxing. Copy perfectly executed in a fine binding inspired by a contemporary binding. Michel Lévy frères hardcover
1876186426New York: W. J. Widdleton 1876. An attractively bound set of Poe's works. 4 vols octavo 187 x 125 mm. With plates throughout. Contemporary dark blue half calf spines lettered and decorated in gilt marbled sides raised bands titles and decorations to compartments gilt marbled sides edges and endpapers. A touch rubbed some gatherings proud but firm. A near-fine set. Not in BAL. hardcover
1895952F49London: Lawrence & Bullen 1895 . Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Albert Edward Sterner. A scarce complete ten volume set of the works of American literary icon Edgar Allan Poe bearing a number of full plate illustrations from Albert Edward Sterner. A scarce set of Poe's works complete in ten volumes.Including the short stories poems and literary criticism of famed American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the bright publisher's original cloth. A central figure of Romanticism in the United States Poe is now best known for his poetry and short stories particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.Edited by - and with notes from - Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry.Volume I illustrated with five plates and featuring 'Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'.Volume II with four plates and featuring 'Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'.Volume III with four plates and featuring 'Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'.Volume IV with four plates and featuring 'Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque'.Volume V with four plates and featuring 'Tales of Adventure and Exploration'.Volume VI with two plates and featuring Poe's literary criticism.Volume VII with three plates and featuring Poe's literary criticism.Volume VII with two plates and featuring Poe's literary criticism.Volume IX with two plates and featuring 'Eureka and Miscellanies'.Volume X with six plates and featuring Poe's poems.Collated complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt detailing to back strip. Bumping to back strip heads and tails with back strips lightly age toned and boards bright. Front hinge of volumes I and VII slightly strained but firmly held. Internally firmly bound but with volume I title page and following leaf detached and loosely inserted. Pages bright with light spotting to leaves facing plates. Very Good Lawrence & Bullen hardcover
18841577212024934<p><em>A striking fusion of Poe's darkest visions and French master bookbinding where literature becomes art.</em></p><p><strong>Author:</strong> Edgar Allan Poe. Translated by Charles Baudelaire.<br /><strong>Title:</strong> Histoires extraordinaires; Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires.<br /><strong>Publisher:</strong> Paris A. Quantin 1884.<br /><strong>Language:</strong> Text in French.<br /><strong>Size:</strong> 9.5 x 6 inches.<br /><strong>Pages:</strong> xxxii 382 pages; xix 410 pages<br /><strong>Binding:</strong> Two volumes bound in elegant later half red morocco leather richly executed with raised bands gilt titles and striking pictorial onlays to the spines depicting macabre scenes inspired by <em>The Murders in the Rue Morgue</em> and <em>The Pit and the Pendulum</em>. Marbled paper sides and endpapers. Original wrappers and spines bound in. Binding in near fine condition overall with light rubbing and a small discreet restoration to one corner; lower corner of <em>Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires</em> slightly scuffed as shown hinges fine under a protective removable mylar cover.<br /><strong>Content:</strong> Very good near fine with occasional scattered foxing mostly confined to the margins of some illustrations as shown. Pages are otherwise clean well-preserved and highly presentable. Complete.<br /><strong>Illustrations:</strong> First illustrated edition featuring thirteen engraved plates per volume complete. The engravings vividly interpret Poe's dark imagination and are complemented by the dramatic visual narrative of the mosaic spine decorations.<br /><br /></p><p></p><p><strong>The book: </strong>A highly desirable first illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe's <em>Histoires extraordinaires</em> and <em>Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires</em> presented here in the celebrated French translations by Charles Baudelaire whose work was instrumental in shaping Poe's reputation in Europe.</p><p>Published by A. Quantin in 1884 this edition is particularly sought after for its rich illustrative program bringing visual depth to Poe's haunting tales. This set is further elevated by a striking later mosaic binding transforming the volumes into true collector's objects.</p><p>The spine decorations are especially remarkable with finely executed pictorial inlays evoking key scenes from Poe's most iconic stories. Combined with the preservation of the original wrappers this example offers both bibliographical integrity and exceptional aesthetic appeal.</p><p>A compelling fusion of literature and craftsmanship this set stands as a powerful testament to the late nineteenth-century French tradition of artistic bookbinding.</p> A. Quantin hardcover
18846903<p>New York: Harper & Brothers 1884. First American edition with Doré's illustrations. Binding and text very good; shipping box severely damaged but present. Oversized 47 x 37 cm; Wood-engraved title vignette after Elihu Vedder and 26 wood-engraved plates after Gustave Doré. Original gray cloth over beveled boards pictorially stamped in gold and black. Remarkably well-preserved copy in strong bright binding free of fraying or wear apart from insiginifcant rubbing at corners and minor soiling on lower board. Light waterstain at lower edge of initial leaves and at lower right corner of few interior leaves more noticeable toward last leaves. Few spots on text pages. "Nevermore" plate loose but present. Plates effectlvely clear and unmarred. ORIGINAL DEDICATED SHIPPING BOX virtually unobtainable blue paper over cardboard printed with "Poe's Raven Illustrated by Doré" in a fantastical font. Box is in deplorable condition broken and repaired with 20th-century masking tape some flaps missing stained and dusty but present <br /><br />The first American printing of Doré's last work and a signal edition of Poe's signature poem with original box.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover
1895971London: J. Shiells & Co 1895. Fine Leather Bindings. Near Fine. Scarce and attractive Shiells edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Eight volumes. Contemporary half leather fir green with gilded marbled boards gilt title and decoration to the spines. Complete set of 8 volumes -- Vols. I-IV: Tales; Vol. V: Poems Essays on Poetry &c; Vol. VI: Miscellaneous Essays &c; Vols. VII - VIII: Criticisms & Reviews. Includes twenty-four tissue guarded illustration plates based on artwork by Frederick Colin Tilney and others. Bindings show a little wear to extremities; interiors are unmarked with a little marginal toning. Books measure 7"x4.75". A very nice set. . J. Shiells & Co unknown
1875147262Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1875-1881. Finely bound edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo four volumes bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands all edges marbled tissue-guarded frontispiece to Vols. I and II illustrated with etchings and headpieces in each volume folding facsimile letter in Vol. I. Volumes I and II are second editions revised. In very good condition ownership stamps to the front flyleaf. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre American Romantic writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the genre of detective fiction and contributing to the genre of science fiction only just emerging at the turn of the 20th century. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone resulting in a financially difficult life and career and his works influenced literature around the world as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe's most memorable tales include: The Black Cat The Cask of Amontillado The Gold-Bug The Pit and the Pendulum The Premature Burial and The Tell-Tale Heart. Adam and Charles Black hardcover
184530031Hardback NO DUSTJACKET ISSUED 1845 1st Edition 2nd Printing 2 VOLS IN 1Ex-Hill Library with usual markings; and the first to appear under Poe's name. USED VG Hardcover. Rubbing to the COVER edges. Bound in three-quarter leather with the owner's embossed on the front IN GOLD GILT. AEG all edges gilt . Clean & tight with some foxing. Besides the second appearance in print of Poe's "The Raven" contains a number of hand-colored plates. ; Small 4to ; 378 pages . 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. hand painted Color flower botanical plates adorn this volume! Plain endpapers FoXed have Angel BOOKPLATE attached Endpapers Frontispiece woodblock of " Entry in Ark in b/w by Seba Smith" B&w engraved plates and hand- colored floral plates Contributions also by William Cullen Bryant Felicia Hemans Whittier Washington Irving and others Rebacked Binding WORN In Rubbed CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO LEATHER Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" is the last work in the volume pg. 376. Includes works by J. G. Whittier Seba Smith on N. American Indians John B. Newman ETC THE Original Printing of Poe's Poem Raven was also published in 1845 in another Magazine earlier in same Year. Literary Emporium Dec. 1845 is the second appearance of "The Raven" though some argue it is the first both in the same year.<br /><br /><br /><br /> J.K. Wellman, New York hardcover
1900331348Boston: Jefferson Press 1900. hardcover. near fine. 10 volumes bound in 5. Black & white frontispiece in each volume; rubricated title pages Short thick 8vo recent 3/4 brown Morocco with marbled boards; top edges gilt other edges un-cut. Boston and New York: Jefferson Press no date circa 1900. Pages toned but otherwise a fine set with a bit of rubbing on the top gilt edges.<br/> <br/> Jefferson Press unknown
185029888New York: J.S. Redfield 1850 Very rare 1850 First Edition set of Poe's Works in 3 Volumes a 4th volume was added in 1856 8vo bound in 3/4 blue levant morocco with the original covers bound in with portrait of Poe and the two other frontispieces engraved many other illustrations; this edition with biographical notices by Lowell Willis and Griswold commissioned by Poe himself consisted of the Tales in Volume I the Poetry and Miscellanies in Volume II and a third volume with full title "The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Authorial Merits and Demerits with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with Marginalia Suggestions and Essays."; Vol 1 is first printing and was originally bound in brown cloth vol 2 is second with correction to "choir" page 46 also originally in brown cloth vol 3 first brown cloth pages are clean & unfoxed leather is a little chipped at ends & cracking at hinges esp. Vol 1 hinges tender but holding bookplate to first white page of each volume old bookstore catalog description tacked to first white page of Vol 1 & a magazine portrait of Poe tacked to verso of ffep; the set probably passed through the hands of the legendary Dawson's Bookshop of Los Angeles at some point as Ernest Dawson's bookplate found loose in vol 1 an overall very nice set of the first collected edition of Poe usually only found in an ex-library state or incomplete; 3 stout sm 8vos: xx 483 4pp ads; vi 7-495pp; xxxix 607pp. First Edition. Half-Leather. New York: J.S. Redfield hardcover
1896695L12London: George Routledge 1896. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". Not Stated. A very bright and smart complete six volume set of Edgar Allan Poe's writings. A beautiful set being the 'Fordham' edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. Volume I has an additional six folding facsimile plates. Volumes II and IV both have an additional plate. Therefore eight plates across all volumes and six folding facsimiles. A very bright six volume set of this 'Fordham' edition. The Fordham edition was produced to lighten Poe's dark mysterious image with the reading public. It was first issued in 1884. This is the second issue published in 1896 which enhances the appearance of the books with the gilt decorative scrolling to the spines. This second issue is the first to include the essays and memoirs by Richard Henry Stoddard. Richard Henry Stoddard was an American critic and poet. He was a major figure in New York and is arguable one of the most knowledgeable experts on Edgar Allan Poe. A very smart collection of this American writer's work. Scarce to have so many volumes together and in such a lovely condition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart with just some minor bumping to the head and tail of spines. Remnants of a bookseller's label to the front pastedown of all volumes. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper to volume II-VI 'J Walters 1913'. Internally all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are very bright. Scattered spotting to the fore edge affecting the occasional page. Otherwise just the occasional scattered spots. Very Good Indeed George Routledge hardcover
184507534THE FACTS OF M. VALDEMARS CASE in The American Review for December 1845 first edition some flaking to the fragile spine else near fine in original wraps. Quite scarce thus. The American Review paperback