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1846poe46London: Wiley & Putnam. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Spine faded. Some foxing. 1846. First UK Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". 228pp. Includes 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and The Murders in the Rue Morgue' &c. . Wiley & Putnam hardcover
1845111538New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. Rare first edition in book form of Poe's famed work. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards gilt titles to the spine raised bands. In very good condition with some light foxing and usual wear. BAL 16147. The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845 the poem is often noted for its musicality stylized language and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover often identified as being a student is lamenting the loss of his love Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk mythological religious and classical references. Biographer Hervey Allen: The most important volume of poetry that had been issued up to that time in America. In this little volume the weary wayworn wanderer had successfully reached his own native shore in the realm of imagination" Grolier 100 American 56. Poe considered "The Raven" to be his finest poem--indeed he was quoted as saying it was the finest poem ever written. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
1884118042New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1884. The Amontillado edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo 8 volumes bound in full morocco by P.B. Sanford with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands double gilt ruling to the panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume by R. Swain Gifford Frederick Church and others etched engraved vignettes to the title pages. One of 315 numbered copies signed and dated by the publisher on the limitation leaf of each volume this is number 290. In fine condition. Rare and desirable. 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. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1884118042New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1884. The Amontillado edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo 8 volumes bound in full morocco by P.B. Sanford with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands double gilt ruling to the panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume by R. Swain Gifford Frederick Church and others etched engraved vignettes to the title pages. One of 315 numbered copies signed and dated by the publisher on the limitation leaf of each volume this is number 290. In fine condition. Rare and desirable. 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. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown
18508535New York: J.S. Redfield 1850. First Editions. First Printings with final page of ads in Vol.1 printing "Was published on the First of April" beneath American Drawing-Book and in Vol.2 there is no "r" in "choir" on p.46 third stanza line 1. Two 12mo. volumes 19.75cm; Blanck's A binding in publisher's blue cloth spines blind-stamped with simple rules with gilt-stamped rules between volume number and title on spines and covers with embossed corner and centerpieces within a triple blind-ruled frame; peach endpapers; xxii1-483484 4pp ads with inserted tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece; vi7-495496-498pp. In Vol.1 the first leaf a blank is not excised as is found in some copies. Both volumes bear the early ink signature of Samuel E. Perkins of Bangor Maine a druggist with his circular business label on preliminary blank Vol.1 and front pastedown Vol.2. Some very mild softening to spine ends spines gently sunned with sprinkled foxing to text; Vol.1 slightly over-opened at gutter following front endpaper with some light rubbing to covers on Vol.2; a uniformly Near Fine set without repair with the gilt bright and unrubbed.<br /> <br /> The first collected edition of Poe's works part of what would become a four-volume set with the third published later in 1850 and the fourth volume appearing in 1856. These volumes were published roughly six months after Poe's death; Volume I contains biographical matter and a notice of Poe's death followed by his Tales. Considerable material appears here for the first time in book form including "The Balloon-Hoax" "Mellonta Tauta" "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" and "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall sic. Uncommon in the first printings particularly in matched condition. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. BAL 16158; Sabin 63570. 8535. J.S. Redfield unknown
184862003New York: Geo. P. Putnam Of Late Firm of "Wiley & Putnam" 155 Broadway 1848. First edition of the last book by Poe published in his lifetime. 12mo. 143 pp. 16-page publisher's catalogue at rear. BAL 16153. Binding A no review of Eureka in the ads. Front endpaper replaced faint signs of bookplate removal from front pastedown rather persistent foxing through the text; still a very good copy the cloth quite clean and bright. Original black cloth joints with several short splits with some professional repair a little wear to spine ends including a small chip at the head gilt spine title. Housed in a custom brown quarter-morocco and cloth slipcase with chemise gilt spine title. 9770. <br/><br/> Geo. P. Putnam, Of Late Firm of "Wiley & Putnam," 155 Broadway hardcover books
184643625London: Short & Co 1846. <p>Poe Edgar Allan 1809-49. Mesmerism "in articulo mortis." An astounding & horrifying narrative shewing the extraordinary power of mesmerism in arresting the progress of death. 16pp. London: Short & Co. 1846. 213 x 138 mm. Without wrappers as issued; preserved in a cloth folding case. Light toning but a fine copy. Bookplate of American book collector Edward Hubert Litchfield 1879-1949.</p> <p> First Separate Edition of Poe's gruesome short story on the occult "powers" of mesmerism originally published under the title "The facts in the case of M. Valdemar" in The American Whig Review of December 1845. "Poe plays with the idea that a dying person may be so imbued with magnetic fluid by a mesmerist that he can remain although dead in a kind of suspended death for months until released by the mesmerist—at which point his body immediately turns into a pile of stinking putrid slime. Taking it to be factual people seriously debated whether such a horrifying use of mesmerism was possible and condemned it on the assumption that it was" Waterfield Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis p. 146. "Mesmerism ‘in articulo mortis'" was the last of three mesmeric tales Poe wrote in 1844 and 1845; although these works "were essentially literary it is also significant that these works were written in the style of scientific texts . . . Although Poe's intentions remain somewhat ambiguous leading some critics to suggest that he may have actually attempted to perpetrate a literary hoax it is important to acknowledge that these works were published and received as legitimate contributions to the field of science and thus they offer insight into the assumptions and expectations of the scientific community" Enns p. 65. Enns "Mesmerism and the electric age: From Poe to Edison" in Willis & Wynne eds. Victorian Literary Mesmerism pp. 61-82. Heartman & Canny A Bibliography of the First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe p. 111. </p> . Short & Co unknown books
18411610315George R. Graham 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. These stories are the first appearances of Poe's works: The Murders in the Rue Morgue A Descent into the Malstrom The islands of the Fay The Coloquy of Monos and Una Never Bet the Devil Your Head Israfel. In Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. Large thick quarto full maroon calf. Publisher's deluxe binding. Covers with decorative borders stamped in gilt and blind. Gilt-decorated turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments. All edges gilt. Plate tissues moderately foxed else contents especially clean and fresh. A beautiful very good plus copy. Previous owner's small bookplate attached to front paste-down rear cover slightly separating at bottom. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. George R. Graham hardcover books
18411610315George R. Graham 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. These stories are the first appearances of Poe's works: The Murders in the Rue Morgue A Descent into the Malstrom The islands of the Fay The Coloquy of Monos and Una Never Bet the Devil Your Head Israfel. In Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. Large thick quarto full maroon calf. Publisher's deluxe binding. Covers with decorative borders stamped in gilt and blind. Gilt-decorated turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments. All edges gilt. Plate tissues moderately foxed else contents especially clean and fresh. A beautiful very good plus copy. Previous owner's small bookplate attached to front paste-down rear cover slightly separating at bottom. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. George R. Graham hardcover
184578226New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The first printing of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe 1809-49. Among the most famous works in American literature the poem tells of a raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover tracing the man's slow descent into madness. It appears anonymously on p.143-145 as "by ——— Quarles." The first appearance of "The Raven" is something of a bibliographical dispute. Heartman and Canny consider this form to be the first printing maintaining that the January 29 1845 appearance in The Evening Mirror is not the first. The American Review had announced that "No. II will bear date Feb. 1845 but will be issued early in January" thus unless the publishers were unable to issue the work by the date promised the present version clearly predates the late January appearance in The Evening Mirror. Octavo: ii iv 656 pp. with a frontispiece portrait of Henry Clay. This volume contains other work by Poe including the first printing of "Some Words with a Mummy" p.363 as well as "Valley of Unrest" p.392 and "The City in the Sea" p.393. Original calf binding with black morocco spine labels gilt-stamped titles and decorations four raised bands blind-stamped borders and marbled endpapers. Scattered light foxing to the contents with a previous owner's pencil inscription to a prefatory blank leaf. The bookplate of American botanist and horticulturalist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick appears on the front pastedown. Some general edgewear more so to the corners and tips with a bit of rubbing along the joints; otherwise very good. Heartman and Canny p.100; Tane 177. Wiley and Putnam hardcover
1843101067Boston: Leland and Whiting 1843. 4to. 3 engraved plates in no. 2 plates to nos. 1 & 3 in facsimile. 1-48; 49-96; 97-144 pp. Later 19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards no. 1 rear wrapper and no. 2 wrappers bound-in upper portion of no. 2 front wrapper filled in no. 1 front wrapper in facsimile; covers lightly rubbed and faded a few small tape repairs light staining to margins of no. 2 foxing and toning to no. 3. The complete run of this short-lived periodical edited by James Russell Lowell with contributions by Poe in each volume including the first printings of "The Tell-Tale Heart" no. 1 pp. 29-31 and "Notes Upon English Verse" no. 3 p. 102-112. Other contributions include short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Hall of Fantasy" and "The Birthmark" and poems by Jones Very John Greenleaf Whittier Elizabeth Barrett Browning and James Russell Lowell. "The Tell-Tale Heart" was first rejected by the Boston Miscellany with the editor's request that "if Mr. Poe would condescend to furnish more quiet articles he would be a most desirable correspondent." Lowell accepted the story for the first number of The Pioneer. "Before its demise Poe had contributed at Lowell's invitation to each number. For these contributions he was never paid" Heartman & Canny. PROVENANCE: Richardson book-plate ms notes on comparable copies 1900-05 on front pastedownREFERENCE: Heartman & Canny p. 240 Leland and Whiting hardcover
1919287853London: Harrap 1919. Limited. hardcover. fine. Clarke Harry. Illustrated by Harry Clarke with 24 full page illustrations with tissue guards and many incredible black and white head and tail pieces. 383 pages bound in full vellum with gilt decoration on cover gilt spine lettering top edge gilt uncut edges with many pages unopened. London: George Harrap 1919. A beautiful clean copy. Fine.<br/><br/> Limited Deluxe Edition. Number 146 of only 170 copies signed and numbered on the limitation page by Harry Clarke.<br/><br/> Harrap unknown books
1845191176New York: Wiley and Putnam February but January 1845. And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor / Shall be lifted - nevermore! First appearance of "The Raven" pp. 143-5 appearing in the second number under the pseudonym "by --- Quarles". This bound volume of the American Review's initial six numbers is a presentation copy inscribed by the editor on the first blank "Col. Webb Ed. Courier & Enquirer from the Editor G. H. Colton". George Hooker Colton 1818-1847 paid Poe "not over $20" for "The Raven" which is introduced by Colton's brief essay on poetic metre. Colton recited the poem to staff "in his ramshackle Nassau Street office before yet it had gone into type; and as he closed with oratorical effect the last refrain he declared with an emphasis that shook the whole mass of his flaxen locks - 'that is amazing - amazing!'" Thomas p. 484. Colton presented this volume to General James Watson Webb 1802-1884 whose own paper Courier & Enquirer once had the largest circulation in the nation. "The Raven" was immediately successful appealing to both the popular and critical taste of its day and it was reprinted at least ten times within a month. The Evening Mirror issue of 29 January announced that they were reprinting the poem in advance of the February issue of the American Review; however the American Review itself announced that the February number would in fact be issued in early January. Richard Gimbel notes that the Evening Mirror text was slightly corrected from the first setting of type seen in the American Review and introduces an obvious typographical error. The April issue further includes the first appearance in print of Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy" pp. 363-70 and his revised versions of "The City in the Sea" and "The Valley of Unrest" pp. 392-3. Nos I-VI bound in single octavo volume 219 x 131 mm. Contemporary black half morocco rebacked to style red spine label and gilt and blind rules to compartments blind roll to sides and corners marbled sides and endpapers. Ownership signature on title page. Covers a little rubbed light wear and refurbishment to edges inner hinges reinforced occasional foxing and sticky notes to contents. A very good copy. Heartman & Canny pp. 100-1. Richard Gimbel "Quoth the Raven" a catalogue of the exhibition The Yale University Library Gazette April 1959 Vol. 33 No. 4 pp. 139-89. unknown
190730029HBDJ 1907 1ST LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies Stated on Last PG NF/NEAR FINE First Quarto Photogravure Edition .Limited Edition of 1000 copies printed on Arches handmade paper. Book Condition: Very Good PAGES EDGES ARE UNTRIMMED .IN PLAIN BROWN DUSTJACKET WITH TITLE & AUTHOR IS BLACK WITH RED DECORATION publishers SLIPCASE OPEN AT BOTH ENDS Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Gilt top. In original dust jacket and OPEN END slipcase. Lightest wear only to volume and dust jacket. Slipcase in good- condition. Very Scarce. 8 1/4 X 10 1/4 IN. narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe & Philosophy of Composition an essay written by Poe that elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. RAVEN often noted for its musicality stylized language and supernatural atmosphere. Philosophy of Composition" an essay written by Poe that elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well.<br /> PAUL ELDER SAN FRANCISCO NEW YORK PRINTED On Arches Handmade Paper hardcover
19438614Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company / Tower Books 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; dark sage green paper-covered boards with titling and publisher's logo stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 89-3173pp. Inscribed by Karloff on the front endpaper: "To Don / with every good wish / Boris Karloff / Jan 5/44." Some external wear shallow chipping to crown hint of sunning to spine with some mild bubbling to paper and lower front cover offsetting and some mild discoloration to endpapers and the usual tanning to the text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is edgeworn with corresponding tears and creasing to upper spine panel a few tiny nick and tears and a small splash mark to upper front flap; Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> Offered together with a three-page ALS from Karloff to Dr. E.M. Sheare the publisher of this volume composed in black pen on three sheets of Arsenic and Old Lace letterhead measuring ca.8.5" x 11" and dated about five months prior to publication May 20 1943; 49 lines 280 words signed "as ever Boris." Two old folds from mailing smoothed out some very subtle toning to extremities else Fine together with the original mailing envelope. All housed in a custom quarter-morocco drop-backed clamshell case. <br /> <br /> Scarce first printing of this cheaply-manufactured wartime anthology of "terror stories" all selected by Karloff who has written a generous six-page introduction. The contents include contributions by Bram Stoker "The Judge's House" Ambrose Bierce "The Damned Thing" William Faulkner "The Hound" Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" Algernon Blackwood "The Willows" and Oliver Onions "The Beckoning Fair One" among others. The letter to his editor is particularly insightful showing Karloff's strong opinions regarding what merited inclusion: "I am quite firm against Dunsany's "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow." It is beautiful and imaginative and all that but it no in sic sense fits our patterns.For reasons of space I think we could omit I Dunsany II Woman at Seven Brothers III Shipment or Mute Fate or IV Breakdown / which is interesting but not terror. Hugh Binson's tale I consider a must also The Waxwork - I've had three invitations to dinner without points on the telling of that one! I am enclosing the amended list for your consideration. By all means "The Beckoning Fair One" should be in last place in the book on the score of length and excellence." Uncommon inscribed with a lengthy contemporary ALS. 8614. The World Publishing Company / Tower Books unknown
19028550New York. George D. Sproul Company. 1902. Lavishly bound in Publisher's Deluxe custom 3/4 burgundy crushed morocco and marbled boards. Gilt-tooled spine compartments with fleural motifs.Gilt-tooled raised bands. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. 8vo. 5.5" x .25". The Monticello Edition. This Edition Limited to only 1000 numbered sets of which this is #330. Illustrated throughout with delightful tissue-guarded monochrome plates Editied by renowned Poe scholar James A. Harrison the Monticello Edition of Poe's Works is one of the scarcest of early compilations with no complete set appearing at auction in more than thirty years.The 17 Volumes are comprised of: Tales Poems Biography Literary Criticism Essays Miscellanies Literati Autography Marginalia Eureka and Letters. Spines delicately and evenly sunned with first 2 volumes slightly less so. A number of volumes uncut. A Fine greatly appealing very rare set. George D. Sproul Company. hardcover books
19028550<p>New York. George D. Sproul Company. 1902. Lavishly bound in Publisher's Deluxe custom 3/4 burgundy crushed morocco and marbled boards. Gilt-tooled spine compartments with fleural motifs.Gilt-tooled raised bands. Marbled endsheets. t.e.g. 8vo. 5.5" x .25". The Monticello Edition. This Edition Limited to only 1000 numbered sets of which this is #330. Illustrated throughout with delightful tissue-guarded monochrome plates Editied by renowned Poe scholar James A. Harrison the Monticello Edition of Poe's Works is one of the scarcest of early compilations with no complete set appearing at auction in more than thirty years.The 17 Volumes are comprised of: Tales Poems Biography Literary Criticism Essays Miscellanies Literati Autography Marginalia Eureka and Letters. Spines delicately and evenly sunned with first 2 volumes slightly less so. A number of volumes uncut. A Fine greatly appealing very rare set.</p> George D. Sproul Company. hardcover
1856167942Paris: Michel Lévy Frères 1856-58. The original three Baudelaire translations First editions. Baudelaire's famous prose translations of Poe began with these three works and were not continued for another seven years. Though Poe's national image was long a matter of controversy in continental Europe his reputation was immediately established through the translations of Baudelaire who "forever blended the style form and spirit of Poe with the literature of France" Harner. For Baudelaire "Poe was an alter-ego a long-lost brother a partner in crime and a writer in whom he could confide his sacred fury. Of the twelve volumes of Baudelaire's complete works five are devoted to his brilliant translations of Poe" Foye p. 75. The project "was not far different from that of an impassioned believer translating the New Testament" Arthur Ransome p. 225 and it left an indelible mark on the careers of both men. According to Valéry Baudelaire's natural talents "would have made him only an emulator of Gautier or an excellent artist of the Parnassian school if he had not due to his inquiring turn of mind had the good fortune to discover a new intellectual world in the words of Edgar Poe. From this point onward Baudelaire will possess his canonical identity" cited in Blood pp. 42-3. The set includes Baudelaire's early study "Edgar Poe: Sa vie et ses oeuvres" and some of Poe's most famous stories such as "The Gold-Bug" "The Black Cat" and "The Masque of the Red Death". Three works octavo 180 x 116 mm. First work bound without half-title. Contemporary brown half morocco red and green spine labels raised bands ruled in blind sides and corners with gilt fillet marbled sides and endpapers top edges gilt other edges untrimmed original wrappers bound in but without the first work's front wrapper. Engraved bookplate of "J.V." on front pastedowns. Spines slightly faded small corner wear contents lightly foxed. A very good set attractively bound. Sabin 63528 63560 & 63562; Vicaire VII pp. 735-7. Susan Blood Baudelaire and the Aesthetics of Bad Faith 1997; Raymond Foye The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings by Edgar Allan Poe 1980; Gary Wayne Harner "Edgar Allan Poe in France: Baudelaire's Labour of Love" Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu 1990; Arthur Ransome Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Study 1910. hardcover
1845140946420New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe printed on pp. 143 under the pseudonym "Quarles." Bound in contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. Very Good with wear soiling and staining to binding. Contemporary ownership on title page tide mark and foxing throughout. Marginal chip to pp. 3/4. This volume also includes Poe's story "Some Words with a Mummy" pp. 363-370 and his poems "The Valley of Unrest" and "The City in the Sea" pp. 392-3 which unlike "The Raven" appear under Poe's name. Wiley and Putnam unknown
19023407New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1902. Collector's Arnheim Edition Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. Frederick Simpson Coburn. Frederick Simpson Coburn. Collector's Arnheim Edition Limited Edition. Leather Bound. 10 vol. Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Collector's Arnheim Edition Limited Edition of 300 numbered and signed sets no. 245/300. With additional material and critical introduction by Charles F. Richardson. Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Illustrated frontispiece. Top edges gilt. Bound in vellum and paper with gilt bird seal on covers and column on spine. Published New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1902. <br /> H: 9 1/8" W: 6 3/8" D: 1 3/4 G.P. Putnam's Sons unknown
19003427Philadelphia: George Barrie 1900. Large Paper Library Edition Limited Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. Large Paper Library Edition Limited Edition. Leather Bound. 6 vol. Edgar Allan Poe The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.<br /> With bibliographical essay by John H. Ingram. Large Paper Library Edition Limited Edition of 250 copies printed on imperial Japan paper of which this is no. 102. Frontispiece in 2 states. 20 original etchings five photographs and a new etched portrait. Bound in 3/4 olive green Morocco leather with blue and green marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Raised bands on spine with gilt embellishment on spine panel compartments. Published Philadelphia: George Barrie circa 1900. <br /> H: 9" W: 7 1/4" D: 1 1/2 George Barrie unknown
1903147348New York and Pittsburgh: The Colonial Company Limited 1903. Limited manuscript edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo ten volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in four compartments within gilt raised bands gilt turn-ins top edge gilt watered silk endpapers three tissue guarded frontispieces in each volume illustrated with tissue guarded engravings. One of only thirty copines printed on Japan vellum and signed by editors Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodbury on the verso of the title page. In near fine condition. An exceptional set. 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. The Colonial Company, Limited hardcover
9284San Francisco: Arion Press 2022. Full Leather. Fine binding. Large quartos. 171 1; 27 pp. illus. Limited edition number 52 of 250 "Fine Press" copies 50 Deluxe copies were also issued. Both volumes finely bound by American design binder Robin Brandes. Phantasia in black straight-grained goatskin with crimson doublures and gray suede flyleaves; onlays of distressed mirror mylar composed with image transfers and exotic leathers. The Raven is inversely bound in crimson straight-grained goatskin with black doublures and gray suede flyleaves. Striking raven wing spans from fore-edge of the front board around the spine to midway on the rear board—"feathers" composed of textured fabric with a suede finish and distressed mirror mylar. Fine copies each in crimson cloth clamshell. Prospectus laid in. <br /> <br /> A remarkable production from the Arion Press presenting some of Poe's most recognizable tales and poems here illustrated by American artist Natalie Frank—color as well as black and white; both full page and in-text illustrations printed in offset lithography and overprinted by letterpress. Brandes's restrained bindings are perfectly suited to these books rendering visually the same experience one feels when reading Poe and navigating the uncertain terrain he creates—clear enough that one recognizes the landscape but subtly disquieting. The binder writes in her artist's statement: "In his short lifetime Edgar Allan Poe became the pre-eminent chronicler of the unquiet mind. A mixture of unusual materials and striking color palette were used to emanate an enigmatic yet dramatic presentation. The haunting cover portrait I created for Poe's Phantasia is a mosaic suggesting shapes of 2 ravens. Image transfers of Poe's eyes on distressed mirror mylar and onlays of exotic leathers evoke Poe's unquiet disturbed mind filled with illusions and wishing for the return of lost love. For the covers of The Raven I designed the raven wing feathers to be a bold presentation for one of the most translated poems in history." <br /> <br /> Brandes has been binding for nearly a decade and already has a notable resume having been exhibited at Arion Press The American Bookbinders Museum The Book Club of California Guild of Book Workers San Francisco Center for the Book and more. Brandes's binding of 2020 Vision was the First Place Winner of the Rocky Mountain Guild of Book Workers 2023 Traveling Exhibition. Arion Press unknown
1883205177New York: E. P. Dutton 1883. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. Front hinge starting. Front page missing. Gilded text block edges. Illustrations by W. L. Taylor. E. P. Dutton hardcover
1902130411G.P. Putnam & Company 1902. Leather. Very Good. 1902 G.P. Putnam & Company Arnheim edition #29 of 300 limitation 10 volume set. Bound in full gilt decorated morocco by the Booklovers Shop Cleveland with the book plate of Albert Anthony Augustus to each front paste down. Illustrated through out by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Gilt top edge remainder rough cut 5 hub spines leather dentellestight bindings no marks. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. G.P. Putnam & Company hardcover
