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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
186815360Melbourne: George Robertson 1868. First Australian edition. pp. i-viii 9-144. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher's green cloth quite worn and soiled endpapers abraded small hole in title-leaf New Zealand bookseller's stamp on first two leaves. A well-worn but sound copy of this scarcity. First Australian edition. pp. i-viii 9-144. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First Australian edition! BAL 16215 George Robertson unknown books
116329New York: Hodder and Stoughton No Date. Hardbound. Very clean and tight but for ex-lib. sticker on spine and bookplate inside front cover;. Dulac Edmund. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and black decoration; 46 poems and 28 illustrations; fabulous endpapers decorated with bells; no page numbers;. Stunning color illustrations by Edmund Dulac of Poe's haunting poetry. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
1845319132New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First Edition with half-title. viii 91 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full green morocco a.e.g. Spine sunned some foxing throughout; pencilled note on flyleaf stating that the binding was executed in 1896. Near fine. First Edition with half-title. viii 91 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Edition. Students all over the world know of the title poem and many know others as well: "The Conqueror Worm" "Eulalie" "Leonore" "To Helen" etc.<br/><br/>"The most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time in America" Hervey Allen Israfel The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe New York 1926 vol. 2 p. 667. The Raven and Other Poems was published in November 1845 in an edition of some 750 copies; it was dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and contains 30 poems including "The Raven" "Eulalia" "Tamerlane" "Al Aaraff" and "To Helen" etc. The title poem was first printed in the American Review for January 1845; it "made Poe's name known both in America and England and brought him an immortality that by no other means could he have attained . and it gave him fame as a poet such as no other American has received" John W. Robertson A Bibliography of the Writings of . Poe San Francisco 1934 vol. 2 pp. 224-225. Grolier American 56; BAL 16147; Heartman & Canny pp. 97-108; Robertson vol. 2 pp. 224-225 Wiley and Putnam unknown books
18451001883New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century first published earlier that year in the New York Evening Mirror under Poe's own name and The American Review under a pseudonym. Partly inspired by the early lyrics of Elizabeth Barrett later Browning to whom he dedicated this volume of poems Poe composed "The Raven" in trochaic octometer with a deranged musicality all his own. The elements are familiar even to those who don't read poetry: the "midnight dreary" the silk-curtained chamber the raven perched upon the bust of Athena the relentless refrain that drives the narrator mad. "'Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! / Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! / Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door!' / Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'" Even before publication Poe knew he had a sensation on his hands. When a friend described an early reading of the poem as "fine uncommonly fine" Poe responded: "Is that all you can say for this poem I tell you it's the greatest poem ever written." Poe's fame only increased with the appearance of contemporary parodies like "The Owl" and "The Polecat": a contemporary recalls "'The Raven' became known everywhere and everyone was saying 'Nevermore.'" The publication of "The Raven" paved the way for Wiley and Putnam's publication of Poe's Tales the collection that introduced his pioneering detective fiction to a wider audience that same year. BAL 16147. A near-fine copy of a landmark in American literature. Octavo measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 6 91 1. Early twentieth-century full russet calf boards single-ruled in gilt raised bands black morocco spine labels spine single-ruled and lettered in gilt gilt dentelles marbled endpapers. Handwritten slip tipped onto second fly leaf noting "inner gilt dentelles by Zaehnsdorf." Lacking original wrappers half title and ads. Joints expertly repaired a few light scratches to lower board. Wiley and Putnam unknown books
1845320399New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First editions of both titles. Tales BAL third printing three-line copyright; Raven with half title "Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books" name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; Tales third printing with three-line copyright. Raven: i-viii 1-91 92 blank 93-96 ads. Tales: i-v 1-228 229-232 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter blue morocco gilt t.e.g. by Riviere & Son. Binder's endsheets with foxing text with slight toning and a few stray traces of foxing. First editions of both titles. Tales BAL third printing three-line copyright; Raven with half title "Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books" name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; Tales third printing with three-line copyright. Raven: i-viii 1-91 92 blank 93-96 ads. Tales: i-v 1-228 229-232 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Students all over the world know of the title poem and many know others as well: "The Conqueror Worm" "Eulalie" "Leonore" "To Helen" etc. "The most important volume of poetry that had been issued up to that time in America." - Grolier American 56<br/><br/>A choice set of the major books published during Poe's lifetime BAL's "reissue B" issued by Wiley and Putnam in April 1846 comprising the first edition sheets of The Raven and The Tales in either second or third printing here in BAL's third printing distinguishable by the three-line copyright notice. <br/><br/>BAL notes that "impressions from the plates of several pages vary in an anomalous way. For instance the first three letters of the last three lines of p. 160 appear both battered and intact within the three printings." This copy has slight battering to "I" and "o" on p. 160 while the "v" is intact. The E in the running head on p. 187 is broken here as in most copies of all printings. BAL cautions "It is possible that the printings designated below as second and third are in fact two states of the same printing." This copy is textually complete in both books including the integral ads; the volume has been rebound without the separate gatherings of advertisements that followed the text. BAL 16146 16147; Heartman & Canny 92-94 97-108; Grolier American 56 Wiley and Putnam unknown books
18451610043Wiley and Putnam 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Vol. I January-June 1845; vol. II July-December 1845. In vol. I: The Raven p.143 and Some Words with a Mummy p.363. In vol. II: Eulalie-A Song p.79 and The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case p.561. Vol. I and II: Thick quarto half red morocco over marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt geometric patterns in compartments. Vol. I: Light foxing to the preliminaries and fore edges. Vol. II: Light foxing to the preliminaries and fore edges front inner hinge open. Very good uncommonly clean copies. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
1968450A facsimile of the 1875 edition of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe with French translation into English by Stephane Mallarme and illusttrations by Edouard Manet. Copy number 119 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Slim quarto. Hard cover. Unpaginated but 32pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Walker and Company hardcover books
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
1900WRCLIT68113Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1900. Six volumes. Small quarto. Somewhat later unsigned full green pebbled morocco gilt labels a.e.g. Plates. Extremities a bit rubbed but a good sound set internally about fine. A deluxe issue of this offshoot of the illustrated edition published by Nimmo in London in 1884 with a biographical essay by John H. Ingram and illustrations. That edition marked the first appearance in book form of the "Journal of Julius Rodman" see BAL 16166. This is set #100 of the "Large Paper Library Edition" of 250 sets printed on Japan vellum with the "Twenty Original Etchings Five Photogravures and a New Etched Portrait" present in two states. The illustrations are signed in the plates by Wogel Ferrat Herpin et al and are related to those executed for the 1884 edition published in Paris by Quantin. This set was subscribed for by Livingston Ludlow Biddle the prominent Philadelphian and has his name imprinted on the colophon. George Barrie & Son hardcover books
198457182Franklin Center Pa: The Franklin Library 1984. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo pp. 10 360 2; original full black gilt-stamped morocco silk moiré endpapers silk ribbon bookmark a.e.g.; fine bright copy. <br/><br/> The Franklin Library unknown books
1850145961850. . by N.P. Willis J.R. Lowell and R.W. Griswold. New York: J.S. Redfield 1850 Vol IV in 1856. 4 pp Vol I ads; 8 pp Vol IV ads. Original blind-stamped purple and blue-grey cloth. First Collected Edition of Poe's writings published beginning in the year following his sudden death at the age of 40. According to the Vol I note by Maria Clemm Poe's aunt and mother-in-law he had requested shortly before his death that Rufus Griswold act as literary executor and that N.P. Willis write "such observations upon his life and character as he might deem suitable.". This is the resulting work which she says is "published for my benefit" she had assigned her rights in it to Redfield for a fee. The first two volumes were issued together in December 1849 or January 1850. The first volume which includes a Poe portrait frontispiece consists of Poe's "Tales" -- including all those for which he is famous -- "The Gold Bug" "The Murders of the Rue Morgue" "The Black Cat" "The Pit and the Pendulum" "The Cask of Amontillado" "The Tell-Tale Heart" and so on; the second volume contains his verse such as "The Raven" "Lenore" "Annabel Lee" "The Conqueror Worm" and "Tamerlane." This pair is from the second printing determinable by the ads in Vol I and on page 46 of Vol II; these volumes are in Blanck's faded-purple binding "D" four filigree rules on spine volume number in gilt. Later in 1850 September a third volume THE LITERATI etc. -- including Griswold's infamous "Sketch" of Poe was issued; this copy is likewise in binding "D" but in blue-grey. Finally six years later a fourth and final volume including ARTHUR GORDON PYM was also issued -- Blanck's binding "H" here in purple specific for this volume but also used for 1853-1856 reprints of the earlier volumes. This set is generally in very good condition with minor wear at the extremities; the front endpaper is excised in Vols I II and III; Vol II has some soil on pages 22-27; and Vol IV has darkened page margins and a bit more edge-wear than the other volumes. Blanck 16158 16159 16161; Heartmann & Canny pp 129-131. unknown books
283911New York: Bigelow. hardcover. very good. 10 volumes bound in 5. Black and white frontispieces. 3/4 red morocco leather over red cloth gilt stamped spines top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Subtle dampstain in the upper margins of two volumes. New York Bigelow no date circa 1910. A very good set.<br/><br/> Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front attached endpapers. Some pages unopened.<br/><br/> Bigelow unknown books
1914WM0977New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1914. Original dark green morocco 5 raised bands with gilt lettering and rules and light blue paper covered boards. TEG other edges untrimmed. Each volume with tissue guarded frontispiece. Green and black title pages. The volume "Poems" is chipped at bottom of spine with some loss of leather. Otherwise set is generally very good with only shelfwear and wear on joints with some blotches on paper covered boards. First Thus. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Charles Scribner's Sons 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
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
185037560New York: J.S. Redfield 1850. Together with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Vol.3: The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Authorial Merits and Demerits with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with marginalia suggestions and essays.With a sketch of the author by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. New York: Redfield 1850. Together with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. 4: Arthur Gordon Pym &c. New York: Redfield 1856. Together 4 volumes 12mo; BAL 16158 16159 and 16161. All are first editions all ex-James J. Hill Library with light accession markings on the spines and perforated stamps in the lower margins of the title pages; vol. I is first printing in BAL's A binding in original brown cloth front hinge cracked lacking the engraved frontispiece; Vol. 2 is the second printing in BAL's binding variant F in original blue cloth; Vol. 3 in BAL's binding variant F in original black cloth; Vol. 4 in BAL's binding variant H in original purple cloth; shelf wear small loss to top of spine of Vol. 4 affecting 2 letters at the top. <br/><br/> J.S. Redfield hardcover books
1898174327Chicago: Caxton Club 1898. Hardcover. Good- shaken moderate wear rubbing soiling and scuffing to boards. chipping at spine. Salmon cloth boarsd with black-lettered white paper label. 32 pp. 20 numbered pages of plates. Facsimiles. One of 186 copies. "The facsimiles of the six Poe manuscripts are made by the courtesy of Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson owner of the originals"-Note page 7. Caxton Club hardcover books
18351504712Carey and Hart 1835. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A story anthology published in a gift book format containing the first appearance of Poe's classic tale A Manuscript Found in a Bottle. Poe's fourth book appearance. Original red leather covers with stamp decorations and bright gilt titles on the spine. Very good condition. 292 pages with nine engravings. Carey and Hart hardcover books
186825606Melbourne: George Robertson 1868. 1st edition thus BAL 16215. "Australian Edition". Original green cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Yellow eps. Overall VG avg binding wear/some soiling & staining to a few preliminary leaves/period pos to ffep. viii 9 - 144 pp. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/> George Robertson hardcover books
196952493New York: Oxford University Press 1969. Octavo pp. i-vi vii-x 1-2 3-255 256-262: blank note: last three leaves are blanks cloth. First edition. Study focusing on Poe's career as a journalist between 1835 and 1849 that places him within the tradition of contemporary European journalism. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. #52493 Oxford University Press unknown books
200471315New York: Atheneum 2004. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Later printing. Signed and dated by Gris Grimly with his trademark "Be grim!" on the title page. The gently abridged retellings are in Poe's original language and Grimly's wonderfully ghastly full-color spot and full-page art splendidly depicts the mayhem that leads to murder in "The Black Cat" the partying in the "The Masque of the Red Death" the vicious genius of "Hop-Frog" and the dual connotations of "The Fall of the House of Usher." Octavo. Original pictorial boards. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Atheneum hardcover books
197394826Durham N.C.: Duke University Press 1973. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-iv v vi vii-viii 1-2 3-228 229-230: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks cloth. First edition. Includes a translation of Ola Hansson's monograph on Poe the chief document to emerge from nineteenth-century Scandinavia's reading of Poe. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some age-darkening and light dust soiling. #94826 Duke University Press unknown books
18561320270New York: Redfield 1856. Hardcover. Octavo; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine brown with gold print; Boards in grey cloth wear to corners and spine caps heavy wear to front fore edge shelfwear; Text block has name in ink on front endpapers slight foxing throughout tinted top edge stain to fore edge slight tear to fore edge of final four pages; xxvi 495 pages. 1320270. FP New Rockville Stock. Redfield hardcover books
18521317633New York: J.S. Redfield 1852. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine green with gold print; Boards in green embossed cloth exposed corners tattered spine caps mild spotting and shelfwear; Text block has surface tear to front pastedown erased name on front flyleaf cracked front hinge intermittent spine breaks tanning to rear endpapers foxing throughout; xx 483 pages frontispiece port. 1317633. FP New Rockville Stock. J.S. Redfield hardcover books
