Poe edgar

1841 · 2601300005 — Philadelphia: George Graham 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Vol. 18. Contains four original works by Edgard Allen Poe: "The Masque of the Red Death" "An Appendix of Autographs;" "To One Departed" and "Life in Death." Bound in full sheep. Hardcover. Front board taped. Steel engraved plates mezzotints & colored fashion drawings. 308 pages. "Two women have been brutally slain inside a locked fourth-floor room and yet one's body is outside the other is disturbingly and firmly stuffed up the chimney. Writing at a time before the term "detective" was coined Poe drew on no pre-existing trope of drawing room logical revelation. Such a conceit is now so overwhelmingly prevalent it's hard to imagine a time when it had yet to bore its way into any written story. Poe's Dupin defines the archetype applying logic objective facts and reason to solve the case in dramatic fashion." - Swanns Auction <br> Provenance: From the library of Edgar S. Bamberger 1883-1952 Vice President of the well-known department store and civic leader. Contemporary signature on fep. Philadelphia: George Graham hardcover