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190930505London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd 1909. Shaw Byam. 336 pp. Black cloth stamped in gilt and red t.e.g. 16 tipped-in color illustrations by Byam Shaw with printed tissue guards. Modest wear to boards; slight evidence of a removed bookplate to front endpapers; tear with some loss to margin of p. 255; tissue guard to p. 284 torn with a large piece missing from head affecting text. Very Good. <br/><br/> Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd 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
20151Poe Edgar Allan. TALES. New York: Wiley & Putnam 1845. First edition third printing and first cloth-bound edition. Original green cloth gilt. Moderate foxing in text as always and mild discoloration to cloth but a very good copy with some fraying at foot of spine. The first printing was bound only in printed wrappers and only five copies in original wrappers are known some heavily restored and a sixth copy is known with only the spine wrapper preserved the last copy in wrappers in private hands was sold at auction June 12 2008 for $134500. The second and third printings were issued in cloth and was the first cloth-bound edition of Poe's TALES. BAL warns that "it is possible that the printings designated as second and third are in fact two states of the same printing." BAL also comments that "the majority of copies examined by BAL are repaired and possibly sophisticated." and we agree that untouched copies are uncommon. "Here. begins the detective story with `The Murders in the Rue Morgue' `The Mystery of Marie Roget' and. `The Purloined Letter'."-- Grolier American Hundred 55. This volume also includes three of Poe's masterpieces of horror: `The Fall of the House of Usher' `The Descent into the Maelstrom' and `The Gold Bug.' Heartman & Canny 1940 pp. 62-8. Queen's Quorum 1. BAL 16146. hardcover books
1979109127The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Leatherette bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover books
19919016353New York: Books of Wonder Morrow 1991. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Moser Barry. Bound in publisher's original decorated navy blue cloth wth spine stamped in gilt. With 18 illustrations by Barry Moser throughout. <br/><br/> Books of Wonder, Morrow hardcover books
19749026184Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1974. Hardcover. Fine. Published exclusively for subscribers to the Franklin Library collection : The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Bound in the publisher's original red composition leather spine stamped in gilt. Five raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Franklin Library hardcover books
1975299756Norwalk: Easton 1975. hardcover. near fine. Sharp William. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Illustrated by William Sharp. 366 pages. Tall 8vo gilt-stamped brown leather a.e.g. Norwalk: Easton Press 1975. Gilt edges are just a touch scuffed else a fine copy.<br/><br/> Easton unknown books
197570837Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1975. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition a volume in The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. Signed on the title page by artist Patrick Jones who created the color frontispiece portrait. This collection of 29 works of short fiction reveals Poe's pervasive influence upon the American short story including The Gold Bug The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Fall of the House of Usher. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Octavo. Full brown leather binding with elaborate gilt stamping five raised bands moire silk endpapers and a ribbon marker. A fine copy. The Easton Press hardcover books
1975170523007Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Easton Press collector's edition bound in genuine leather lettered and edged in gilt silken endpapers. Very Good with former owner's bookplate on verso of title page rubbed front cover. Easton Press hardcover books
194171137NY:: Heritage Press. Very Good. 1941. Hardcover. B001HB7JT6 . Introduction by Vincent Starrett. A reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. Faded along the spine else very good in a very good dust slipcase.; 366 pages . Heritage Press, hardcover books
19759002275Norwalk: Easton Press 1975. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Introduction by Vincent Starrett and illustrations by William Sharp. Bound in the publisher's original brown composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Five raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Easton Press hardcover books
19332283614Tudor Publishing Company 1933. First Thus. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First thus. Edges rubbed with some loss from corners front hinge weakening. 1933 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 412 pp. 4to. Original black cloth gilt titles black top page ridge. Tipped in color illustrations and full-page engravings by Harry Clarke illustrated label on front board. An attractive edition of Poe's classic collection of stories. CONTENTS: Ms. Found in a Bottle; Berenice; Morella; Some Passages in the Life of a Lion Lionizing; The Assignation; Bon-Bon; King Pest; Metzengerstein; Silence; A Descent into the Maelstrom; Ligeia; The Fall of the House of Usher; William Wilson; The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion; The Man of the Crowd; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; The Colloquy of Monos and Una; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold Bug; The Black Cat; The Spectacles; The Premature Burial; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Oblong Box; The Cask of Amontillado; Landor's Cottage. Tudor Publishing Company hardcover books
1941289039New York: Heritage Press 1941. hardcover. fine. William Sharp. Preface by Vincent Starrett. Illustrated with 16 aquatint plates by William Sharp. Title in red & black. 366pp. short 4to beautifully rebound in 1/2 blue morocco marbled boards. New York: Heritage Press 1941. Fine.<br/><br/> Heritage Press unknown books
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
1975108794The Easton Press Norwalk Connecticut 1975. Special Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine collector's edition from The Easton Press. Part of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. Decorative endpapers and a specially commissioned frontispiece portrait. Includes blank publisher's book plate not pasted in. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut hardcover books
1975108793The Easton Press Norwalk Connecticut 1975. Special Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine collector's edition from The Easton Press. Part of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. Decorative endpapers and a specially commissioned frontispiece portrait. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut hardcover books
198754868Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library 1987. Clarke Harry. 8vo pp. 304. Illustrations by Harry Clarke. AEG. Leatherette over boards stamped in gilt. Fine. Franklin Library unknown 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
1853140940674London: Clarke Beeton & Co 1853. First Edition. Very Good. ca 1852 1853. The first combined English illustrated edition. The first and second series bound together in one volume. Bound in contemporary half leather over diced grain cloth featuring 26 wood engravings throughout the first series and 16 throughout the second. These two illustrated volumes of Poe's stories the first including poems were issued in Great Britain as part of the Readable Books series. Pages toned owner name to blank recto of frontis illustration of the Second Series. Uncommon. Clarke, Beeton, & Co unknown books
1840319133Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. First edition one of only an estimated 750 copies printed; with p. 213 correctly numbered. 2431; iv 4 5-228 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original purple muslin printed paper spine labels; cloth folding case. Labels chipped and darkened spines and upper board edges faded chip to rear joint of vol. 1 and 2-in. split along rear joint of vol. 2; foxed. Despite minor flaws an entirely original unsophisticated copy of a truly scarce set that today is typically found recased or otherwise restored. First edition one of only an estimated 750 copies printed; with p. 213 correctly numbered. 2431; iv 4 5-228 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. First edition; one of only 750 copies printed. The twenty-five stories in this American cornerstone include two of Poe's most important works: "Ms. Found in a Bottle" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Poe had struggled since 1834 to collect his stories published in a variety of journals and magazines into book form. This publication was a major milestone for the author and critical praises included in the second volume by the likes of Washington Irving N.P. Willis J. F. Otis Mrs. Sigourney and notable academic reviews. Despite the enthusiasm it was a commercial failure.<br/><br/>Poe's recent success with "The Fall of the House of Usher" published in Burton's Gentleman's magazine in 1839 impressed the publishers Lea & Blanchard. They were not however confident in assured sales and it is recorded that in lieu of any royalties Poe received 20 free copies as payment. A prophetic anonymous reviewer in the Boston Notion proposed that Poe's work was better suited to readers of the future while readers of his time would find the stories "below the average of newspaper trash. wild unmeaning pointless aimless. without anything of elevated fancy or fine humor." Indeed readers of the future finally and firmly embraced Poe as a major innovator and master of the form. <br/><br/>Increasingly scarce in any condition but especially so in original condition. BAL 16133; Heartman & Canny pp. 49-54. Provenance: Maria W. Phelps penciled inscriptions dated Saturday August 14 1847 on front free endpapers in each volume. Possibly Maria Wilder Phelps Thayer of Boston b. 1828 wife of Boston merchant Frederick W. Thayer and mother of Harvard-educated Frederick W. Thayer inventor of the baseball catcher's mask Lea and Blanchard unknown books
1840WRCLIT77441Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. Two volumes. 2431;iv45-228pp. 12mo. Original publisher's plum muslin printed spine labels. Spines sunned and labels a bit rubbed small nick at fore-edge of lower board of vol. II loss 8mm at its deepest point at crown of spine of vol. II extends 2cm along the top edge of the upper board scattered light foxing subtle early repairs to cloth along lower portion of joints of volume I a few slight spots of dulling to upper board of volume II slight starting to a couple of gatherings in volume II gilt morocco bookplate in each volume; still a good set internally very good of a title seldom seen in anything approaching fine condition. First edition. Poe's first collection of short stories published in an edition recorded as having consisted of 750 sets only. In this set II:213 is properly numbered; on p. II:219 the 'i' in 'ing' and the hyphen are still in proper alignment variations of these features are a consequence of type loosening and have no relevance in terms of priority of issue. The four pages of "opinions" are present in the second volume bound before the title. Among the stories here collected are some of Poe's earliest triumphs including "Ms. Found in a Bottle" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "William Wilson" "Ligeia" and others. BAL 16133. BLEILER SUPERNATURAL 1313. WRIGHT I:2056. HEARTMAN AND CANNY pp. 49-54. Lea and Blanchard hardcover books
184595139New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition first printing with the imprints of T. B. Smith and H. Ludwig on the copyright page of one of the most important works in the history of American literature. Several of the dozen stories in this remarkable collection are among the best known in fiction including The Gold-Bug The Black Cat The Fall of The House of Usher and The Purloined Letter. Octavo bound in three quarters contemporary calf over marbled boards. Housed in a custom clamshell and chemise box. In excellent condition with light browning to the text. BAL 16146; Grolier 100 American 55; Heartman and Canny pp. 90-97; Yale/Gimbel 61. One of the nicest examples we have seen of this scarce highspot of American literature. Generally considered the inventor of the detective genre Edgar Alan Poe played a vital role in the development and popularization of the modern horror science fiction and mystery story. Several of the stories contained in the present volume rank among the best known in the literary canon including: The Gold-Bug The Black Cat The Fall of The House of Usher and The Purloined Letter. "These tales have been so pregnant with suggestion so stimulating to the minds of others that it may be said of many of them that each is a root from which a whole literature has developed" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. "Poe constantly and inevitably produced magic where his greatest contemporaries produced only beauty. There is really nothing to be said about it; we others simply take off our hats and let Mr. Poe go first" George Bernard Shaw. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books
193149811London: Ulysses Bookshop 1931. # 31 of an edition limited to 288 copies of this facsimile reprint of the 1st Edition. Softcover. Very good/No dust jacket. London: Ulysses Bookshop 1931. # 31 of an edition limited to 288 copies of this facsimile reprint of the 1st Edition. 40 pp. Softcover. 12mo. Light gray paper wrappers. A lovely clean copy accompanied by the 2 page prospectus both in the original titled envelope and the whole tucked into the pocket of a cloth bound portfolio with a hand-lettered title label. Very good/No dust jacket. Ulysses Bookshop paperback 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
1845309122New York: George H. Colton 118 Nassau Street. Wiley and Putnam 6 Waterloo Place Regent St. London 1845. 668pp. 8vo. Half contemporary black calf and marbled boards. Fine. 668pp. 8vo. Contains first printings of Poe's "Eulalie.-A Song" "The American Drama;" and "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case." This last was also published in the December 1845 issue of the "Broadway Journal" with the title "The Facts in the of M. Valdemar." There is also a review of Poe's "Tales" the poem "Orpheus" by J. R. Lowell and some contributions by W. G. Simms. Robertson "Bibliography. Edgar A. Poe" pp. 24-5 George H. Colton, 118 Nassau Street. Wiley and Putnam, 6 Waterloo Place, Regent St., London unknown books
