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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
1864WRCLIT85064Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey 1864. xi2001pp. Quarto. Polished plum-colored cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Lithographed manuscript facsimiles and illustrations. Spine a shade sunned with shallow chips at crown and toe slight edge-wear a bit of foxing early and late old French bookseller's description in corner of verso of front free endsheet offset through tissue to upper blank portion of title old offset from an ancient and absent floral specimen in gutters of pages 42-3 generally a very good copy. First edition of this considerable undertaking to raise funds contemporary with the Baltimore Sanitary Fair to support relief for the aid of soldiers and their families. Includes faithful facsimiles of the contributors' works and includes the first facsimile of Lincoln's handwritten Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg. Other facsimiles of works by other important 19th Century authors include: Francis Scott Key Edward Everett Washington Irving Harriet Beecher Stowe Nathaniel Hawthorne John Audubon Oliver Wendell Holmes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Herman Melville Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau William G. Simms J.J. Audubon and many many others. Melville's "Inscription to the Slain at Fredericksburg" was not collected in book form until 1947. BAL 2418 13672 etc. Cushings & Bailey hardcover books
18945131London: Printed in Paris by .douard Nelumbo for George Routledge & Sons 1894. pp. vii 123 24mo. Magnificently bound by G.T. Bagguley of Newcastle-under-Lyme signed lower dentelle in highly stylized gilt Art Nouveau design work on both covers full green crushed morocco gilt spine with single long stem and blossom titling. Illustrations by Mittis GuillaumeÃs Nelumbos series. Paris printing with engraved frontispiece and further engraved illustrations throughout many full-page tiny spot to fore-margin of fly-title Some trivial rubbing to extremities and the backstrip slightly sunned t.e.g. others untrimmed with a few faint spots marbled endpapers near fine. Bagguley was a Staffordshire bookseller and binder active from the end of the nineteenth- century through to the middle of the next. This is an attractive binding quite understated in comparison to the more elaborate work he sometimes produced. It was hitherto kept in the family by descent. [Printed in Paris by ...douard Nelumbo for] George Routledge & Sons unknown books
1839006294Philadelphia: William E. Burton 1839. Very Good Plus and handsomely bound in later red cloth with gilt titles and rules top edge gilt marbled end pages 332 pp.with six tissue-guarded plates. gilt initials P.L. front board. complete with all illustrations lacking only the tissue guard for the month of September. Bound without the original wrappers. Cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends. Contains the First Printing of Poe's classic story "The Fall of the House of Usher" basis for several movies and TV shows including the 1960 classic "House of Usher" starring Vincent Price and with the screenplay by Richard Matheson. Also includes several other Poe stories and poems including "To Ianthe in Heaven" "The Man that was Used Up: A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign" "William Wilson: A tale" basis for several TV episodes "Morella: A tale" also filmed 1999 and "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion". . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William E. Burton, Hardcover books
183937562Philadelphia: William E. Burton 1839. 8vo pp. iv 334; 6 steel engraveds plates and illustrations in text; full calf gilt-stamped spine shelf wear; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; foxing and discoloration. This volume includes numerous stories and poems by Poe including "To Ianthe in Heaven" "The Man that was Used Up: A tale of the late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "William Wilson: A tale" "Morella: A tale" and "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion". Also includes extensive pieces on archery gymnastics and cricket. <br/><br/> William E. Burton unknown books
18431609032Graham's Magazine 1843. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First appearance of Poe's The Conqueror Worm. Philadelphia: Graham 1842. Large thick quarto half roan over marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and simple gilt borders to compartments. A very good copy. Graham's Magazine hardcover books
1880300848London John Hogg 1880. 1880. First edition. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt black and blind with designs of a black raven harp leaves etc.; brown coated endpapers. 2 volumes. Very good. Small bookplate of F.J. Tebly on the front pastedown of both volumes. Volume I with photograph of Poe from the famous "Stella" daguerreotype. Volume II with photograph of Poe's mother Elizabeth from a miniature portrait. Printed by Ballantyne Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, John Hogg, 1880. hardcover books
1860128945New York: Rudd & Carleton 1860. 12mo 81 pp. 6 pages of publisher ads original brown vertically ribbed cloth stamped in gold and blind terra cotta coated endpapers. First edition. Probable first printing. Early and significant work of criticism by Poe's fiancee "Helen thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicéan barks of yore ." whose preface establishes her motives in writing it. "Dr. Griswold's Memoir of Edgar Poe has been extensively read and circulated; its perverted facts and baseless assumptions have been adopted into every subsequent memoir and notice of the poet and have been translated into many languages. For ten years this great wrong to the dead has passed unchallenged and unrebuked ." BAL 21368 printing A binding B; no binding priority. Some fading to cloth light wear at corners more at spine ends light tanning to text paper a very good copy. #128945 Rudd & Carleton unknown books
18411609035Carey and Hart: Philadelphia 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contains first appearance of Eleonora by Poe. Small octavo full russet decorated calf stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Front inner hinge cracked but sound. One signature slightly pulled. Very good. Carey and Hart: Philadelphia hardcover books
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
184837022New York: George P. Putnam 1848. First edition first issue of Poe's classic work. Duodecimo original publishers blind stamped black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. First issue without the review for Eureka on page 2 of the 16 page catalogue at the end of the book but reads simply: "Poe. -- Eureka A Prose Poem: Or the Physical and Metaphysical Universe. By Edgar A. Poe Esq." In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom cloth box. A nice bright example of this rare and important text. Poe considered Eureka his magnum opus but Putnam only agreed to publish 500 copies due to the unique nature of the material. Eureka has often been misunderstood and ridiculed but it is in fact a remarkable precursor of several modern theories of physics and a powerful essay on the material and spiritual universe. Poe hypothesized that the universe began at a set point in the past and was finite rather than infinite. In arguing that the Universe of Stars must be finite he appeals to the evidence of observed experience. Poe wrote "Were the succession of stars endless then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point in all that background at which would not exist a star. The only mode therefore in which under such a state of affairs we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all. That this may be so who shall venture to deny I maintain simply that we have not even the shadow of a reason for believing that it is so." BAL 16153. George P. Putnam hardcover books
18455525First edition. Octavo. 13 steel engraved illustrations including frontispiece and title. Full contemporary gilt stamped tan leather gilt stamped black morocco spine label a.e.g. Good light foxing. <br />BAL #4024 #16143.<br /><br />Heartman & Canny 1943 88-89. Carey and Hart hardcover books
1849289880Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey 1849. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. With the first printing of Edgar Allen Poe's poem Mellonta Tauta in the 1849 February issue p. 133. Also with a hoax consisting of a fraudulent letter with a facsimile of Poe's signature in the 1849 December issue p. 417 and The Lady Hubbard p. 419. From the Poe Bibliography "in the issue of December 1849 a hoax was perpetrated at the late Poe's expense. There appears a letter dated April 1 1848 to which a facsimile of Poe's autograph is affixed. In this letter he is expressing the true purpose of poetry." Heartman and Canny 199. Complete with twelve issues; with the engraved general title page hand colored title page for Vol. 39 and 12 hand colored fashion plates at the start of each monthly issue. Rebound in brown cloth with the remnants of the leather label laid down. Heartman and Canny Poe Bibliography 199-201. Very Good binding. Louis A. Godey unknown books
184637477Philadelphia: George R. Graham & Co 1846. 2 volumes in 1 large 8vo; engraved frontispiece illustrations and 30 plates some colored; later three-quarter gilt-stamped red morocco over blind-tooled cloth some shelf wear; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; foxing. Edgar Allan Poe was the magazine's chief literary editor and these two volumes include 3 of his Marginalia and his "Philosophy of Composition". Also published here are works by Park Benjamin and Henry Longfellow. <br/><br/> George R. Graham & Co hardcover books
184637527Philadelphia: George R. Graham & Co 1846. 2 volumes in 1 large 8vo; engraved frontispiece illustrations and 30 plates some colored; contemporary black morocco over black cloth gilt lettering on spine shelf wear; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; some foxing. Edgar Allan Poe was the magazine's chief literary editor and these two volumes include three of his Marginalia and his "Philosophy of Composition". Also published here are works by Park Benjamin and Henry Longfellow. <br/><br/> George R. Graham & Co hardcover books
18411504710Graham 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. A bound complete run of 6 monthly issues from 1841 when Poe served as the magazine's literary editor. This volume contains 4 installments of Poe's essay A Few Works of Secret Writing as well as the first appearances of two of his tales and revised printings of some of his poetry. An important contemporary record of one of America's most important writers. Covers detached overall good condition. Graham hardcover books
184115560Philadelphia: George R. Graham 1841. Volume XIX Nos. 1-6 inclusive. Illustrated with engraved plates some colored. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown quarter leather and cloth. Joints repaired some darkening and foxing to text. Very good. Volume XIX Nos. 1-6 inclusive. Illustrated with engraved plates some colored. 1 vols. 8vo. "To the glory that was Greece . " - First Printing. Apart from numerous reviews and critical notes there are several of Poe's own pieces including:<br/><br/>1 July "A Few Words on Secret Writing"pp. 33-38; First Printing<br/>2 August "The Colloquy of Monos and Una" pp. 52-54; First Printing<br/>3 August "Secret Writing" p. 96; First Printing<br/>4 September "To Helen" p. 123; a reprint but revised and containing for the first time the two lines: "To the glory that was Greece / To the grandeur that was Rome";<br/>5 September "Never Bet Your Head" p. 124-127; First Printing<br/>6 October "Israfel" p. 183;<br/>7 November "A Chapter on Autography" pp. 273-286; First Printing. Hartman pp. 204-06 George R. Graham unknown books
1842021102Philadelphia Vol. XX January to June: George R. Graham 1842. Large Octavo. Sammelband of three magazines illustrated with a couple hand-colored and several black & white engravings and one pattern. Graham's Magazine as noted above; The New Mirror- June 17 1843 Aug. 26 1843 July 6 1844 and Aug. 12 1843. and extracts from The Rover nd. but one from Vol. I No. VII and Volume III No. 16 A Weekly magazine edited by Seba Smith New York S.B. Dean & Co. 1844 Poe was employed over the years by several magazines in some editorial capacity. As an editor and sometimes merely as a regular contributor. Poe wrote a great deal of material in the form of literary reviews such as Review of Rufus W. Griswold's The Poets and Poetry of America Review of William Gilmore Simms's Beauchampe or the Kentucky Tragedy. Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales and Review of Charles. Fenno Hoffman's The Vigil of Faith and Other Poems all found on pages 298-300 and attributed to Edgar A. Poe Table of Contents genreand notices miscellaneous essays editorial filler and even plate articles. Poe's stories found in these magazines would be considered first appearances of his works. Contained here within are the following titles by Poe: An Appendix of Autographs; A Few Works About Brainard; Life in Death; The Mask of Red Death and To One Departed. Bound in 3/4 black morocco over patterned cloth raised bands ruled in gilt lettering gilt wear to corners and edges light scattered foxing or staining. This issue of Graham's was Poe's last as editor. All magazines were serialized and first issued in wraps. Owners would have them bound later. To find any of Poe's works in wraps are quite rare. A very nice copy. George R. Graham unknown books
184237510Philadelphia: George R. Graham 1842. 8vo pp. 344; 16 plates; bound with: Godey's Lady's Book May September-November 1842 various paginations 12 steel engraved plates and hand-colored lithographs. Together in three-quarter calf over marbled boards most of the calf on spine has been rubbed away hinges repaired; front endpapers foxed with tape repair ex-library with usual markings interior mostly fine. Includes an essay by Edgar Allan Poe the Magazine's chief literary editor "The Poetry of Rufus Dawes. A retrospective criticism". Pieces by James Fenimore Cooper Noah Webster and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow also printed in the Magazine. <br/><br/> George R. Graham hardcover books
1842WB15013Philadelphia: George Graham 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Thick 8vo. Contemporary ¾ leather and marbled paper over boards. Issues 21&22. 356pp & 354pp. Binding worn; preliminaries loose otherwise a very good copy. Contains the classic Edgar Allan Poe story The Mask of the Red Death. Packed with literary contributions essays wood-engravings and other goodies. <br/><br/> George Graham hardcover books
187237817New York: Harper & Brothers 1872. 1st printing. Printed buff paper wrappers with black lettering printed to spine and covers. Chipping and rubbing to spine and wrapper edges. Tanning to spine moderate foxing to covers and leaves. Small sticker to bottom front cover. Damp stain on first pages. A VG copy. 481 - 640 8 adverts pp. Intratextual b/w illustrations. 10" - 6-1/2" <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers unknown books
1889WRCLIT62654Paris: Léon Vanier 1889. xii167pp. Large octavo. 19th century three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. original printed parchment wrappers bound in. Portrait and eight plates. Wrappers a bit foxed as usual faint foxing to margins of portrait extremities a bit rubbed with small ink smudge on spine otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate of James S. Copley and with earlier gilt ownership initials "R.A." at toe of spine. First French edition in part of these translations preceded by a limited edition published in Belgium the previous year and the 1875 separate appearance of LE CORBEAU. Apart from the engraved plate of Poe's tomb the plates are printings of Édouard Manet's black & white lithographs including the four images from the celebrated folio edition of LE CORBEAU. Mallarmé dedicated the collection: "A la mémoire de Baudelaire que la Mort empécha d'achever en traduisant l'ensemble de ces poèmes le monument magnifique et fraternel dédié par son génie à Edgar Poé." MONOD 9178. TALVART & PLACE XIII p.130. Léon Vanier hardcover books
18491609025Godey 1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick quarto black morocco. Boards with decorative gilt designs. Spine replaced with gilt lettering. Clean internally. A very good sound copy. Contains first appearance of Poe's Mellonta Tauta. Godey 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
18411608325Graham's Magazine 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. The true first appearance of Poe's classic tale Murders in the Rue Morgue considered the first detective story ever published. In original binding. Book is in good condition. This is Graham's compilation of all of their issues starting in February published in 1841. The Murders starts on page 166.Bound magazine. Two volumes in one: Volumes 18 and 19: January-December 1841. Octavo. iv 1-295 1pp. and 12 engraved plates; iv 1-308pp. and 19 engraved plates. Complete. Contains the first printed appearances of: "Murders in the Rue Morgue" considered the world's first detective story "A Descent into the Maelstrom" and three other Poe tales; the complete essay "Secret Writing" in four installments the first two parts of the essay "A Chapter on Autography" and over 50 critical reviews by Poe. Also included are the first revised printings of the poems: "To Helen" and "Israfel." A complete run of 12 monthly issues from 1841 when Poe served as the magazine's literary editor and had reached the peak of his powers and influence both as a writer and editor. The run also includes nine mezzotints by Philadelphia's famous engraver John Sartain one of which illustrates Poe's tale: "The Island of the Fay." A scarce and desirable annual volume. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Graham's Magazine hardcover books
