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Poe Edgar Allan author; Griswold Rufus Wilmot; Willis NP.; Lowell J. R. contributors N. P.ABAA

Poe Edgar AllanABAA

THE WORKS in Four Volumes. Vol. I - TALES; Vol. II - POEMS & MISCELLANIES; Vol. III - THE LITERATI.; Vol. IV - ARTHUR GORDON PYM &c

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

Sumner & Stillman · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

Poe Edgar AllanABAA

The Raven and Other Poems and: Tales

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

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis38 000,00 $US≈ 32 151,80 €