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1843185968New York: William W. Snowden 1843. Hardcover. VG Cover has wear fading peeling edge/corner damage. Spine has peeling cracking fading edge damage. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning water damage some tape repairand foxing. Writing from previous owner on front end page. Internal binding is slightly loose. Contains Vol XVII & XVIII Brown leather corners and spine. Brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering and gilt highlight on spine illustrations frontispiece plates. Includes the first printing of all three parts of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Mystery of Marie Roget" which is based on the actual murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers. William W. Snowden hardcover books
18451610316George R.Graham 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Large thick quarto. Publisher's full roan with gilt decoration to boards. Spine with gilt decoration in compartments. Marbled end papers and all edges marbled. Light splits at the spine tips and light to moderate foxing internally front gutter paper open. Famous engraving of Poe after p. 48. A very good copy. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. George R.Graham hardcover books
1835WRCLIT81345Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1835. x217-292pp. Small octavo. Publisher's blindstamped red roan a.e.g. Eight engraved plates and frontis portrait. Rebacked at an early date with cloth original roan backstrip laid down cloth reinforcement to inner hinges fore-tips worn usual offsetting to the patterned endsheets; internally about very good. First edition. Of significance for the first book publication of Poe's "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" in company with Irving's "An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron" which Heartman suggests was thematically influential on Poe's "William Wilson." Other contributors include Simms Sigourney and Paulding. THOMPSON p.126. HEARTMAN & CANNY pp.36-7. BAL 16126 10146 etc. Carey & Hart hardcover books
18391609031Carey and Hart 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First appearance of William Wilson p. 229. Foxing to the engraved title and tissue guards. Binding detached as of p. 225. Some faint writing on front free end paper name stamp on verso of front free end paper and other free end paper. Carey and Hart hardcover books
1839008650Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1839. Original dark brown morocco with elaborate gilt decorations all edges gilt yellow end papers Very Good small rubs at corners and spine ends prior owner signatures front end page and first page of text"Miss Emeline Fredrickson Christmas 1840" moderate to heavy foxing at engravings first signature loosened yet holding end papers soiled. Contains the first printing of Poe's story "William Wilson plus "Deacon Enos" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. . First Edition. Morocco. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Carey & Hart Hardcover books
183937475Philadelphia: William E. Burton 1839. 8vo pp. iv 360; 4 steel engraved plates and illustrations throughout; full contemporary calf slightly soiled gilt-stamped spine in five compartments some shelf wear; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; losses to front free endpapers foxing. Includes fiction pieces poetry book reviews and essays on "manly" passtimes such as ice skating dogs and travel narratives. <br/><br/> William E. Burton unknown books
18391609033Gentleman's Magazine 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The first appearance of the classic tale The Fall of the House of Usher. Rebacked with leather spine. Very good condition. The bound volume of the periodical in which the tale first appeared. Housed in a supplied slipcase. Gentleman's Magazine hardcover books
18391503609Gentleman's Monthly 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. This is the first appearance of Edgar Allan Poes classic tale The Fall of the House of Usher. William E. Burton Philadelphia 1839. First edition. Two volumes bound as one. Vol. V from July to December 1839 and Vol. VI January to July 1840. Contains many important contributions by editor Edgar Allan Poe including The Fall of the House of Usher William Wilson The Journal of Julius Rodman The Man That Was Used Up and many reviews etc. Pages with usual foxing and some age staining. Original tissue paper for plates browned. Good condition. Housed in a custom-made collectors slipcase. $1500. Gentleman's Monthly hardcover books
18401503136Richard Bentley 1840. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This bound collection of magazines contains the first UK appearances of four stories by Edgar Allan Poe including The Fall of the House of Usher the Irish Gentleman and the Little Frenchman and two others. Contemporary 3/4 tan calf and embossed floral cloth. Covers reattached with show of cloth. Calf worn and repaired. Contents recased. Plates foxed remaining contents slightly foxed. Otherwise very good clean and tight copy. iv. 643 pages. Plates by George Cruikshank Alfred Crowquill and John Leech. All the Poe stories were pirated and were printed without Poe's name or permission. The Usher story first came out in the US the prior year 1839. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Richard Bentley hardcover books
18431609026Graham 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. Contents clean and fresh. A very good copy. Graham hardcover books
1839406589Philadelphia: Published for the Author by Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1839. Joints split but threads holding leather dry; some occasional pale foxing. 12mo 17 x 10.5 cm. 156 pages. 12 lithographed plates after P. S. Duval. Original red roan-backed printed boards dated 1840. FIRST EDITION in boards unrecorded by BAL or Heartman & Canny. The upper board on this copy notes that it is for the second edition and is dated 1840. BAL 16131; Heartman & Canny pp. 41-44; Norman 1720. <br/><br/> Published for the Author by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell hardcover books
184037559Philadelphia: Published for the author by Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1840. 12mo pp. 166; 12 leaves of black and white lithographic plates; original brown blind-tooled cloth gilt-stamped spine; small loss to bottom of spine shelf wear; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; some discoloration to endpapers interior mostly fine. BAL 16132. <br/><br/> Published for the author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell hardcover books
1839WRCLIT65327Philadelphia: Published for the Author by Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1839. 156pp. plus 12 lithographed plates. 12mo. Brown sheep-backed lithographed pictorial pink paper over boards. Boards and endsheets soiled and slightly discolored early ink name on upper board and front pastedown spine extremities chipped with split to upper joint cords still sound pencil computations on preliminary blank plates slightly darkened at margins faint marginal tidemark to last few leaves of index and glossary otherwise a good copy. First edition of this unacknowledged adaptation of Thomas Brown's THE CONCHOLOGIST'S TEXT-BOOK Glasgow 1833 edited and with a preface by Poe. This is one of the copies with the plates not in color and plate III is in BAL's state A no priority established. BAL 16131. HEARTMAN & CANNEY pp.41-4. NORMAN LIBRARY 1720. RINDERKNECHT 57990. Published for the Author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell hardcover books
1839WRCLIT65326Philadelphia: Published for the Author by Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1839. 156pp. plus 12 color lithographed plates. 12mo. Green sheep-backed lithographed pictorial yellow paper over boards. Paper on upper board significantly chipped around lower and fore-edge with loss to the margins of the image spine extremities worn with crack to lower joint cords still sound ownership signature and elaborate manuscript ex-libris on endsheets of Dr. Charles Henry Payn some foxing to text but the plates largely unaffected neat pencil captions on one plate otherwise a good copy. First edition of this unacknowledged adaptation of Thomas Brown's THE CONCHOLOGIST'S TEXT-BOOK Glasgow 1833 edited and with a preface by Poe. This is one of the preferred copies with the plates lithographed in color and plate III is in BAL's state A no priority established. BAL 16131. HEARTMAN & CANNEY pp.41-4. NORMAN LIBRARY 1720. RINDERKNECHT 57990. Published for the Author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell hardcover books
18401609036Haswell Barrington and Haswell Philadelphia 1840. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo pp. 166 12 lithographic plates. Bound in original green printed boards very good general wear rebacked with leather spine. A very good copy of this fragile book. BAL 16132; Heartman & Canny p. 44; Tucker "Natural History in America 1609-1860" 1754 calling the book a piracy; Yale Gimbel Collection 38. Poe was accused of pirating this little book from Thomas Wyatt's "A Manual of Conchology" when he was putting this out in response to Wyatt's wishes and at his suggestion. This is the only one of Poe's American imprints to be reprinted in his lifetime. Second Edition corrected and enlarged from the first edition issued only six months earlier with a new preface by Poe on which he comments on the success of the publication. Haswell, Barrington and Haswell, Philadelphia hardcover books
1881292043Philadelphia.: Porter and Coates. 1881. Full deeply embossed padded leather gilt cover title leaf patterned endpapers all edges gilt. Very good old ink ink inscription to second endpaper. 19.5x16 cm. weight: 0.8 lb. Illustrations by Darley McCutcheon Fredericks Perkins King Riordan and Northam. Each leaf illustrated. Porter and Coates. hardcover books
1881180519Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1881. Hardcover. VG-. covers show some wear and slight soiling. Pages clean and tight. Owners inscription. Gray Boards Pictorial Front Board gilt edges. 24 unnumbered leaves : illustrations. Includes a list of illustrations: leaves 3-4./ Illustrated cover. Illustrated by Darley and others. Unique and well illustrated title. Porter & Coates hardcover books
184261716New York; Philadelphia: Mr. Quarré; George R. Graham 1842. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in 3/4 contemporary black morocco and marbled boards. Van Wyck bookplate. Corners rubbed some foxing else very good plus. 1 vols. 8vo. FIRST PRINTING OF THE MASK OF RED DEATH. Contains the First Printings of Poe's "Life After Death" April 1842 pp. 200-201 "The Mask of the Red Death. A Fantasy" May 1842 pp. 257-59 and "The Poetry of Rufus Davies" October 1842 pp. 205-209; and numerous reviews by Poe of new works including Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales". Heartman & Canny p. 207-208 Mr. Quarré; George R. Graham 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
1845RPOEAME00RJBGeorge H. Colton 1845. Very Good. Poe Edgar Allen et al. The American Review : A Whig Journal Volume II 2 1845. New York: George H. Colton 1845. 668pp. Indexed. 8vo. Leather with gilt stamping to spine. Book condition: Very good with rubbing to joints and edges. A few light scuffs on covers. Topics and/or contributors include John Jay bear hunting whaling Audubon Texas Mexico heraldry and tobacco. Also includes 'Eulalie' by Poe. George H. Colton 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
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
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
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
