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1845319132New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First Edition with half-title. viii 91 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full green morocco a.e.g. Spine sunned some foxing throughout; pencilled note on flyleaf stating that the binding was executed in 1896. Near fine. First Edition with half-title. viii 91 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Edition. Students all over the world know of the title poem and many know others as well: "The Conqueror Worm" "Eulalie" "Leonore" "To Helen" etc.<br/><br/>"The most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time in America" Hervey Allen Israfel The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe New York 1926 vol. 2 p. 667. The Raven and Other Poems was published in November 1845 in an edition of some 750 copies; it was dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and contains 30 poems including "The Raven" "Eulalia" "Tamerlane" "Al Aaraff" and "To Helen" etc. The title poem was first printed in the American Review for January 1845; it "made Poe's name known both in America and England and brought him an immortality that by no other means could he have attained . and it gave him fame as a poet such as no other American has received" John W. Robertson A Bibliography of the Writings of . Poe San Francisco 1934 vol. 2 pp. 224-225. Grolier American 56; BAL 16147; Heartman & Canny pp. 97-108; Robertson vol. 2 pp. 224-225 Wiley and Putnam unknown books
18451001883New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century first published earlier that year in the New York Evening Mirror under Poe's own name and The American Review under a pseudonym. Partly inspired by the early lyrics of Elizabeth Barrett later Browning to whom he dedicated this volume of poems Poe composed "The Raven" in trochaic octometer with a deranged musicality all his own. The elements are familiar even to those who don't read poetry: the "midnight dreary" the silk-curtained chamber the raven perched upon the bust of Athena the relentless refrain that drives the narrator mad. "'Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! / Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! / Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door!' / Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'" Even before publication Poe knew he had a sensation on his hands. When a friend described an early reading of the poem as "fine uncommonly fine" Poe responded: "Is that all you can say for this poem I tell you it's the greatest poem ever written." Poe's fame only increased with the appearance of contemporary parodies like "The Owl" and "The Polecat": a contemporary recalls "'The Raven' became known everywhere and everyone was saying 'Nevermore.'" The publication of "The Raven" paved the way for Wiley and Putnam's publication of Poe's Tales the collection that introduced his pioneering detective fiction to a wider audience that same year. BAL 16147. A near-fine copy of a landmark in American literature. Octavo measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 6 91 1. Early twentieth-century full russet calf boards single-ruled in gilt raised bands black morocco spine labels spine single-ruled and lettered in gilt gilt dentelles marbled endpapers. Handwritten slip tipped onto second fly leaf noting "inner gilt dentelles by Zaehnsdorf." Lacking original wrappers half title and ads. Joints expertly repaired a few light scratches to lower board. Wiley and Putnam unknown books
200184608Boston:: Little Brown. Near Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 0821227726 . Stated first edition. Remainder mark on bottom edge else near fine in black and gray cloth. No dust jacket. . Little, Brown, hardcover books
1884008667New York: Harper & Brother Publishers 1884. Original embossed beveled grey cloth stamped in gilt all edges gilt dark brown end papers. 23 pp. text plus 26 engraved plates by Doré each with descriptive caption on facing page. Very Good Plus 1/4" tears to cloth at fore edges of boards light soiling to boards internally clean and lovely with solid hinges a much nicer copy than commonly encountered. . First American Edition with Dore Illustr. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Harper & Brother Publishers Hardcover books
18452105012Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1845. 2nd. hardcover. very good. Poe's The Purloined Letter in The Gift 2nd edition with four additional plates 8 plates in first edition. No date on title page. Book very good some foxing of front free end papers title page and content page; some rubbing and wear; inscription by previous owner on front free end paper. Carey and Hart unknown books
1887245697New York: Benjamin & Bell 1887. paperback. very good. With an Introductory Argument to prove that "Lavante" was Poe and Appendix of Notes by Geoffrey Quarles. 12mo printed wrappers; uncut and unopened; dust soiled. New York: Benjamin & Bell 1887. Reprint of the 1847 edition "with a supposedly plausible but really weak argument in support of Poe's authorship." - Heartman & Canny page 240.<br/><br/> Benjamin & Bell unknown books
1859273571New York. : Redfield. 1859. Publisher’s blindstamped blue cloth gilt spine title all edges gilt. . Very good spine darkened light wear to extremities front inner hinge starting ink name to second endpaper. small 8vo. 14.5x8.5 cm. A nice copy of an early edition of Poe’s poetry. weight: 0.5 lb. Portrait frontis. Redfield. hardcover books
116329New York: Hodder and Stoughton No Date. Hardbound. Very clean and tight but for ex-lib. sticker on spine and bookplate inside front cover;. Dulac Edmund. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and black decoration; 46 poems and 28 illustrations; fabulous endpapers decorated with bells; no page numbers;. Stunning color illustrations by Edmund Dulac of Poe's haunting poetry. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books
186825606Melbourne: George Robertson 1868. 1st edition thus BAL 16215. "Australian Edition". Original green cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Yellow eps. Overall VG avg binding wear/some soiling & staining to a few preliminary leaves/period pos to ffep. viii 9 - 144 pp. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/> George Robertson hardcover books
186815360Melbourne: George Robertson 1868. First Australian edition. pp. i-viii 9-144. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher's green cloth quite worn and soiled endpapers abraded small hole in title-leaf New Zealand bookseller's stamp on first two leaves. A well-worn but sound copy of this scarcity. First Australian edition. pp. i-viii 9-144. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First Australian edition! BAL 16215 George Robertson unknown books
49908Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press nd. First edition. 95 pp. Near fine in near fine publisher’s slipcase with a small crack. Poems with wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller. Inked ownership name and bookplate to the front endpapers of Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone. Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press unknown books
199150449New York: South Street Seaport Museum 1991. Edition limited to 150 copies signed by DePol; 8vo pp. 6 22 4; title page printed in red and black 8 wood engravings by DePol who also designed the patterned endpapers; original black cloth with printed red wraparound label on spine; fine. Designed and printed at Bowne & Co. Stationers by Barbara Henry and Lissa Dodington. <br/><br/> South Street Seaport Museum hardcover books
183719474Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Merrihew & Gunn 1837. First edition. Boards soiled and spotted and the edges rubbed; spine split nearly the length of the joint and front board loose; some light foxing throughout; a good sound copy only. 12mo original rose linen spine printed drab boards 84 pages. Poe enthusiast Joseph Jackson was fresh off his triumphant 1920 attribution to Poe of the uncommon pseudonymous anti-Dickens English Notes Boston 1842 by "Quarles Quickens" when in Jackson's own words "the publicity given that discovery set a good many booksellers delving for copies. One Philadelphia bookseller who had not been fortunate enough to uncover a copy . . . did run across an anonymous little book which seemed to him to have a Poesque touch although he could not exactly explain why he was thus impressed. He had no knowledge of the copy which came into his possession but when I was looking over his stock he handed it to me with the remark: 'This looks as if it was written by Poe.'" From this characteristic bookseller remark--a certain offhand scholarly optimism cloaked in the guise of expertise with enough of modesty to serve as a disclaimer and nothing so vulgar here as the mention of a profit--there of course soon burst a moderate boom for this title. In the foreword to the new edition of the Philosophy of Animal Magnetism Philadelphia 1928 which inevitably followed Jackson makes a show of professing a suitably demure initial skepticism before launching into a series of confident assertions regarding Poe's identity as the author--Poe must have visited Philadelphia in 1837 as he had nothing else much better to do; the address of the printers in Carter's Alley puts them on the same block as the editor Samuel Atkinson which "would suggest that Poe had called on Atkinson and that the latter had referred him to the printers as likely to publish the book;" the use of italics and small capitals for emphasis is particularly characteristic of Poe "It is true that his publishers in later years dispensed with the use of small capitals but the printers of 'Animal Magnetism' Merrihew and Gunn Philadelphia were a new firm and did not remain long in business. They evidently followed the author's copy literally"; the appearance of the word "Literati" in the dedication to the receptive mind inevitably suggests Poe etc. etc. Jackson's case was sufficiently convincing to collector J. K. Lilly who reportedly paid $2500 for a copy of the first edition of The Philosophy of Animal Magnetism and--given the well-known difficulties of proving a negative allied to the book trade's understandable reluctance to give up a profitable attribution--later bibliographers have seemed equivocal about showing Jackson's claims the door. BAL vol. 7 page 150 notes "Jackson attributes this piece . . . to Poe" thus leaving outside the Poe canon while bibliographer of animal magnetism Adam Crabtree remarks "Although there is no general agreement on the matter this book has been attributed to Edgar Allan Poe." Scribner in 1941 offered a copy of the first edition for the then-substantial sum of $175 under the fig leaf of "Attributed by some authorities to the pen of Poe." Only Merle Johnson seems to have sufficient temerity to note as early as 1936 that this title "is now definitely established as not the work of Poe." All this having been said still an interesting early American work on the subject including instructions on how to induce magnetic somnambulism. Crabtree 385. Printed and Published by Merrihew & Gunn, unknown books
1928279090Philadelphia: Patterson & White 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An unnumbered Review Copy signed by Joseph Jackson with "Review Copy" written in his hand. Blue paper-covered board with paper title labels; some light and scattered foxing. Prospectus for the book is laid in. Very Good binding. Patterson & White unknown books
2010282366Cambridge: D. S. Brewer 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. A fresh clean copy. Bound in blue hardcover with minor shelfwear to the extremities. Volume 18 of the Gallica series. Near Fine binding. D. S. Brewer unknown books
19732307501Boston Massachusetts: David R. Godine 1973. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. One of 3000 copies. Multiple tears to jacket some previously mended with tape on jacket reverse. Pencil name on front free endpaper. 1973 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv 157 pp. "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" the only full-length novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote is the story of a boy Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship. Along with Augustus the captain's son Arthur Gordon Pym avoids discover aboard the ship while witnessing a series of incredible events. Rich with symbolism and allegory "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" is an exciting gothic sea adventure that greatly influenced the genre of the maritime novel. David R. Godine hardcover books
19302027New York: The Heritage Press 1930 Designs by Rene Clarke. Marbled boards. White cloth spine. Spine darkened else a fine copy in slipcase. Slipcase has a small spot to fore edge. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Illus. by Clarke Rene. The Heritage Press hardcover books
193045194NY: Heritage Press 1930. Book Club edition. Clarke Rene. Large 8vo pp. xvi 267. With illustrations by Rene Clark and an introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. Heritage Club flyer laid in. Marbled paper over boards with white cloth spine and black lettering. Spine sunned o/w a nice copy in slightly chipped slipcase. One of Poe's early works a tale of shipwreck plague and various other horrors. Heritage Press unknown books
190522778Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons n.d. ca. 1905. Later printing. Slim folio 30cm.; original brown cloth unadorned spine; 6&171 leaves in facsimile. Spine ends a bit rubbed else Very Good and sound. BAL 16234. George Barrie & Sons unknown books
18411610315George R. Graham 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. These stories are the first appearances of Poe's works: The Murders in the Rue Morgue A Descent into the Malstrom The islands of the Fay The Coloquy of Monos and Una Never Bet the Devil Your Head Israfel. In Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. Large thick quarto full maroon calf. Publisher's deluxe binding. Covers with decorative borders stamped in gilt and blind. Gilt-decorated turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments. All edges gilt. Plate tissues moderately foxed else contents especially clean and fresh. A beautiful very good plus copy. Previous owner's small bookplate attached to front paste-down rear cover slightly separating at bottom. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. George R. Graham hardcover books
WN44531Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons Original half brown morocco gilt with green marbled paper covered boards. Gilt spine title is directly on spine. Some chipping at morocco/paper joints and foxing on boards. Insect activity on foreedge of last postliminary. Some foxing throughout mainly in gutter. A facsimile of the manuscript which was in the Drexel Institute at the time of publication. Acquired from a member of the Barrie family; binding not in BAL 6234 and is a presumed publisher's binding. Facsimile Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Facsimile. George Barrie & Sons Hardcover books
20158922Loket Czech Republic: Sobota 2015. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Chest. Tight bright and unmarred. Dark navy leather boards complex structure with 'window'ed effect on inner fold of board. leather binding strap blue ink lettering marbled endpages; matching archiaval box. np. Numbered limited edition of 13. Signed by the artist. Laid in pamplet. <br/><br/> Sobota hardcover books
18422102108Philadelphia: Graham's 1842. First appearance of this story. hardcover. Very good. A very good copy in original decorated covers with new leather matching spine. the first appearance of this Poe classic tale. Graham's unknown books
1981161663Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1981. Leather bound. Fine. Clean tight unread copy. Pristine. Slate grey leather/boards. Gilt decoration all around with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. 382 pp. with archival bw illustrations of Frederick Simpson Coburn. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers with matching satin place-holder ribbon. No dust jacket as issued. Limited Edition published for the subscribers to The Collector's Library of The World's Best-Loved Books. The Franklin Library hardcover books
18421501726Graham 1842. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The true first appearance of this classic tale by Edgar Allen Poe in Vol. 20 of Graham's Magazine. Contains other works by Poe including Life in Death and To One Departed. The Mask begins on page 257. Good only condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Graham hardcover books
