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Tales POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Published by New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845 (1845) Used First Edition Softcover Quantity Available: 1 From: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc., A.B.A.A. (Newton, MA, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Softcover US$ 100,000.00 Convert currency Shipping: US$ 9.00 Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845, 1845. First Edition; first printing (BAL 16146). Bound with the front and back blanks, the half-title and the integral four pages of ads (but not with the additional 16 pages of advertisements) in dark burgundy morocco, decorated in gilt and blind; all edges gilt; raised bands and gilt decorations in compartments; titled in gilt 'Poe's Tales.' Later bookplate; the original owner's name, J.A. Cassedy, is gilt stamped at the bottom of the front inner dentelle; his 1856 Ohio pencil owner's inscription on the half-title confirms that this was bound in America not long after the book's publication. Aside from some foxing and minor page stains, overall an excellent copy with wide and tall margins; in a custom clamshell box. The Bibliography of American Literature, a thorough, detailed and authoritative work, notes three printings of this book (although cautioning that the presumed second and third could prove to be states of a single printing), and notes that the repairs in some examined copies made it difficult to definitely determine 'the relation of printing to binding.' However, the first printing was evidently issued only in publisher's wrappers. Few copies in those wrappers have survived, and only two have appeared at auction in the last couple of decades or more, one of those in shabby, heavily repaired condition. This cataloguer handled a copy in the distant past that lacked the back wrapper; another copy sold long ago was bound complete with the wrappers and all the ads, and although in fine condition, was considerably trimmed. We've had a couple of other first printing copies much like this one, bound from the wrappers, at least one of which was in a binding dated 1905; the other clearly bound later. Of the twelve stories printed, three are the first three detective stories written ('The Murders in the Rue Morgue' was issued in a separate edition in 1843, one of the great rarities of American literature) and this collection is widely considered to be the most important volume of short stories, certainly in American literature, and arguably in the English language. Queen's Quorum No. 1; Haycraft-Queen cornerstone (noting its antecedents by Vidocq and Godwin). Born in Boston and unhappily stationed there in the army, Poe's first book, Tamerlane, was printed only yards from where this cataloguer sits. However, as with Franklin in the previous century and Bloomberg in the following one, his talents were best exercised elsewhere. Dead at forty, Poe in his short, ferocious career, despite a difficult and even dysfunctional upbringing, a troubled love life, and serious health problems, produced a substantial body of praised prose, poetry, and even criticism. The term 'genius' is applied all too often and too easily, but in Poe's case there seems to be no other word to adequately describe him. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Seller Inventory # 34524 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 1.

Seller Image Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque POE, EDGAR ALLAN Published by Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840 (1840) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop (Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine US$ 48,000.00 Convert currency Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840, 1840. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, one of only 750 sets printed. Poe s first collection of prose, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque contains many of Poe s finest tales including The Fall of the House of Usher and MS. Found in a Bottle. The publication of these twenty-five tales marked the culmination of Poe s long struggle to get his prose tales into book form. In 1833-34, Poe had failed to see into print his planned Tales of the Folio Club. Most of these tales, with additions were published as Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. The title is derived from Sir Walter Scott s 1827 essay On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition : the tales of the arabesque are the product of an intense imaginative effort and the tales of the grotesque tend toward satire or burlesque. In the preface to the collection, Poe defends himself from those critics who have charged him with Germanism and gloom, writing, If in many of my productions, terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul, that I have deduced this terror only from its legitimate sources, and urged it only to its legitimate results. Poe s only remuneration for the publication of these 25 tales was twenty copies of the book. Profits, if any were ever realized, were retained by Lea & Blanchard. Although the title-page is dated 1840, the book was actually published at the end of 1839. Though defective and badly worn sets of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque turn up occasionally, collector s quality examples in unrestored condition are difficult to find. This is one of the two best copies we have seen in thirty years. Two volumes. Original purple muslin, paper spine labels. Page 213 of vol. 2 can occur with the numbers 213 (as in the present copy) or 231. Current scholarship, most notably BAL (v. 7, 1983), does not assign priority to either state. Minor foxing, light rubbing and fraying to cloth and labels, early owner s signature in the second volume. Spines faded. A fine, tight, unrestored copy. Half morocco slipcase. Seller Inventory # ABE-1585156805326 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 2.

Seller Image Tales. POE, Edgar Allan. Published by New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845 (1845) Used First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB. (London, United Kingdom) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used US$ 36,465.12 Convert currency Shipping: US$ 18.02 From United Kingdom to U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845, 1845. Octavo (180 x 115 mm). Early 20th-century blue morocco, titles to spine in gilt, spine elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments with raised bands, triple rule gilt frames and decorative cornerpieces to covers in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, turn-ins rolled in gilt. Bound without the advertisements, as often. From the noted library of Frederic R. Kirkland (1887-1961) with his bookplate to front pastedown. Near-contemporary gift inscription to first blank, "Bruce L. Thomas to J. J. Lindman". Tissue reinforcements to inner hinges, skilful paper restoration to half-title and title page. Spine gently toned, negligible rubbing to extremities; a handsome, bright, copy. First edition, first printing, with the New York imprint, one of 1,500 copies issued; this copy with the half-title present. This collection of 12 tales features some of Poe's most significant fantastical stories, such as the horrific "The Black Cat", which contains "a complementary mixture of supernaturalism and dramatic irony" (Magill, p. 1674), the "mature fantasy" of "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the "proto-science fiction" of "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" and "Mesmeric Revelation" (Magill, p. 1667). The theme of this final story "had great influence in the development of modern supernatural fiction, particularly that of the school of Lovecraft" (Bleiler). The collection was selected by the editor Evert Augustus Duyckinck and revised by Poe to produce a cohesive work. Poe's Tales were warmly received and praised on the front page of the New York Tribune, its success proving "a vindication of Poe's move to New York" (Collins, p. 70). BAL 16146; Bleiler 1315; Paul Collins, Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living, 2014; Magill, Survey of Modern Fantasy literature, vol. IV, pp. 1665-78. Seller Inventory # 136458 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 4.

Seller Image Tales. Poe, Edgar Allan Published by Wiley and Putnam, New York (1845) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB (Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover US$ 35,000.00 Convert currency Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: Wiley and Putnam, New York, 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). Seller Inventory # 95139 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 5.

Seller Image Tales POE, EDGAR ALLAN Published by London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845 (1845) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop (Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover

Condition: Fine US$ 35,000.00 Convert currency Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845, 1845. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, ENGLISH ISSUE with the cancel London title page. This is an excellent copy of one of the rarest forms of Poe s Tales, issued in the original cloth from the American sheets with a London title page. Here begins the detective story, with The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and, primus inter pares, the character of the amateur detective who triumphs over the blundering police in The Purloined Letter. The earlier Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque contains a larger number of the Poe tales of horror, which are still the artistic standard for that school, but this volume adds The Fall of the House of Usher, The Descent into the Maelstrom, and The Gold Bug (Grolier/American). Poe s literary career reached its high point in 1845 with the publication of Tales (June) and The Raven and Other Poems (November). Tales included the detective stories Poe had perfected over the past few years as well as many of his tales of horror and suspense. Poe revised the stories carefully for this volume, making it the standard text for many of his most famous tales. Poe valued the tale over the novel in part because a tale can be appreciated in its totality in a single sitting. In a review of Nathaniel Hawthorne s Twice-Told Tales, Poe wrote, the tale proper, in my opinion, affords unquestionably the fairest field for the exercise of the loftiest talent, which can be afforded by the wide domains of mere prose. Ellery Queen described the volume as the first important book of detective stories, the first and the greatest, the cornerstone of cornerstones in any readers or collectors guide, the highspot of highspots, while bookseller A.S.W. Rosenbach called it the greatest volume of short stories ever to appear from the hand of man. Original green cloth. Some foxing, minor wear. An excellent copy with the cloth in splendid condition. Seller Inventory # ABE-1564604258323 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 6.

Seller Image Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque POE, Edgar Allan Published by Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia (1840) Used First Edition Softcover Quantity Available: 1 From: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Softcover US$ 32,500.00 Convert currency Shipping: US$ 5.00 Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1840. 2 volumes, 12mo (19.3 x 11 cm). 243; iv (advertisements, 228 pages. Original purple muslin, printed paper spine labels; cloth folding case. 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. FIRST EDITION, one of only an estimated 750 copies printed, with p. 213 correctly numbered. 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. 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. BAL 16133; Heartman & Canny, pp. 49-54. Increasingly scarce, and especially so in original condition. 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. Seller Inventory # 406591 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 7.

Seller Image TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE. Two Volumes POE, Edgar Allan Published by Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia (1840) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 2 From: Antic Hay Books (Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover US$ 20,000.00 Convert currency Shipping: US$ 4.75 Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1840. POE, Edgar Allan. TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE. Two Volumes. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. . Very Good (covers nice and professionally reattached by a notable bookbinder; little occasional scattered foxing). Enclosed in a handsome cloth & leather clamshell box. [See images]. $20,000.00. Small octavos, fine-grained brown full- levant morocco leather with gilt borders on covers & gilt-tooled spines; marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; 243 pages & 228 pages. Binding by Alfred Matthews First Edition.First Edition, with page 213 correctly numbered rather than having "321"; with the "i" in "ing" present on the thirteenth sentence from the bottom of page 219; and with the hyphen at the end of the sixth sentence up on the same page located in its proper place. A front blank page in Vol. 1 is lacking. [BAL 16133]. John W. Robertson's bibliography of Poe (which gives the best of these copies several years ago, inscribed by Poe and with an unknown original poem]. From the distinguished collection of important 19th Century Literature of Charles B. Foote, with his personal bookplate on the front pastedown in each volume. Foote's collection was auctioned in 1894 and this item, which originally included an original prospectus of "The Stylus" with five lines written by Poe in pencil, was lot #210.collation) states that the earliest issue has page 213 misnumbered. Only 750 copies of the first edition were published- contains stories like "William Wilson" and "MS. Found In A Bottle." Lea and Blanchard decided to print the book after the success of Poe's story "The Fall Of The House Of Usher." However, Poe was to receive no royalties except for 20 free leather-bound copies, of which only a few remain today. Seller Inventory # 4792 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 10.

Seller Image Eureka: A Prose Poem. Poe, Edgar Allan Published by George P. Putnam, New York (1848) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB (Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover US$ 17,500.00 Convert currency Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: George P. Putnam, New York, 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. Seller Inventory # 37022 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 11.

Seller Image The Raven. And Other Poems. Poe, Edgar Allan Published by Wiley and Putnam, New York (1845) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB (Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover US$ 10,000.00 Convert currency Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1845. Rare first edition in book form of Poe's famed work. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. In very good condition with some light foxing and usual wear. BAL 16147. The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. Biographer Hervey Allen: The most important volume of poetry that had been issued up to that time in America. In this little volume the weary, wayworn wanderer had successfully reached his own native shore in the realm of imagination" (Grolier, 100 American 56). Poe considered "The Raven" to be his finest poem--indeed, he was quoted as saying it was the finest poem ever written. Seller Inventory # 111538 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 14.

Seller Image The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe, Edgar Allan Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons [1884], New York (1884) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 From: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB (Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover US$ 9,500.00 Convert currency Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1884], New York, 1884. The Amontillado edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, 8 volumes bound in full morocco by P.B. Sanford with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in 6 compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume by R. Swain Gifford, Frederick Church and others, etched engraved vignettes to the title pages. One of 315 numbered copies signed and dated by the publisher on the limitation leaf of each volume, this is number 290. In fine condition. Rare and desirable. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, American Romantic writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the genre of detective fiction and contributing to the genre of science fiction, only just emerging at the turn of the 20th century. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe's most memorable tales include: The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Gold-Bug, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, and The Tell-Tale Heart. Seller Inventory # 118042 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 16.

Seller Image Eureka: A Prose Poem POE, EDGAR ALLAN Published by New York: Putnam (1848) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop (Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine US$ 7,500.00 Convert currency Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: New York: Putnam, 1848. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (i.e. without the review for Eureka on page 2 of the 16 pp catalogue). This is one of only 500 copies of Poe s last book. To the few who love me and whom I love to those who seek rather than to those who think to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities I offer this book of truths . . . Preface to Eureka Poe considered Eureka his magnum opus. Putnam recalled that Poe visited him with a somewhat nervous and agitated manner and proposed a first edition of 50,000 copies. Putnam agreed to publish 500 copies. Eureka has often been misunderstood, but it is in fact a remarkable precursor of several modern theories of physics and a powerful essay on the material and spiritual universe. For example, a March 19, 1991 New York Times article on the dark-sky or Olber s paradox the question of why the sky is dark at night mentions Poe. According to Olber s paradox, if one assumes that the stars are essentially infinite in number and distributed uniformly, then the night sky should be ablaze with light rather than shrouded in darkness. Today s generally accepted explanation for this contradiction between logic and observation depends on two facts: the fixed speed of light, which implies that some light has yet to arrive here; and the aging of galaxies, with the implication that they can put out only a finite amount of light. Poe s formulation was strikingly similar, for he 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. Original black cloth (binding A). Spine ends neatly restored, scar to upper board. Even browning to text. An attractive copy. Half morocco case. Seller Inventory # ABE-1573758863971 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 19.

Seller Image Eureka: A Prose Poem POE, Edgar Allan Published by George P. Putnam, New York (1848) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover US$ 6,500.00 Convert currency Shipping: US$ 5.00 Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: George P. Putnam, New York, 1848. 12mo. Original black cloth. FIRST EDITION of Poe's last book, a cosmological prose-poem printed in an edition of only 500 copies. Early critics were widely divided on Poe's text, some awed by its convolutions, while others harshly condemned its science and method. It was seen as absurd by some, including friends, and its seriousness was even questioned due to Poe's inaccurate assumptions and comedic portrayals of famous historical thinkers. In the 20th century, it received greater attention in the English-speaking world, largely after W. H. Auden praised its style and acknowledged its "relevance to the bulk of Poe's earlier work-both poetry and prose." In France, its positive reception came much faster: Baudelaire's 1859 translation proved of great influence on the Symbolists, who found fertile inspiration in its two principal themes: the value of intuition for scientific discovery, and the affinity between consciousness and the cosmos. Paul Valery concluded that "Poe has extended the application both of the nebular hypothesis and the law of gravity. On these mathematical foundations he has built an abstract poem, one of the rare modern examples of a . cosmogony . one of the oldest of all literary forms." BAL 16153; Heartman & Canny 121-124. Cloth skilfully conserved, a very attractive copy. Seller Inventory # 406587 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 22.

Seller Image Murders in the Rue Morgue in Graham's Magazine Poe, Edgar Allan Published by Graham's Magazine (1841) Used Hardcover First Edition Quantity Available: 1 From: Bookbid (Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover

Condition: Good US$ 5,000.00 Convert currency Shipping: US$ 6.00 Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: Graham's Magazine, 1841. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 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, [1]pp., 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. Seller Inventory # 1608325 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 24.

Seller Image The Works of the Late Edgar Allen Poe (4 vols) POE, Edgar Allan Published by J. S. Redfield, New York (1850) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 From: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.) Seller Rating: Add to Basket Used Hardcover US$ 4,500.00 Convert currency Shipping: US$ 5.00 Within U.S.A. Destination, rates & speeds About this Item: J. S. Redfield, New York, 1850. Four volumes, 12mo. Half-titles in vols. 1 and 4 as issued. Frontispiece portrait of Poe by J. Sartain in volume 1, with tissue guard (offsetting onto title). Original black blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spines (vols. 1-3); the fourth volume in contemporary black cloth without embossing, gilt-lettered on spine. FIRST EDITIONS, second printings of vols. 1-3, vols. 1-3 in binding E (signed by Geo. W. Alexander); first edition of vol. 4 in a binding not identified in BAL; advertisements in vols. 1 and 4 as called for. Poe's wife, Virginia Clemm, assigned her rights in the edition to the publisher Redfield for a small fee, and supplied the Notice to the Reader in vol. 1. She regretted both after Griswold's scandalous portrait of Poe appeared in vol. 3. The first volume contains the Tales and the second Poems and Miscellanies. The third volume was published separately and comprises the first edition of The Literati, and includes Griswold's infamous sketch of the author. The first three volumes were published in 1850; the fourth volume was not published until 1856. It became the standard edition of Poe's works for 25 years, and served as the model for nearly another quarter of a century. It is also the edition upon which Charles Baudelaire based his famous translations of Poe's works into French in Histoires Extraordinaires (1856), Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires (1857) and Histoires Grotesques et Serieuses (1865). BAL 16158, 16159 and 16161; Heartman & Canny, pp. 129-33. Complete sets of Poe's Works are now quite scarce. Volume 1 with losses along joints and chips at ends of spine; other volumes with small chips and losses; volume 4 with brittle and browned endleaves. Seller Inventory # 406592 More information about this seller | Contact this seller 27.