edgar allan poe the raven, Erstausgabe (30 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Steven Parke (illustrator). First edition. Fine, fresh, bright hardcover graphic novel. Very good dust jacket overall, the only significant flaw being an approx 4" tear to upper front flap. Presumed first edition (unstated). A dark story that reads like a personal diary penned by Poe himself, which sheds new light on the shadowy poet's darkest moments. He describes forbidden and incestuous love, supernatural torment, and insanity brought on either by genius or failure. Vibrantly illustrated in full-color, full-page artwork by Steven Parke.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. A suspense novel set in Richmond, Virginia, with its roots in madness - "Eddie Polk believes that he has lived before. He believes that he is Edgar Allen Poe and that Ginnie, his young cousin, is the reincarnation of Poe's thirteen-year-old bride. 174 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Allan Guy. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (creasing to front flap of dj.) Rather hard to find, especially in this condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First UK edition-first printing. Fine condition.Little, Brown,2005.First UK edition-first printing.Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in fine condition.Nice and clean pages as new with two small nicks on the edges,light shelf wear on the Dj cover.Nice and clean book.345pp.Price un-clipped.First edition. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: The specter of Edgar Allan Poe hovers, chillingly, over bestseller Fairstein's seventh thriller featuring Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper. Alex's labyrinthine path to a serial killer travels through a lot of forensic evidence and two initially unconnected cases: the Silk Stocking rapist is terrorizing women after a few years' respite and a woman's skeleton is discovered in the wall of an East Village building. Said discovery takes on additional dimension when it's learned that the victim was walled up alive and that the house was once inhabited by Poe. Freelance writer Emily Upshaw appears, at first glance, to be the Silk Stocking rapist's latest victim, but several details feel off to Alex and NYPD detective sidekicks Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace. Emily, it's determined, is the victim of a copycat, but she does have a tenuous link to Poe and to a secret organization called the Raven Society. These are the puzzle pieces that Alex and company work with, in a tale that develops like the proverbial peeled onion, a layer at a time. Alex, fresh from a breakup, also continues her unconsummated flirtation with Mike. It's a tribute to Fairstein's integrity and her clear, measured prose that the novel never tips into prurience. Her methodical presentation of authentic detail engages reader interest more than narrative flourish or cheap thrills. She's the real deal.

Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Newspaper clipping of book review tipped in. Writing inside. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his signature on his personalized bookplate on front pastedown. (Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Authorship, Criticism).

Paperback/garenloos. Zustand: Net exemplaar. 1e druk. 'Mini-biografie'. Met een nieuwe vertaling van 'The raven' door Carel Alphenaar. (Twee-talig). Omslagillustratie: Ermo Verkerk: 'Edgar Allan Poe', olieverf. Met bibliografie. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was een Amerikaans schrijver en dichter. Hij werkte ook als literair criticus en redacteur en was een van de eerste Amerikaanse schrijvers die van de pen probeerden te leven, waardoor hij een moeilijk leven leidde. Hij speelde een belangrijke rol bij het ontstaan van de mode van cryptogrammen in kranten en tijdschriften. 95 pag. Size: 14cmx10cm.

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.

8°. 22 x 20,5 cm. 9 gefaltete Blätter, 1 Blatt. Original-Pappmappe mit 4 gefalteten und eingelegten Papierbögen. Nummer 781 von 810 (gesamt 840) nummerierten Exemplaren. Zweisprachige Ausgabe in Französisch und Englisch. Mappe lichtrandig, mit Knickspuren und Randläsuren. Erstes Blatt minimalst stockfleckig, Blattecken knickspurig. Gutes bis sehr gutes Exemplar. Number 781 of 810 (total 840) copies of the edition. Bilingual edition in French and English. Original cardboard folder with 4 folded and inserted sheets. Folder lighty, with crease marks and marginal blemishes. First sheet minimal foxy, the corners with crease marks. Nearly fine copy. Sprache: Englisch und Französisch.

Pp. / Exlibrisstempel. Zustand: Gut. 1. Aufl. 91 S. : Ill. ; 19 cm The raven Sprache: Deutsch.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Ominous, N.: Cover (illustrator). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Confessions from the Black Lagoon; The Memoirs of Gilbert "Gill" Gillman; Revenge of the Creatures; Tarzan's Writer/Artist Joe Kubert Tells All in Exclusive Interview; Star Trek Revisited; Superheroes of the 70's; Esquire Ogles Monsterdom; Mushroom Monsters or The Day the World Ended & Ended, Part 3; ABC - Atomics & Beasts = Creepy Creatures; Great color monster centerfold; Slay it Again, Sam - Bogey's Only Monster Film; Roger Corman Meets Edgar Allan Poe (part 2); A Gnowing Obsession, Chapter 2; The Raven; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Moderately age-toned. A quality copy.

Pp. Zustand: Gut. 1. Aufl. 91 S. : Ill. ; 19 cm The raven Sprache: Deutsch.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this biography of Poe from Philip Lindsay. Including a photographic frontispiece of Poe. In a blue cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, though with some slight edgewear. Dustwrapper is sound, though foxed, and with some darkening to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, and quite clean, though with some light spotting to the fore-edge. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Facsimile of the 1875 edition, with a new foreword by Philip Hofer. Illustrated by Édouard Manet. French translation by Stéphane Mallarmé. Slim quarto. Facing English and French text. Trifle bumped at the corners and spine ends and tiniest tear at the crown, near fine in a moderately tanned, very good dust jacket with a tiny tear on the rear panel and a bit of cover soil. Copy 611 of 1,000 copies printed. Not marked, but from the library of Poe scholar and former U.S. Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman, with an exhibition label laid in, noting it is from his personal collection. Also laid in are three Edgar Allan Poe 3-Cent first day covers.

First Edition Two volumes in red cloth with gilt lettering on black backgound on spines and black raven design on upper boards. Royal octavo. xxviii, 664. Illustrated with plates. In slipcase (slipcase rubbed). Very good, clean, crisp, tight set, scarce.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 12 issues in one volume: Vol. 9, Nos. 1-6 (144pp.); Vol. 8, Nos. 1-6 (144pp.). Octavo. Illustrated with six hand-colored plates and four steel engraved plates (including two by "Phiz"). Bound in contemporary straight-grain half morocco and cloth over boards, spine stamped in silver. The boards are rubbed with modest wear to the spine and edges of the boards, some toning and scattered foxing, the engraved frontispiece plate is trimmed along the fore-edge, a good or better copy. Contains an early reprint of Poe's *The Raven* (Vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 139-141). Also included is an early appearance of Longfellow's *The Occultation of Orion*, printed under the title: "The Reign of Violence is O'er". An attractive custom bound volume of this scarce Woman's magazine, featuring an early printing of Poe's great poem together with very fine hand-colored plates of flowers and birds. *Heartman and Canny* 218.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Ferdinand Huszti Horvath (illustrator). First edition thus. Quarto [26.5 cm] Black cloth over boards, with decorative gilt stamping on the front board. Light bumping to the spine ends and corners at the tips. Some general shelfwear to the dust jacket, with a bit of shallow chipping, soiling to the rear panel, and a few discreet tape mends to the verso. Not often seen with the jacket. With 19 full-page Illustrations in black and white by Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. Horvath (1891-1973) was a Hungarian-born, New York-based sketch artist, who was active in film from the early 1920s to early 1940s. Notably, he worked as a sketch artist for Walt Disney from 1933 to 1937, bringing a European style to the Disney films. He worked on many Disney shorts, including Salt Water Taffy (1930). He is perhaps best remembered for his uncredited work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Horvath's enthusiasm for Poe's masterpiece began when he was introduced to it as a schoolboy, but it was not until the artist's captivity in Russia during the First World War that the idea of an illustrated edition evolved into a series of rough outline sketches. Horvath is featured in John Canemaker's book, "Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists.".

Hardcover. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. Small Octavo. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's full brown cloth. Pictorial Boards have light scuffs and rubbing wear, minor fraying to most extremities, and mild bending wear along the spine head and tail edges and fore corners. Textblock has gilt edges, inscription from a previous owner on the front-end page, mild chipping along the front end-page, mild plus foxing and stains on some pages throughout, splitting along the gutter between the front end-page to half title page, and between the rear end-page and illustration page. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 0. 1392892. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First editions of both titles. Tales, third printing with three-line copyright; Raven with name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; both half titles present: "Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books" Tales: [viii] [1]-228; Raven: [i-viii] [1]-91 [92, blank] [93-96, 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 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). 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." All three are intact here; the battered running heads on p. 187 and 224 conform with BAL. A MAJOR WORK BY POE, IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. BAL 16146, 16147; Heartman & Canny 92-94, 97-108; Grolier American, 56 Original blue green cloth, spine titled in gilt, boards stamped in blind, endpapers stamped in stars and dots pattern. Recased with expert conservation repair to spine ends and corners, paper repair to binder's blank. Manuscript identification of poem To on p. 87 of the Raven Tales: [viii] [1]-228; Raven: [i-viii] [1]-91 [92, blank] [93-96, ads]. 1 vols. 8vo First editions of both titles. Tales, third printing with three-line copyright; Raven with name of stereotyper T. B. Smith on the title verso; both half titles present: "Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books".

Bookman's Wake, A Mystery: First edition. Pp.352. 160 x 238 mms. 8vo., spine of black goatskin and patterned tinted calf sections, black goatskin foredge strip, upper and lower boards covered in parchment overprinted with reverse images of various typefaces each side with a central panel of grey calf, inlaid with calf circles of metallic silver and bronze each with a letter in black, attractive handpainted vellum doublures, black and red painted edges. The Raven: Illustrations by George Tute. Pp. [29]. 80 x 110 mms. 16mo., a single section binding of patterned tinted calf spine with black morocco foredge, boards covered in parchment, overprinted with reverse images of various typfaces, handpainted paper underlays on both sides, handpainted endpapers, black metallic painted edges. Both housed in the original special folding box with internal lid which contains hidden beneath the main book, the small copy of The Raven. The Bookman's Wake is a murder mystery set in the world of Private Presses and printers. The story revolves around the search for a very rare edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, printed by the Grayson Press.not mentioned in any bibliography, copies of this book would be worth a fortune to collectors, should they ever be available. Stephen Conway is a bookbinder of some standing in the UK. Having served a five-year apprenticeship, Stephen worked at the Scolar Press fine bindery, Ilkley and Smith Settle, Otley, before establishing his own business in 1985. He currently runs a bindery in Halifax, West Yorkshire, working mainly on private press editions, presentation work, commissions and design binding. In 1998 he won the Designer Bookbinders medal, and in 2000 was elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders. His design bindings are housed in private collections and institutions worldwide, including The British Library and The National Library of Scotland. These two bindings accomplished and inventive bindings were completed in 2002.

Rare first editions of Poe's two great collections of stories and poems, bound together in the original publisher's cloth. Octavo, original publisher's dark green cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, publisher's advertisements at rear of each volume which are most often lacking with both volumes bound together. Wiley and Putnam issued both titles separately in paper wrappers, but bound the two together for additional appeal to readers. The Raven is bound first in this copy (the order varies); that work is arguably the widest read and best-known in the American canon. Tales includes "The "The Black Cat", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Descent Into the Maelstrom" and other tales of horror and adventure, as well as the three Dupin stories contained here for the first time in book form and considered "the first important book of detective stories, the first and greatest, the cornerstone of cornerstones.the highest of all high spots" (Queen's Quorum 1). In very good condition. Tales bears the third issue of the copyright notice. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase. Rare and desirable in the original publisher's cloth. The Raven and Other Poems âwas published at one of the low ebbs of Poeâs fortunes, when his Broadway Journal was about to expire, and is thus characterized by his 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 imaginationâ (Grolier, 100 American 56). Poe considered âThe Ravenâ to be his finest poemâ"indeed, he was quoted as saying it was the finest poem ever written. Dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Barrett and first published by Wiley & Putnam in November 1845 in an edition of roughly 750 copies, The Raven and Other Poems "made Poe's name known both in America and England, and brought him an immortality that by no other means could he have attained" (Robertson, 224).

First edition of one of Browning's finest collections, in the primary binding with pale cream-colored endpapers. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's olive green cloth stamped in blind, gilt titles to the spines. In good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. A collection of fifty-one poems in two volumes, Browning's Men and Women contains some of the best of his poetry including "Love Among the Ruins," "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Any Wife to any Husband," and "The Statue and the Bust." It was his first published work after a five year hiatus, and his first collection of shorter poems since his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett (to whom Edgar Allan Poe dedicated The Raven) in 1846.

First appearance in print of The Raven, one of the most famous and recognizable poems ever written, which Poe considered his finest poem, calling it âthe greatest poem that was ever written.â Octavo, original wrappers. In keeping with the policy of The American Review which required that poems be published anonymously or with a pseudonym, the poem, which appears on page 143 is credited to 'Quarles.' In very good condition. Rare in the original wrappers. The Raven and Other Poems âwas published at one of the low ebbs of Poeâs fortunes, when his Broadway Journal was about to expire, and is thus characterized by his 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 imaginationâ (Grolier, 100 American 56). Poe considered âThe Ravenâ to be his finest poemâ"indeed, he was quoted as saying it was the finest poem ever written. Dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Barrett and first published in book form by Wiley & Putnam in November 1845 in an edition of roughly 750 copies, The Raven and Other Poems "made Poe's name known both in America and England, and brought him an immortality that by no other means could he have attained" (Robertson, 224).

Leather bound. Zustand: Very good. 656pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Two frontispiece illustrations. Tidemarks in the top fore-edge corners of the frontispiece illustrations (only just barely affecting the illustrations). Frontispiece tissue-guard torn, with loss. Occasional light foxing to the pages. The Raven is on pp. 143-145. Also with Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy," p. 363 (first printing), "The Valley of Unrest," p. 392, and "The City of the Sea," p. 393. Heartman and Canny, pp. 145/146. Robertson, pp. 215/216. The first setting up in type of "The Raven." "The Raven," a melancholy summoning of lost love, is Poe's best known poem. The rhyme pattern enhances the poem's lyrical gloom. First periodical appearance of "The Raven".

First edition. First edition. Signed by Michel Butor and illustrator Axel Cassel in pencil on rear colophon, #11 of 60 copies thus. 30, [4]pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps.Text in French. Fine. A poem by the late French author inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Butor's novels such as L'emploi du temps (Passing Time) are often cited as examples of the nouveau roman in French literature. Crime writer Charles Willeford, for one, was a fan of them.

Torino, Roux Frassati e Co, 1896, Prima edizione. Ottimo esemplare, fresco e pulito, parzialmente a fogli chiusi, nella rara brossura originale (difetti al dorso, in parte fessurato e con piccole mancanze lontano dalla parte a stampa). Rarissima raccolta di saggi e traduzioni di quella parte dell'opera di Edgar Allan Poe all'epoca quasi del tutto trascurata in Italia: il poeta, il saggista e l'umorista (soltanto «Il corvo» era già stato tradotto nel 1881 da Scipione Salvotti e nel 1890 da Guido Menasci). Il 'bohémien' Ragazzoni, esponente della scapigliatura d'area piemontese, fu uno dei più interessanti mediatori della letteratura moderna inglese e americana alla fine dell'Ottocento: «Nel volume vengono così inserite le versioni di «The Raven», «Ulalume», «To Helen», «The Bells» ed «Annabel Lee» [.] tutte tradotte in maniera particolarmente fedele. [.] la forte affinità che [Ragazzoni] aveva con Poe rese possibile la realizzazione di ottime traduzioni [.]. La scelta dei 'Marginalia' è interessante perché per la prima volta troviamo un'attenzione anche al lato umoristico della scrittura di Poe e alle sue idee estetiche, lucidamente ed ironicamente espresse, come nel folgorante aforisma sui romanzieri che dovrebbero imitare i cinesi» (Melani). Nel libro anche, per la prima volta in italiano, la traduzione del saggio «The Philosophy of Composition» e del racconto «A Tale of Jerusalem». Scrive Bacigalupo che «the first satisfactory translation of «The raven» and other poems, by Ernesto Ragazzoni, is found in the volume «Edgar Allan Poe: la vita e le opere», edited by Ragazzoni and Federico Garrone (1896). [] Ragazzoni's translations of the poems [] have been widely admired. Gabriele Baldini, writing in the newspaper «Corriere della sera» (February 22, 1968) calls Ragazzoni «the only admirable Italian translator» of the poems». -- La raccolta delle versioni poetiche, aumentata con materiali inediti, fu poi ripubblicata nel 1927 per le cure di Arrigo Cajumi. Melani, Effetto Poe (Firenze 2006), cap. VI, pp. 108-ss; Bacigalupo, Poe in Italy (in: Poe Abroad: Influence Reputation Affinities, Iowa City, 1999, pp. 62-3) in 16°, brossura avorio stampata in nero ai piatti e al dorso, pp. 246 [2]. Prima edizione. Ottimo esemplare, fresco e pulito, parzialmente a fogli chiusi, nella rara brossura originale (difetti al dorso, in parte fessurato e con piccole mancanze lontano dalla parte a stampa). brossura avorio stampata in nero ai piatti e al dorso,

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. [vi], 91, [1] pp. Bound in a mourning binding, contemporary black pebble calf double ruled in blind with gilt stamped monogram "J.B.F." [Jessie Benton Fremont] on upper board; spine lettered in gilt with blind ruled bands. All edges gilt with green nonpareil marbled endpapers. Very Good with moderate rubbing to extremities, gnawing to bottom edge of textblock, gift inscription from Jessie Fremont to her husband John C. at first blank, "To Mr. Fremont / from his wife Jessie - / in memory of August 1847. / August 1848." Numerous literary notations in Fremont's hand throughout the endsheets, contents moderately foxed and toned with spots of age staining. Page 5 is torn with loss at bottom edge and abbreviated quote from The Raven written at bottom margin, "And my heart from out that shadow shall be lifted - nevermore." Chip with loss to top edge affecting 89-91 pp. Three leaves of mourning paper with various literary quotations, one a full transcript of Dinah Maria Mulock Craik's "Philip, My King", in Benton Fremont's hand. Lacking half-title. The much sought-after first book appearance of the iconic titular poem as well as others such as "Lenore," "Eulalie," and "To Helen." Called "the most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time in America," by Hervey Allen in his Poe biography Israfel vol. 2, p. Specially bound in a black mourning binding with provenance of Fremont (1824-1902). She was a woman of letters and writer, whose work primarily focused on the American West. She was heavily active in politics and was an outspoken opponent of slavery. She was the wife of John C. Fremont (1813-1890) a United States Army Officer who commanded the West during the Civil War under President Abraham Lincoln. Jessie gifted this to her husband directly after the birth of their first son, Benton Fremont b. July 24, 1848, who sadly died a year later. She likely had this bound later in memoriam of her son as most of the notations, written in her hand, on the endsheets are almost all quotations relating to and about death and tragedy. BAL 16147.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, printed in the February 1845 issue of The American Review under the pseudonym "Quarles." BAL 16147. [iv], 113 - 220 pp. ("The Raven" pp. 143 - 145). Bound in scarce original printed wraps, rebacked with repaired edges. Very Good with heavy toning to covers, several closed tears to front cover of which two are repaired with rice paper to verso. Previous owner inscription in an old hand to upper margin of front cover. Light scattered foxing throughout, light waterstaining to upper right margin, pages 137 - 144 roughly opened resulting in minor chipping. Minimal toning to pages; paper is near-white. Housed in a custom clamshell case, dark green cloth with gilt stamping to spine. The very first printing of the poem that made Poe famous, though he signed it with a pseudonym in accordance with The American Review's policy. The editors of the Whig-aligned magazine, which was published monthly from 1844 to 1852, state in the introduction to "The Raven" that the lines "appear to us one of the most felicitous specimens of unique rhyming which has for some time met our eye.".

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, printed on pp. 143 under the pseudonym "Quarles." Bound in contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. Very Good with wear, soiling and staining to binding. Contemporary ownership on title page, tide mark and foxing throughout. Marginal chip to pp. 3/4. This volume also includes Poe's story "Some Words with a Mummy" (pp. 363-370), and his poems "The Valley of Unrest" and "The City in the Sea" (pp. 392-3), which unlike "The Raven," appear under Poe's name.

First edition. First edition. [viii], 91, [1] pp. with half title present. Bound in late 19th century full dark green morocco with five raised bands to spine, elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, beautiful gilt turn-ins, blue marbled endpapers. Penciled note on prelim states "Bound Aug. 23/96." Very Good+, sunned and slightly rubbed spine, foxing throughout contents. A handsomely bound copy of Poe's groundbreaking poetry collection with the rare half title mentioning that this volume is part of Wiley Putnam's "Library of American Books" series. Alongside Herman Melville, whose Typee was also published in the series, Poe's sensibilities would come to define American literature. The much sought-after first book appearance of the iconic titular poem as well as others such as "Lenore," "Eulalie," and "To Helen." Called "the most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time in America," by Hervey Allen in his Poe biography Israfel vol. 2, p. 667. BAL 16147.