(Poe, Edgar Allan.)

Large 8vo (234 x 153mm.), includes first printings of several Poe stories, several engravings and hand-coloured fashion plates, publisher's full morocco, spine gilt in 5 compartments, covers with elaborate gilt-pictorial designs, some spotting and browning, some plates closely trimmed, binding with some wear, front inner hinge starting

Ellen J. Vail, supra-libros

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Volume XVIII of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine contains first printings of "Descent into the Maelstrom", "The Island of the Fay", and, most famously, "Murders in the Rue Morgue", the first detective story in modern literature.