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Poe, Edgar Allan
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description
- printed book with manuscript
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840
2 volumes, 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/8 in.; 190 x 111 mm). 4 pages of advertisements bound before the title in the second volume; some mostly marginal spotting, light browning. 8-line autograph manuscript mounted on front free endpaper. Modern morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt, original purple muslin covers bound at end of each volume. Half morocco drop-box.
2 volumes, 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/8 in.; 190 x 111 mm). 4 pages of advertisements bound before the title in the second volume; some mostly marginal spotting, light browning. 8-line autograph manuscript mounted on front free endpaper. Modern morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt, original purple muslin covers bound at end of each volume. Half morocco drop-box.
Provenance
D. F. Appleton (bookplate) — ms. inscription dated 17 April 1903 on front free endpaper
Literature
BAL 16133; Heartman & Canny, p. 49
Catalogue Note
First edition, first printing, with correct pagination of page 213 in volume 2, and on page 219, the "i" in "ing", line 13 up, and the hyphen at the end of line 6 up, both occur in the right position.
One of Poe's greatest books containing "The Fall of the House of Usher." According to the publisher's records, only 750 copies were printed. The 8-line manuscript in Poe's hand contains the first stanza of The Forsaken by his friend Sarah Ann Lewis.