Lot 247
  • 247

Poe, Edgar Allan

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Tales - The Raven and Other Poems. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845
  • ink on paper; cloth
2 works bound together. 8vo. Publisher's blind-stamped plum cloth with gilt spine title; faded, rebacked with original spine laid  down but internally clean with only a very few pages with some light intermittent foxing.

Literature

BAL 16146, 16147; Grolier American

Condition

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Catalogue Note

First edition, second issue of Tales with the three line copyright with no imprint below. Poe expressed dislike for the the selection of stories herein, but he did carefully revise them and Tales remains the most representative of his prose works. The author often used these one volume editions for presentation.