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‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎Murders in the Rue Morgue‎

‎First Photoplay Edition With Black-and-White Film Stills POE Edgar Allan. The Murders in the Rue Morgue. and Other Tales of Mystery. New York: Grosset & Dunlap n.d. c.a. 1932. First photoplay edition. In publisher's dust jacket. Octavo 8 x 5 3/8 inches; 202 x 136 mm. 4 315 1 publisher's ads pp. "Illustrated with scenes from the Universal Photoplay presented by Carl Laemmle." With photographic endpapers frontispiece and six additional movie still black-and-white plates one of which is double paged. These film stills are from the Universal motion picture of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" starring Bela Lugosi. Full publisher's red cloth. Front board and spine lettered in black. Top edge green. Black-and-white photographic endpapers. The smallest amount of shelfwear to head and tail of cloth spine. In publisher's full color illustrated dust jacket. Some chipping along top and bottom edge of jacket. A few small chips at head and tail of jacket spine. Overall an about fine book in a very good and exceptionally bright dust jacket. The Murders in the Rue Morgue is the holy grail of mystery and detective fiction and one of the cornerstones of that genre. Poe wrote it during the height of his literary powers and it remains to this day the standard by which all mystery fiction if compared. BAL. Heartman and Canny. HBS 68209. $1850 Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 68209

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Murders in the Rue Morgue in Graham's Magazine‎

‎Graham's Magazine 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 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 1pp. 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. Graham's Magazine hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 1608325

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎OVAL PORTRAIT.THE‎

‎Sugar Land TX: Arm & Hammer Press 2004. cloth title on label on spine decoration gilt-stamped on front board. Miniature Books. miniature book 6.0 x 6.5 cm. cloth title on label on spine decoration gilt-stamped on front board. vi 21 3 pages. Limited to 65 numbered copies signed by publisher Gordon Rouze. A short story. Illustration of Poe with a quote from a letter from Poe to Frederick W. Thomas. Arm & Hammer Press unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 116584

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎RAVEN.THE‎

‎Pasadena CA: The Clinker Press 2007. embossed leather decorated endpapers bottom edge uncut. Clinker Press. oblong 12mo. embossed leather decorated endpapers bottom edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 60 numbered copies. Printed on recto only. Bound by Marianna Blau. Minor shelf-wear. The Clinker Press unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 129830

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Some Edgar Allan Poe letters. Printed for private distribution only from originals in the collection of W.K. Bixby‎

‎St. Louis MO: William K. Bixby 1915. Edition limited to 200 inscribed by the publisher of which this is an unnumbered copy 8vo pp. 26; 5 fold-out facsimile letters; white vegetable vellum boards soiled gilt cover title shelf wear corners bumped; ex-Hill Library with usual markings interior mostly fine printed on paper watermarked "Van Gelder Zonen Holland". With an essay on Poe's relationships with these correspondents. Reprinted from "The Fourteenth Year Book 1915" of the Bibliophile Society. BAL 16177. <br/><br/> William K. Bixby hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 37497

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Tales of Edgar Allan Poe‎

‎The Franklin Library Pennsylvania 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Leatherette bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 109127

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.‎

‎Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1974. Hardcover. Fine. Published exclusively for subscribers to the Franklin Library collection : The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Bound in the publisher's original red composition leather spine stamped in gilt. Five raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. Silk moire end papers. <br/><br/> Franklin Library hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 9026184

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION‎

‎Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 1975. Hardcover. Fine. Collector's Edition a volume in The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. Signed on the title page by artist Patrick Jones who created the color frontispiece portrait. This collection of 29 works of short fiction reveals Poe's pervasive influence upon the American short story including The Gold Bug The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Fall of the House of Usher. Introduction by Vincent Starrett. Octavo. Full brown leather binding with elaborate gilt stamping five raised bands moire silk endpapers and a ribbon marker. A fine copy. The Easton Press hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 70837

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎Tales of Mystery & Imagination‎

‎NY:: Heritage Press. Very Good. 1941. Hardcover. B001HB7JT6 . Introduction by Vincent Starrett. A reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. Faded along the spine else very good in a very good dust slipcase.; 366 pages . Heritage Press, hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 71137

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Tales of Mystery and Imagination‎

‎Tudor Publishing Company 1933. First Thus. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First thus. Edges rubbed with some loss from corners front hinge weakening. 1933 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 412 pp. 4to. Original black cloth gilt titles black top page ridge. Tipped in color illustrations and full-page engravings by Harry Clarke illustrated label on front board. An attractive edition of Poe's classic collection of stories. CONTENTS: Ms. Found in a Bottle; Berenice; Morella; Some Passages in the Life of a Lion Lionizing; The Assignation; Bon-Bon; King Pest; Metzengerstein; Silence; A Descent into the Maelstrom; Ligeia; The Fall of the House of Usher; William Wilson; The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion; The Man of the Crowd; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Roget; The Colloquy of Monos and Una; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold Bug; The Black Cat; The Spectacles; The Premature Burial; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Oblong Box; The Cask of Amontillado; Landor's Cottage. Tudor Publishing Company hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 2283614

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎Tales of Mystery and Imagination‎

‎London: Harrap 1919. Limited. hardcover. fine. Clarke Harry. Illustrated by Harry Clarke with 24 full page illustrations with tissue guards and many incredible black and white head and tail pieces. 383 pages bound in full vellum with gilt decoration on cover gilt spine lettering top edge gilt uncut edges with many pages unopened. London: George Harrap 1919. A beautiful clean copy. Fine.<br/><br/> Limited Deluxe Edition. Number 146 of only 170 copies signed and numbered on the limitation page by Harry Clarke.<br/><br/> Harrap unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 287853

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Tales of Mystery and Imagination‎

‎The Easton Press Norwalk Connecticut 1975. Special Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine collector's edition from The Easton Press. Part of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker. Decorative endpapers and a specially commissioned frontispiece portrait. The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 108793

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION; Illustrated by Harry Clarke‎

‎NY: Tudor 1933. First Tudor Edition. Harry Clarke. 4to pp. 412. With 8 tipped-in colour plates 24 full-page black-and-white drawings title-page illustration and other vignettes. Bound in black cloth with paper label covers little dusty spine stamping all worn off front hingle little tender a good copy. Tudor unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 50498

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque‎

‎Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1840. First edition one of only an estimated 750 copies printed; with p. 213 correctly numbered. 2431; iv 4 5-228 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original purple muslin printed paper spine labels; cloth folding case. 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. First edition one of only an estimated 750 copies printed; with p. 213 correctly numbered. 2431; iv 4 5-228 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. First edition; one of only 750 copies printed. 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.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>Increasingly scarce in any condition but especially so in original condition. BAL 16133; Heartman & Canny pp. 49-54. 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 Lea and Blanchard unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 319133

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Tales.‎

‎New York: Wiley and Putnam 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. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 95139

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎Tamerlane and Other Poems‎

‎Baltimore: Wirth 1939. Facsimile. Facsimile. Very Good. Half inch tear and small tear on rear wrapper edge. 1939 Small Softcover. 40 pp. Facsimile of original. Likely the "typeface facsimile printed by Wirth Baltimore 1939. This facsimile has no identifying marks or imprint. According to a statement by Ferdinand F. Wirth provided on October 7 1977 to Alexander G. Rose of the Poe Society of Baltimore the edition was 1500 copies." "The poems many of which had a theme of youth were inspired in part by the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The largest inspiration on Poe however came from the work of Lord Byron; the character of the title poem "Tamerlane" has a daughter named "Ada" named after Byron's own daughter Ada Lovelace. Poe admired Byron both for his poetry and for his rebellious personality. John Allan blamed Poe's interest in Byron for his licentiousness. Some biographers suggest that Poe's wandering to Boston and joining the Army represent a need to live like an outcast inspired by Byron. The title poem "Tamerlane" depicts a dying conqueror who regrets leaving his childhood sweetheart and his home to pursue his ambitions. In its original form "Tamerlane" based on the historical Timur was 406 lines. The choice of an eastern character was unusual for a westerner at the time though Byron Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Thomas Moore and others had written other Orientalist works. Autobiographical overtones suggest Poe based the poem on the loss of his own early love Sarah Elmira Royster or of his birth mother Eliza Poe. The poem may also mirror Poe's relationship with his foster father John Allan; similar to Poe Tamerlane is of uncertain parentage with a "feigned name". The "other poems" which Poe admitted "perhaps savour too much of egotism; but they were written by one too young to have any knowledge of the world but from his own breast". These poems present the poet as solitary figure who was faced some unnamed transforming childhood event. Poe adopted some of the common themes of the day including imagery of heavenly bliss and angelic beauty. He steps away from the typical use of didacticism of the time and instead focuses on psychological reverie and symbolist aesthetics beginning his lifelong poetic refusal to write for the masses. Poe would continue to revisit themes of death beauty love and pride in his later works. He would later rewrite one poem "Imitation" as "A Dream Within a Dream" and use images from "Evening Star" in "Ulalume". [Wirth] unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 2307327

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Artist September 1842-January 1843 And: Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. Volume XX: February April May June 1842; Volume XXI: July October November December 1842‎

‎New York; Philadelphia: Mr. Quarré; George R. Graham 1842. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in 3/4 contemporary black morocco and marbled boards. Van Wyck bookplate. Corners rubbed some foxing else very good plus. 1 vols. 8vo. FIRST PRINTING OF THE MASK OF RED DEATH. Contains the First Printings of Poe's "Life After Death" April 1842 pp. 200-201 "The Mask of the Red Death. A Fantasy" May 1842 pp. 257-59 and "The Poetry of Rufus Davies" October 1842 pp. 205-209; and numerous reviews by Poe of new works including Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales". Heartman & Canny p. 207-208 Mr. Quarré; George R. Graham unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 61716

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎The Bells and Other Poems‎

‎London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Dulac Edmund. Illustrated throughout with 11 small vignettes including the one on the title page; and 28 mounted color plates by Edmund Dulac. Thick 4to original ornate gilt-stamped vellum uncut edges t.e.g. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1912. Lacking the original cloth ties otherwise a near fine copy.<br/><br/> Edition de Luxe. Number 504 of 750 copies signed by the artist on the limitation page.<br/><br/> Hodder & Stoughton unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 287854

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎The Bells and Other Poems‎

‎London: Hodder & Stoughton 1912. Limited. hardcover. very good. Dulac Edmund. Illustrated throughout with 11 small vignettes including the one on the title page; and 28 mounted color plates by Edmund Dulac. Thick 4to original ornate gilt-stamped vellum with silk ties vellum covers are somewhat bowed as usual; uncut edges t.e.g. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1912. A very good clean copy.<br/><br/> Edition de Luxe. Number 386 of 750 copies signed by the artist on the limitation page.<br/><br/> Hodder & Stoughton unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 157830

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Cask of Amontillado‎

‎New York: The Winthrop Press 1914. First Edition. Very good. First edition; miniature 2 3/4 x 2 1/4; pp. 1-31 1; pictorial wraps; illustrated with color frontis and b & w vignettes at the beginning and the end of the book; a small spot to upper left corner affecting front wrap and first several leaves; slight pink offset to title page not affecting readability; very good condition. A beautiful miniature edition of Poe's story it was published by the Winthrop Press specifically to be packaged together with cigarettes as a premium to each pack from the American Tobacco Company. The Knights of Columbus would then send the cigarettes with the miniatures to soldiers in World War I. The Winthrop Press paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 002694

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe‎

‎New York: Crowell 1902. Limited. hardcover. very good. Edited by James A. Harrison Frontispiece in each volume & many other illustrations lettered tissue guards. 17 volumes 8vo 3/4 red morocco spines gilt with floral motifs marbled boards t.e.g. Several spines are chipped. New York: Crowell & Society of English and French Literature 1902. Limited to one of 1000 copies. Very good.<br/><br/> Crowell unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 220287

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Edited and Chronologically Arranged on the Basis of the Standard Text with certain Additional Material and with a Critical Introduction by Charles F. Robinson‎

‎New York and London: G P Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1902. The Book-Lover's's Eldorado Edition of Poe's Works number 174 of only 1050 copies copiously illustrated with numerous woodcuts and full page photogravures. Photogravure frontispieces and plates with captioned tissue guards Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Title pages signed Womrath. 10 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter blue pebbled morocco gilt-decorated spines raised bands marbled endpapers t.e.g. rest uncut. With initial EBR on lower front panel of each volume. With note in pencil on flyleaf "Eleanor Page Roberts a wedding present from our best man-George Graham Thansen 1905" Almost fine. Coburn Frederick Simpson. The Book-Lover's's Eldorado Edition of Poe's Works number 174 of only 1050 copies copiously illustrated with numerous woodcuts and full page photogravures. Photogravure frontispieces and plates with captioned tissue guards Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Title pages signed Womrath. 10 vols. 8vo. See BAL 16171 G P Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 216903

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Conchologist's First Book‎

‎Haswell Barrington and Haswell Philadelphia 1840. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo pp. 166 12 lithographic plates. Bound in original green printed boards very good general wear rebacked with leather spine. A very good copy of this fragile book. BAL 16132; Heartman & Canny p. 44; Tucker "Natural History in America 1609-1860" 1754 calling the book a piracy; Yale Gimbel Collection 38. Poe was accused of pirating this little book from Thomas Wyatt's "A Manual of Conchology" when he was putting this out in response to Wyatt's wishes and at his suggestion. This is the only one of Poe's American imprints to be reprinted in his lifetime. Second Edition corrected and enlarged from the first edition issued only six months earlier with a new preface by Poe on which he comments on the success of the publication. Haswell, Barrington and Haswell, Philadelphia hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 1609036

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎The Conchologist's First Book: or A System of Testaceous Malacology‎

‎Philadelphia: Published for the Author by Haswell Barrington and Haswell 1839. Joints split but threads holding leather dry; some occasional pale foxing. 12mo 17 x 10.5 cm. 156 pages. 12 lithographed plates after P. S. Duval. Original red roan-backed printed boards dated 1840. FIRST EDITION in boards unrecorded by BAL or Heartman & Canny. The upper board on this copy notes that it is for the second edition and is dated 1840. BAL 16131; Heartman & Canny pp. 41-44; Norman 1720. <br/><br/> Published for the Author by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 406589

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Fall Of The House Of Usher‎

‎Maastricht: Halcyon Press 1930. Hardcover. Full black morocco. Teg. Fine in fine matching black cloth slipcase. Alexeieff Alexandre. 68 pages. 26 x 20. Ten aquatints by Alexandre Alexeieff each with tissue guard. Limited edition copy 207 of 325 of which 301-325 are not for sale on Dutch paper printed by Joh. Enschede with the Roman type cut by J.M. Fleischman in 1739. Bound by Asprey gilt ruled covers and dentelles marbled endpapers two raised bands wide text margins a bright very fresh copy. Halcyon Press hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 22021