‎Poe edgar‎

‎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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 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

Bookseller reference : 22021

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎The Fall of the House of Usher‎

‎New York: Limited Editions Club 1985. Limited. hardcover. fine. Alice Neel. Illustrated by Alice Neel. Afterword by Raphael Soyer. Thin folio leather backed marbled boards; cloth folding case light dust soiling. New York: Limited Edition Club 1985. Fine.<br/><br/> Of 1500 copies this is one of a few signed by both Soyer and by Neel who died while the book was in production.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 100323

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The gentleman's magazine and monthly American review. Volume IV. From January to July. William E. Burton and Edgar Allan Poe eds‎

‎Philadelphia: William E. Burton 1839. 8vo pp. iv 360; 4 steel engraved plates and illustrations throughout; full contemporary calf slightly soiled gilt-stamped spine in five compartments some shelf wear; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; losses to front free endpapers foxing. Includes fiction pieces poetry book reviews and essays on "manly" passtimes such as ice skating dogs and travel narratives. <br/><br/> William E. Burton unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 37475

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Gold Bug‎

‎New York: Rimington & Hooper 1928. Slight wear at spine ends and at corners of beveled boards. TEG other edges untrimmed. Small dampstain on back of back free endpaper. The fourth in the series of The Holly Editions and is number 188 of 377 numbered copies. Designed by W.A.Kittredge and printed at the Lakeside Press Chicago. This edition contains Poe's preferred text. . Limited/Numbered. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Rimington & Hooper Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WN972

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The last letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman. Edited by James A. Harrison. In commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Poe's birth January 19 1909‎

‎New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1909. Edition limited to 500 copies; small 4to pp. viii 50; portrait frontispiece "From an early miniature" 1 portrait production plate; contemporary blue gilt-stamped cloth some edge wear ex-Hill Library with usual markings interior mostly fine paper watermarked "Old Downshire". "Published under the auspices of the University of Virginia" at the Knickerbocker Press. BAL 16174. <br/><br/> G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 37547

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Man of the Crowd‎

‎Burton's Gentleman's Magazine 1840. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The first appearance of Poe's classic tales The Man of the Crowd and Omania in this bound volume of the magazine. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. First edition. 298 pages. Half leather backstrip well flicked marbled boards with seven plates one is of fashions. Tissue guards present some scattered and light foxing. Overall very good. Burton's Gentleman's Magazine hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 1506036

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Masque of the Red Death & Other Tales‎

‎Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1981. Leather bound. Fine. Clean tight unread copy. Pristine. Slate grey leather/boards. Gilt decoration all around with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. 382 pp. with archival bw illustrations of Frederick Simpson Coburn. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers with matching satin place-holder ribbon. No dust jacket as issued. Limited Edition published for the subscribers to The Collector's Library of The World's Best-Loved Books. The Franklin Library hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 161663

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Murders in the Rue Morgue‎

‎Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons Original half brown morocco gilt with green marbled paper covered boards. Gilt spine title is directly on spine. Some chipping at morocco/paper joints and foxing on boards. Insect activity on foreedge of last postliminary. Some foxing throughout mainly in gutter. A facsimile of the manuscript which was in the Drexel Institute at the time of publication. Acquired from a member of the Barrie family; binding not in BAL 6234 and is a presumed publisher's binding. Facsimile Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Facsimile. George Barrie & Sons Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WN44531

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym‎

‎Boston Massachusetts: David R. Godine 1973. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. One of 3000 copies. Multiple tears to jacket some previously mended with tape on jacket reverse. Pencil name on front free endpaper. 1973 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. xxv 157 pp. "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" the only full-length novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote is the story of a boy Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship. Along with Augustus the captain's son Arthur Gordon Pym avoids discover aboard the ship while witnessing a series of incredible events. Rich with symbolism and allegory "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" is an exciting gothic sea adventure that greatly influenced the genre of the maritime novel. David R. Godine hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 2307501 ISBN : 0879230622 9780879230623

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The pit and the pendulum.with wood engravings by John DePol‎

‎New York: South Street Seaport Museum 1991. Edition limited to 150 copies signed by DePol; 8vo pp. 6 22 4; title page printed in red and black 8 wood engravings by DePol who also designed the patterned endpapers; original black cloth with printed red wraparound label on spine; fine. Designed and printed at Bowne & Co. Stationers by Barbara Henry and Lissa Dodington. <br/><br/> South Street Seaport Museum hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 50449

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe‎

‎New York: Hodder and Stoughton No Date. Hardbound. Very clean and tight but for ex-lib. sticker on spine and bookplate inside front cover;. Dulac Edmund. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and black decoration; 46 poems and 28 illustrations; fabulous endpapers decorated with bells; no page numbers;. Stunning color illustrations by Edmund Dulac of Poe's haunting poetry. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 116329

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Raven and Other Poems‎

‎New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. First edition in book form of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" the single most famous American poem of the nineteenth century first published earlier that year in the New York Evening Mirror under Poe's own name and The American Review under a pseudonym. Partly inspired by the early lyrics of Elizabeth Barrett later Browning to whom he dedicated this volume of poems Poe composed "The Raven" in trochaic octometer with a deranged musicality all his own. The elements are familiar even to those who don't read poetry: the "midnight dreary" the silk-curtained chamber the raven perched upon the bust of Athena the relentless refrain that drives the narrator mad. "'Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! / Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! / Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door!' / Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'" Even before publication Poe knew he had a sensation on his hands. When a friend described an early reading of the poem as "fine uncommonly fine" Poe responded: "Is that all you can say for this poem I tell you it's the greatest poem ever written." Poe's fame only increased with the appearance of contemporary parodies like "The Owl" and "The Polecat": a contemporary recalls "'The Raven' became known everywhere and everyone was saying 'Nevermore.'" The publication of "The Raven" paved the way for Wiley and Putnam's publication of Poe's Tales the collection that introduced his pioneering detective fiction to a wider audience that same year. BAL 16147. A near-fine copy of a landmark in American literature. Octavo measuring 7.25 x 5 inches: 6 91 1. Early twentieth-century full russet calf boards single-ruled in gilt raised bands black morocco spine labels spine single-ruled and lettered in gilt gilt dentelles marbled endpapers. Handwritten slip tipped onto second fly leaf noting "inner gilt dentelles by Zaehnsdorf." Lacking original wrappers half title and ads. Joints expertly repaired a few light scratches to lower board. Wiley and Putnam unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 1001883

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Raven Eulalie-A Song The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case Some words with a Mummy in The American Review: A Whig Journal‎

‎Wiley and Putnam 1845. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Vol. I January-June 1845; vol. II July-December 1845. In vol. I: The Raven p.143 and Some Words with a Mummy p.363. In vol. II: Eulalie-A Song p.79 and The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case p.561. Vol. I and II: Thick quarto half red morocco over marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt geometric patterns in compartments. Vol. I: Light foxing to the preliminaries and fore edges. Vol. II: Light foxing to the preliminaries and fore edges front inner hinge open. Very good uncommonly clean copies. Housed in a custom-made slipcase. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 1610043

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The Raven. And Other Poems.‎

‎New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. Rare first edition in book form of Poe's famed work. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards gilt titles to the spine raised bands. In very good condition with some light foxing and usual wear. BAL 16147.     The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845 the poem is often noted for its musicality stylized language and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover often identified as being a student is lamenting the loss of his love Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk mythological religious and classical references. 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 imagination" Grolier 100 American 56. Poe considered "The Raven" to be his finest poem--indeed he was quoted as saying it was the finest poem ever written. Wiley and Putnam hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 111538

‎Poe Edgar Allan‎

‎The tell-tale heart and other stories‎

‎Franklin Center Pa: The Franklin Library 1984. Edition limited to an unspecified number; 8vo pp. 10 360 2; original full black gilt-stamped morocco silk moiré endpapers silk ribbon bookmark a.e.g.; fine bright copy. <br/><br/> The Franklin Library unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 57182

‎POE Edgar Allan‎

‎The Works of Edgar Allan Poe‎

‎New York: Bigelow. hardcover. very good. 10 volumes bound in 5. Black and white frontispieces. 3/4 red morocco leather over red cloth gilt stamped spines top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Subtle dampstain in the upper margins of two volumes. New York Bigelow no date circa 1910. A very good set.<br/><br/> Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front attached endpapers. Some pages unopened.<br/><br/> Bigelow unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 283911