first edition Hardcover
1842 · Philadelphia
by (POE, Edgar Allan)
Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderately foxed throughout, as usually the case; wear with some loss to boards and light wear to joints but binding firm. Very Good. Two volumes bound in one, publisher's gilt-lettered brown morocco leather and boards with matching leather corners. Illustrated with numerous steel engravings and 7 color plates (5 fashion plates). First appearance in print of these six Poe works: The Mask of The Red Death; Life in Death; An Appendix of Autographs; A Few Words About Brainard; To One Departed; and The Poetry of Rufus Dawes. Also with contributions by Charles Dickens, James Fennimore Cooper, Henry Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and others. (Inventory #: 021023)