The Raven.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. First American edition with Doré's illustrations.. Binding and text very good; shipping box severely damaged but present. Oversized (47 x 37 cm); Wood-engraved title vignette after Elihu Vedder, and 26 wood-engraved plates after Gustave Doré. Original gray cloth over beveled boards, pictorially stamped in gold and black. Remarkably well-preserved copy in strong, bright binding, free of fraying or wear apart from insiginifcant rubbing at corners and minor soiling on lower board. Light waterstain at lower edge of initial leaves and at lower right corner of few interior leaves, more noticeable toward last leaves. Few spots on text pages. "Nevermore" plate loose but present. Plates effectlvely clear and unmarred. ORIGINAL DEDICATED SHIPPING BOX, virtually unobtainable, blue paper over cardboard printed with "Poe's Raven Illustrated by Doré" in a fantastical font. Box is in deplorable condition, broken and repaired with 20th-century masking tape, some flaps missing, stained and dusty, but present

The first American printing of Doré's last work, and a signal edition of Poe's signature poem, with original box.