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Published by COLONIAL COMPANY LIMITED LAKESIDE PRESS CHICAGO, 1903
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, LITE BLUE TWEED CLOTH WITH PAPER SPINE LABEL. , VOLUME 5 ONLY , 1903 , 1ST LIMITED EDITION #711 OF 1,000 COPIES , Condition is VG/VG-, NO JACKET, Some faint blemishing to boards/spine, more blue in person, pages/hinges/text block are very good/excellent! Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition , 361 PGS, 5 1/2 X 8 3/4 iIN. approx Original denim cloth with pasted on spine label, gold GILT tops of pages, a lovely frontispiece, with three other illustrations, a few in text figures, and a Great Read from the Famed Author; With the Author's Only Novel! ,Portrait OF POE from Photograph of Painting by Oscar Halling on pg 50, POE was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE EDGAR ALLAN POE ,TALES OF ADVENTURE & EXPLORATION #711/1K WEST SHIPWRECK ROCKIES, Collector's DEFINITIVE Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition 1K, Luxury Edition COLONIAL COMPANY LIMITED PUBL.
Published by Henry L. Williams, New York, 1882
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frontisplace; Platres; Decorations Throughout (illustrator). 1st Edition. Iii, 184 Pp. First Printing, Copyright By Williams In 1882, With Williams Title Page Dated 1882 (Not The Widdleton Or Hurst Reprints, And Quite Scarce Although Worldcat Identifies 9 Institutional Holdings). Quarter Morocco With Morocco Tips, Marbled Boards And Matching Marbling To Edges, Green Floral Endpapers. All Pages Except Plates Are Printed In Red And Black. Binding Quite Worn But Sturdy, Hinges Solid. Pages Clean But Aged. No Marks.
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers. 0, New York & London.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontispiece to each volume. (illustrator). 1st Edition. No edition stated. The set is not dated, c. 1910. Frontispiece plate to each volume. Ten volume set. Publishers green cloth with gilt decorated spines. Some light rubbing and the gilt decoration is slightly tarnished on one or two volumes. Generally a very good solid set. Book.
Published by P. F. Collier & Son, New York, 1904
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Becher, Arthur E. (Frontispieces) (illustrator). First Edition. Complete five volume set of The Raven Edition. MCMIV (1904) at title page; 1903 at copyright. Each volume features black full-cloth boards, grey and green stamped titles, design, moderate shelf wear. Facsimile signature of Poe to front covers w/Pallas bust and raven perched against green background. Pages very good; moderate toning, stylish antiquarian name pencilled inside covers. Binds good; hinges intact. Each volume with a haunting color frontispiece from paintings by Arthur Becher. Red captioned tissue guards for each plate intact. Contents to the volumes include: The Life and Death of Poe; The Gold Bug; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; Some Words with a Mummy; The Raven; The Oblong Box; Shadow - A Parable; Narrative of A. Gordon Pym; collected poetry, and many, many other tales. 371, 381, 381, 356, and 372 pages. 1,861 pages in all. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Funk & Wagnalls, 1904
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Funk & Wagnalls, NEW YORK and LONDON, 1904. Red Cloth. Condition: near fine +. Cameo Edition. Ten Volumes in near fine to fine condition. Red cloth with faded lettering on spine. Each book has the tissue guard in place over frontispiece. Cameo present on front right lower corner of all volumes. 2-3 of 10 show bumps to corners Very Nice set of ten (10) Cameo Edition books with an Introduction by Edwin Markham. (Scans available upon request.) Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. all completely clean and unmarked as new except as noted.
Published by George Robertson, Melbourne, 1868
Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
First Edition
Boards. 1st Australian. 1st Australian ed., small octavo, pp.viii, 144, pres. inscr in ink to f.f.e.p. from the Australian publisher (dated July 1868), grubby markings to final page and end-papers, Publisher's orig green cloth bds, cnrs bumped, fraying to upper spine, lightly fished boards, blind-stamped with publisher?s monogram to front bd and gilt titled spine. Inscribed 'with Publishers' Compliments, July 1868', very good condn. Scarce Australian edition, the first edition of Poe?s works to appear in Australia. Not in Ferguson.
Published by London, Sampson Low, 1858. First edition thus:, 1858
Seller: Louella Kerr Books, Petersham, NSW, Australia
First Edition
ppxxx, 248, profusely illustrated. Roy. 8vo, In a handsome full morocco binding by J. B. Hawes of Cambridge, spine raised in compartments, gilt lettered and ruled, all edges gilt. With the armorial crest in gilt of the University of Sydney, and a 1863 prize inscription in ink from the Registrar on the front free endpaper. A fine copy. A very early prize (Sydney University was established in 1850), awarded for mathematics to `Guliemo Henrico Nate'.
Published by Melbourne, 1868
Seller: O'Connell's Bookshop Est. 1957, Adelaide, SA, Australia
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. Green boards with gilt title on spine; corners slightly bumped. Light crack along internal back EP hinge. Neat name (from the era) on EP. Very good condition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. First Australian edition. Size: 12 x 18cm.
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1919
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated "Oxford Edition". Blue cloth gilt. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small chip at the crown and some slight spine-toning. Jacket notes "Oxford University Press American Branch". An early jacket.
Published by W. J. Widdleton, Publisher, New York, 1880
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Half-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. 1880 at title page stated Household edition. Maroon, blue, etc. marbled boards, light brown leather spine wrap and corners, gilt impressed spine titles, "Poe's Works," with five decorative bands, some shelf, corner wear, rub. Supple leather has been reconditioned. Smooth marbled endpapers matching cover patterns. Pages generally good with toning, few w/edge chip. Frontispiece with original tissue guard features unique drawing of Poe with his facsimile signature below. String-bind good; hinges reinforces. Rare solid example of this thick but concise early collection. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Published by Hurst and Company, New York, 1892
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Stated: "Copyright, 1892, by T. Y. Crowell & Co." No other dates, indications. First edition thus of this classic collection. Handy 4" x 6 1/2" design. Features a twenty page biographical sketch by N. H. Dole. Cream full cloth boards, gilt cover and spine design with ornate decorative design, moderate shelf wear, rub, discoloration. Front features romantic image of Victorian lady in repose among forest scene. Covers and spine wrapping around to back board with similar motif of bright ornate floral decoration among green leaved vines and petals. Scarce cover design for this collection and publisher. Pages very good, clean. Bind good, square. Contents include: "Preface to the Poems by Edgar Allan Poe; Biographical Sketch Nathan Haskell Cole; The Poetic Principal; The Raven; Lenore; The Bells; Annabel Lee; Ulalume; The Coliseum; To Helen; To - -; A Valentine; To My Mother; Hymn; An Enigma; The Haunted Palace; The Conqueror Worm; To One In Paradise; To F--s S. O--D; The City In the Sea; Silence; The Sleeper; The Valley of Unrest; A Dream Within a Dream; Dream-Land; To Zante; Eulalie; Eldorado; Israfel; For Annie; To F--; Bridal Ballad; To --; Scenes from 'Politian'; Poems Written in Youth: Sonnet - To Science; Al Aafraaf; To the River --; Tamerlane; Fairy-Land; To L. M. S.; Romance; Spirits of the Dead; To --; A Dream; The Lake. To--; Song; Helen; Alone; The Philosophy of Composition; and, The Power of Words." 192 pages. Insured post.Originally published by Henry L. Williams in 1882, with 1892 on copyright page, this is an early printing of the Hurst & Company reprint edition of Poems of Edgar Allan Poe including Some Poems Not Hitherto Introduced In His Works, To Which Is Added A Full And Impartial Memoir Of Poet (NY, Hurst & Co., 1892). This edition was published less than fifty years after the author s death just as many of the poems in it (e.g. The Raven and The Bells were first published in 1845 and 1849 respectively). In dark blue cloth with gilt title/decor to spine, frontispiece of Poe on title page and decorations throughout, the book is in very good condition for its age. Binding is straight and quite firm with no damage to joints or gutters (see photos). Exterior shows light wear to heel and only a touch of wear to corners no bumps or tears. Page ends are clean though top page ends are a bit darker than fore edges and bottom page ends, likely as printed. Interior contents are very good and complete with no errant marks or torn pages but light fading to a few letters on title page and a very faint name and Oct 1901 date to FFEP. Some of the interior pages are slightly off set at gutters and one or two show minor nearby wrinkles. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Published by The Chesterfield Society / The Werner Company, London and New York, 1908
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. London and New York: The Chesterfield Society / The Werner Company, 1908. Limited Edition of 1000 "Edition De Luxe" sets, this being #683. Ten octavo volumes. Color frontispiece to each volumes; black and white plates, each with lettered tissue guards, collated and complete. Tan cloth boards with paper spine labels; top edges gilt. Boards lightly worn along edges with some very minor fraying to crown of a couple volumes; general scuffy and mild patchy discoloration. Bindings sound and interiors unmarked. A Very Good set of a scarce and handsome edition.
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1915
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. No date; circa 1915. Complete ten volume set. Each volume features dark green full-cloth boards, gilded spine titles with flourishing design, moderate shelf, corner, edge wear; retaining sheen and almost as silk moiré. Each ornately detailed spine features titles and volume number in Roman numerals, image for The Raven, and The Bells, between five gilded bands. Pages generally very good; volume VI with printing error to mount of frontispiece. Each volume with an illustrated frontispiece presented on a smooth coated plate; several are paintings or drawings depicting scenes, others are portraits of Poe, associated famous authors, and Poe's home. Binds generally good, square; majority with fine hinges. Rare near very good ten volume set from Harper & Brothers. Volume I, II, III, and IV contain Tales from Poe featuring a most complete compilation of all Poe's prose and poetry. Volume V, VI, VII, VIII titled 'Miscellaneous' and comprising of compositions and essays from Poe on authors such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hood, and on varied topics including writing and other fascinations such as Philosopy of Composition, Cryptography, Old English Tales, Mystification, The Angel of the Odd, etc. Volume IX contains the Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. Volume X contains Loss of Breath, The Man That Was Used Up, Astoria, etc. Each volume measures 5 1/4" x 7 5/8" and is approximately 250 pages in length. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Thomas Y Crowell & Co.
Seller: Open Door Books MABA, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wine Red Morroccan Leather/Gilt Title Spines.Decorated End Pages. All Tight Some Edge Wear On A Couple Of Volumes. Spine Chips To Vol 17 Some Covers Weak. A Fragile And Rare Set Worldcat Finds 0 Copies.
Published by Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1894
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound in green cloth, stamped on spine with floral decoration and lettering. Illustrated with twelve portraits of Poe and his family, chiefly as frontispieces; twenty plates by Sterner; three engravings of Poe's homes; and one reproduction of his manuscript. Vol I-pp 343; II-pp 334; III pp 325; IV-pp 297; V-pp 361; VI-pp 331; VII-pp 355; VIII-pp 352; IX-pp 317; X-pp 313. The most ambitious publishing project of Stone & Kimball, conceived and carried out with care, this has been the standard edition of Poe. Kramer35 Kramer #13.
Published by J.S. REDFIELD, NEW YORK, 1852
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
HARD BACK GREEN. Condition: GOOD. FIRST ED. Volume 1: Tales: Gold gilt text on spine. Soiling to spine. Rubbing to covers. Tears to the top and bottom edge of spine. Bumped Corners. Designs etched onto the covers and spine.Previous owner's signature on front free end page. Small yellow bookplate on front inside cover.Yellowish end pages. Pages 171 to 190 are almost detached from the book. Foxing spots on various pages. Otherwise contains clean pages. 483 pp. Volume 2: Poetry & Miscellanies: Gold gilt text on spine. Soiling to Spine. Rubbed covers. Small tears to the top and bottom of spine. bumped corners. Designs/patterns etched onto the covers and spine. Previous owner's signature on front free end page dated October 1952. Small yellow bookplate on front inside cover. Slight crack to binding on page 288.Small foxing spots on spome pages. 495 pp. DATE PUBLISHED: 1852 EDITION: FIRST ED.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK, NO DUSTJACKET ISSUED, 1883 ON COPYRIGHT PG , NO DATE ON TITLE PG, 1st edition THUS, First PRINTING, Octavo. Unpaginated. VG+/NF, NO JACKET ISSUED ,Original brown cloth binding with mulit-colour image SILVER BIRD PALLAS and gilt lettering. Gilt foredges top, side, bottom. Very dark brown endpapers. Heavy buff stock. Seventeen illustrations by W. L.Taylor. Book in very good+ to near fine condition with slight wear to head and foot of spine. First thus. TINY NICK ON SPINE CVR ,tracing the man's slow descent into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. The raven, sitting on a bust of Pallas (the goddess of wisdom), seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically. His intention was to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes,
Published by New York: J.S. Redfield, 1850
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Half-Leather. First Edition. Very rare 1850 First Edition set of Poe's Works in 3 Volumes (a 4th volume was added in 1856), 8vo, bound in 3/4 blue levant morocco, with the original covers bound in, with portrait of Poe, and the two other frontispieces engraved, many other illustrations; this edition (with biographical notices by Lowell, Willis, and Griswold commissioned by Poe himself) consisted of the Tales in Volume I, the Poetry and Miscellanies in Volume II, and a third volume with full title, "The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Authorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with Marginalia, Suggestions, and Essays."; Vol 1 is first printing and was originally bound in brown cloth, vol 2 is second with correction to "choir" page 46, also originally in brown cloth, vol 3 first, brown cloth, pages are clean & unfoxed, leather is a little chipped at ends & cracking at hinges (esp. Vol 1), hinges tender but holding, bookplate to first white page of each volume, old bookstore catalog description tacked to first white page of Vol 1 & a magazine portrait of Poe tacked to verso of ffep; the set probably passed through the hands of the legendary Dawson's Bookshop (of Los Angeles) at some point, as Ernest Dawson's bookplate found loose in vol 1, an overall very nice set of the first collected edition of Poe, usually only found in an ex-library state or incomplete; 3 stout sm 8vos: (xx) 483 + 4pp ads; (vi) 7-495pp; (xxxix) 607pp.
Published by J.S. Redfield, New York, 1850
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Together with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol.3: The Literati: Some Honest Opinions about Authorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Works of Personality. Together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays.With a sketch of the author by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. New York: Redfield, 1850. Together with The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 4: Arthur Gordon Pym, &c., New York: Redfield, 1856. Together, 4 volumes, 12mo; BAL 16158, 16159, and 16161. All are first editions, all ex-James J. Hill Library, with light accession markings on the spines, and perforated stamps in the lower margins of the title pages; vol. I is first printing, in BAL's A binding in original brown cloth, front hinge cracked, lacking the engraved frontispiece; Vol. 2 is the second printing in BAL's binding variant F in original blue cloth; Vol. 3 in BAL's binding variant F in original black cloth; Vol. 4 in BAL's binding variant H in original purple cloth; shelf wear, small loss to top of spine of Vol. 4, affecting 2 letters at the top.
Published by J. S. Redfield, New York, 1850
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Frontispiece portrait of Poe by J. Sartain in volume 1, with tissue guard (offsetting onto title). Half-titles in vols. 1 and 4 as issued. 4 vols. 12mo. FIRST EDITIONS, second printings of vols. 1-3, vols. 1-3 in binding E (signed by Geo. W. Alexander); first edition of vol. 4 in a binding not identified in BAL; advertisements in vols. 1 and 4 as called for. "Poe's mother-in-law, Mrs. Clemm, persuaded Griswold a few days after Poe's death to be his literary executor, claiming that Poe had asked for him. The news that Griswold would be the editor of Poe's collected works raised a clamor from Poe's supporters. Griswold was not willing to give up the executorship so long as he believed it was Poe's wish . Griswold used his editing of Poe's works to purge uncomplimentary references to his own work, and he inserted material into letters from Poe that made Poe seem dependent on him and treacherous to other editors such as George Graham, Louis Godey, and George W. Eveleth. His forgeries were not discovered at the time" (ANB). Maria Clemm supplied the Notice to the Reader in vol. 1, which she later regretted after Griswold's scandalous portrait of Poe appeared in vol. 3. The first volume contains the Tales and the second Poems and Miscellanies. The third volume was published separately and comprises the first edition of The Literati, and includes Griswold's infamous sketch of the author. The first three volumes were published in 1850; the fourth volume was not published until 1856. It became the standard edition of Poe's works for 25 years, and served as the model for nearly another quarter of a century. It is also the edition upon which Charles Baudelaire based his famous translations of Poe's works into French in Histoires Extraordinaires (1856), Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires (1857) and Histoires Grotesques et Serieuses (1865). Complete sets of Poe's Works are now quite scarce. BAL 16158, 16159 and 16161; Heartman & Canny, pp. 129-33 Original black blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spines (vols. 1-3); the fourth volume in contemporary black cloth without embossing, gilt-lettered on spine. Volume 1 with losses along joints and chips at ends of spine; other volumes with small chips and losses; volume 4 with brittle and browned endleaves Frontispiece portrait of Poe by J. Sartain in volume 1, with tissue guard (offsetting onto title). Half-titles in vols. 1 and 4 as issued. 4 vols. 12mo.