[Rarebooks] For Sale: Poe's "Works," vols 1-3, 1852.

[Norman Kane]

POE, EDGAR ALLAN.   THE WORKS . . . WITH NOTICES OF HIS LIFE AND 
GENIUS. BY N. P. WILLIS, J. R. LOWELL, AND R. W. GRISWOLD . . . 
VOLUME I, TALES [ VOLUME II, POEMS AND MISCELLANIES; VOLUME III, THE 
LITERATI . . . TOGETHER WITH MARGINALIA, SUGGESTIONS, AND 
ESSAYS.  WITH A SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR BY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD.]
New York: J. S. Redfield, 1852 (Vol. 3 has the added imprint of J. B 
. Mussey & Co., Boston.)   Matching vertically ribbed cloth bindings, 
7 1/2 X 5 inches,
blindstamped decorations on both covers and spines, spines printed in 
gilt, top
1/4 inch of vol. 2 worn, otherwise very good, sound copies with just 
slight wear, a few leaves in vol. 1 carelessly opened, some 
foxing.  Frontispiece in volume 1.
Early edition of this important work; a 4th volume (not present) was 
published  later, in 1856.  (Griswold's infamous "Memoir" contains 
references to Poe's
"gambling, intemperance and other vices," describing him as living "a 
very dissipated life" while at the University of Virginia,"the 
wildest and most reckless student of his class," &c. There has been 
much speculation as to why Griswold, Poe's literary executor, should 
have chosen to portray Poe in this dubious 
light.)  $390.00                            (Trade Discount Available)


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