[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: E. A. POE TITLE, REDUCED

[Norman Kane]

POE, EDGAR A.  THE CONCHOLOGIST'S FIRST BOOK . . . Phila.: Haswell, Barrington & Haswell, 1839. First edition. 12 plates. BAL 16131: state A of plate 3. Old news clipping portrait of Poe inserted before title, light to moderate foxing, several plates with old ink notations & offset on margins & blank versos.  Old half black leather, joint reinforced inside with paper. (Bound with an incomplete but signed copy of Wheatley's Catalogue of the Shells of the U.S., 1845.) Not the best copy in the world, but maybe the cheapest.  $200.00

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