[Rarebooks] FS: The Spectacles by Edgar Allan Poe - 1938 Poe Hoax

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“The Spectacles by Edgar Allan Poe”

Published in Philadelphia by Richard Gimbel in July, 1938. No. 43 of an 
edition limited to 100 copies (the limitation appears on the inside of 
the back cover in very hard-to-read black print on dark blue).

Theoretically a long-lost variant of Poe’s short story, “The 
Spectacles", published in 1844. That was what the leading Poe collector 
of the day, Richard Gimbel believed when he “discovered” it and had it 
printed in this special, limited edition in 1938. But alas, Baltimore’s 
Edgar Allan Poe Society, which may be considered the last scholarly word 
on the issue, lists the publication on its website under “Miscellaneous 
Texts and Related Items: Forgeries”.

The Poe Society continues- ‘The Spectacles’ — supposedly 1830 — source 
uncertain, claiming to have been published by Carey & Lea in 
Philadelphia. (This text was printed in Liberty magazine for September 
24, 1938 and was reprinted as a pamphlet by Richard Gimbel in 1938. It 
is certainly a modern fake, see Savoye. The text appears to have been 
taken from a reprint of the story in Godey’s Lady’s Book for April 
1836)”.

Card covers. 3.5”x5.5”, 14 pages. Minor soil, light wear. [43792]  $250

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