[Rarebooks] FS: First Printing of Edgar Allan Poe's THE RAVEN, 1845

[Charles Agvent]

POE, Edgar Allan. THE RAVEN in THE AMERICAN REVIEW. Volume I, #1 - #6. 
New York: George H. Colton, 1845. First Edition. Bound in recent half 
black polished calf leather with matching corners and contemporary 
marbled boards with marbled endpapers; [ii], iv, 656 pages. First 
appearance in print of "The Raven," considered by Poe to be his finest 
poem. A number of Poe's works first appeared in THE AMERICAN REVIEW, 
edited by George H. Colton who died prematurely of typhus at the age of 
thirty in 1847. "The Raven" appears here on pages 143-145 under the 
pseudonym "Quarles." Other works appearing here by Poe include the short 
story "Some Words With a Mummy" (pages 363-370) and the poems "The 
Valley of Unrest" (page 392) and "The City in the Sea. A Prophecy" (page 
393). There are also two appearances by Walt Whitman: "The Boy-Lover" 
(page 479) and "The Death of Wind-Foot" (pages 639-642). This printing 
of "The Raven" is considered to precede its publication in the NEW YORK 
MIRROR on 29 January 1845. The poem earned immediate popularity and 
maintains its place as one of the most popular American poems. 
Illustrated with 3 engraved portraits. This copy with the editor's name, 
George H. Colton, as publisher in place of Wiley and Putnam, the imprint 
usually found for the bound volume of these issues. Scattered light 
foxing. Close to Fine. (#020754)     $4,500

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