[Rarebooks] FS: Edgar Allan Poe First Appearance THE CONQUEROR WORM, 1843

[Charles Agvent]

(POE, Edgar Allan). THE CONQUEROR WORM and two other pieces in GRAHAM'S 
MAGAZINE. Vols. XXII & XXIII: January 1843-December 1843. Philadelphia: 
George R. Graham, 1843. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one, 
publisher's full tree calf leather with gilt-lettered red morocco spine 
labels. Illustrated with 38 steel engravings, 5 of which are 
hand-colored. Illustrations include fashion plates as well as portraits 
of Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant. First appearance in print of 
THE CONQUEROR WORM, Poe's poem about human mortality and the 
inevitability of death, as well as 4 minor pieces by Poe. Also with 
contributions by James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Longfellow, James Russell 
Lowell, and others. Attractive railroad bookplate of Robert Heysham 
Sayre (1824-1907), vice president and chief engineer of the Lehigh 
Valley Railroad. Internally clean, binding quite nice with just a little 
fraying along the spine edges with a short split at the top. Near Fine. 
(#020821)        $400

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