[Rarebooks] FS: 1845 Edgar Allan Poe Portrait and THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE

[Charles Agvent]

(POE, Edgar Allan). THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE in GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE. Vols. 
XXVI & XXVII: Jan. 1845-Dec. 1845. Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1845. 
First Edition. Two volumes bound in one, publisher's gilt-lettered black 
morocco leather and marbled boards with matching leather corners. 
Illustrated with steel engravings, 7 of them by Carl Bodmer, mostly of 
Native Americans. First appearance in print of Poe's THE IMP OF THE 
PERVERSE and THE SYSTEM OF DR. TARR AND PROF. FETHER as well as a 
profile of Poe by James Russell Lowell with a steel-engraved portrait of 
Poe and a review of Poe's book TALES. Also with contributions by James 
Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, 
Bayard Taylor, and others. Ex-Library marked withdrawn, a few pages of 
text lacking but not from any significant piece; text and plates quite 
clean. Binding is broken with the text block loose in the covers, large 
chip at head of spine. Good overall. (#020818)        $100

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