POE, Edgar A.. THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN. Colt Press, San Francisco, (CA), 1947.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Description: First separate edition (first published serially in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, in six installments, January - June, 1840), 1/500 unnumbered copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 4to. (6), 76 pp. Illustrated from colored wood engraving by Mallette Dean. "An account of the first passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America ever achieved by a civilized man." Original cloth-backed marbled boards (lower edges and corners a little rubbed), printed paper spine label. Very good.

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Gjoa Foundation. An Account of the Perilous Voyage of the Ship Gjoa: Her Arrival in the Bay of San Francisco: The Reception tendered to Capt. Roald Amundsen and his Crew by the Citizens of San Francisco: The Ultimate Deisposition of the Gjoa. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1947.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: Very good. Red wrappers with light pink lettering.

Seller: Valley Books, Cupertino, CA, U.S.A.

Poe, Edgar Allan; Dean, Mallette (Illus.); Grabhorn Press. The Journal of Julius Rodman [Being an Account of the First Passage Across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man]. San Francisco: Colt Press / Grabhorn Press, 1947.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Cloth-backed decorative paper over boards, paper spine label; pp. [10], 76, [1] (limitation page), with colored wood engravings by Mallette Dean. Spine tips and edges of boards gently rubbed, else fine. Bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

Poe, Edgar A.. The Journal of Julius Rodman. The Colt Press, San Francisco, 1947.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First book appearance of this work. Limited to 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Small quarto. 82pp. Seven color wood engravings by Mallette Dean. Handset Oxford type. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label printed in blue and brown. A fine copy. This uncompleted journal originally appeared in 1840 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, of which Poe was then editor. It appears that the "Journal" might be a made-up diary based on an account by John K. Townsend, who in 1839 published a Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains. Other scholars contend that Poe's work might be based on an earlier trip of exploration into the interior regions of the North American continent, not necessarily Townsend's account. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. [Grabhorn: 443].

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