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Price: US$937.50 + shipping
Description: Black morocco-backed marbled boards with matching leather corners. Illustrated with steel engravings and 6 color plates. First appearance in print of several Poe works: "A Few Words on Secret Writing" (not in the index); "A Chapter on Autography"; "The Colloquy of Monos and Una"; "Never Bet Your Head"; and 2 poems: "To Helen" and "Israfel," as well as several book reviews. Also two articles about Angling. Mostly light, scattered foxing. Rubbing to spine edges and corners; front cover just a little loose. Very Good
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A handsome "very good" tall octavo of 296 pp. with six monthly fashion plates hand-colored by the publisher, appears to be bound in black leather with blind-stamped foliate devices to corners and thin gilt rules around the edges of both boards and some modest rub to corners, with lovely marbled endpapers. COULD be the original binding but certainly 19th century. While the preliminaries and the tissues guarding the plates (the fashion-plates being hand-colored as issued) show some browning, the text pages themselves are unusually clean, showing a few scattered brown spots to pp. 190-205 only. ("Rue Morgue" occupies pp. 166-179, in fairly small type with no illustrations.) Small binder's label of B.S. Merrell, 100 Genesee Street (presumably Banajah Merrell, son of Andrew Merrell, who was listed as a bookbinder in the first directory of the (then) village of Utica, 1817) to top of green-marbled front pastedown.) Also includes Poe's shorter stories "Descent Into the Maelstrom" and "The Island of the Fay." The 1932 Robert Florey film of "Rue Morgue" created a leading role for mad scientist Bela Lugosi. A 1986-made-for-TV feature-length version starred George C. Scott, Rebecca De Mornay, Val KIlmer, and Ian McShane.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.