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Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Brown leather, front cover loose, back missing, text vg. Classics.
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Poe, Edgar Allan. THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1902.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902, 8vo., 150 pages, illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn with a Critical Introduction by Charles F. Richardson. G.P. Putnam's Sons has their name on top edge of front endpage as they did the binding. Book bound in a 3/4 tan leather with leather corners, marbled boards and endpages. Five raised bands with small 4 small gilt vignette's on spine compartments. Dark leather title and author labels on spine. Some browning along edges, else book very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$337.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; 2 volumes from a larger set. Three quarter brown leather bound covers with 5 raised bands over tan cloth boards have wear to extremities but clean and bright. The Tales volume has detached front cover which has been unprofessionally but neatly repaired with white book repair tape on the inside. In very good+ condition. Boards and spines are straight. Bindings are tight. Antiquated gift inscritions on front end sheets. Pages are very modestly toned but clean and in very good condition. Illustrated with headpieces, tailpieces, and tissue protected b&w plates.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$438.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . . . . Limited edition, #211 of 500 copies 8vo., quarter vellum over boards. Spines of volumes I and II show effects of old warer exposure: faded titles and brittle spine edges, Volume I. Rated as Good condition, due to these defects; other eight volumes all in Vg+ condition: clean spines, unworn covers, no marking or writing in any of the 10 volumes. All bindings square and tight. 19th, American, Century, Literature,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$2740.64 + shipping
Description: Titles in red and black. Illus. by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Large 8vo. Contemp. olive green grained half morocco, spine gilt. Top edges gilt. Edited and Chronologically Arranged on the Basis of the Standard Text, With Certain Additional Material and with a Critical Introduction by Charles F. Richardson. Top of spine of vols. I, V, VII, IX worn, minor rubbing to part of extremities. Outside a fine over all, inside mint.
Seller: Peter Bichsel Fine Books, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beautifully bound in 10 volumes by the Knickerbocker press. Hard bound in1/2 leather bindings with 5 raised bands to spine edges. Titles in gilt to spine edge. Gilt top stain. Introduction by Charles F. Richardson. Frontis feature fine photogravure illustrations. 60 photogravure plates illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn with initials, heads and tails, and captioned tissue guards by same. Volumes: #1) Poems; Essays on the Poet's Art.#2) Tales #3) Tales. #4) Tales. #5) Tales. #6) Tales. # 7) Criticisms. #9) Criticisms. #10) Miscellany. A beautiful set that shows only the most minor shelf wear to edges. Rare! [ Heavy - nearly 20 lbs. - Please contact for shipping quote]
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3960.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is the Collector's Arnheim Edition, limited to 300 numbered sets. This being No. 89. beautifully bound in 1/2 dark maroon morocco with raised spines, and gold letting, t.e.g., over dark red boards. Profusely illustrated. An elegant set of Poe in fine condtion. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$4354.94 + shipping
Description: A beautiful limited edition set of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated with ten plates to each volume, and signed by the publisher. The Arnheim Edition of Poe's works.This set is number thirty-seven of three-hundred signed and numbered sets produced, signed by publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons.In half morocco bindings, with cloth covered boards.The collected works of Edgar Allan Poe, a collection of the American author's poetry and short stories, most importantly containing his tales of mystery and the macabre.Volume I, containing 'Poems' and 'Essays on the Poet's Art', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume II, containing 'Tales', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume III, containing 'Tales', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume IV, containing 'Tales', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume V, containing 'Tales', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume VI, containing 'Tales', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume VII, containing 'Criticisms', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume VIII, containing 'Criticisms', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume IX, containing 'Tales', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Volume X, containing 'Miscellany', illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Collated, complete.Critical introductions by Charles F. Richardson.'The Raven' is included in Volume I.The 'Criticisms' includes essays on Elizabeth Barret Browning, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, and more.The 'Miscellany' includes 'Maelzel's Chess-Player', 'Philosophy of Furniture', 'A Chapter on Autography', and more.Plates are printed on on vellum.The plates are the work of Canadian painter Frederick Simpson Coburn, who was also a notable early photographer. In half morocco bindings, with cloth covered boards. Externally, exceptionally bright. Small area of rubbing to centre of front joint of volume VII. Light rubbing to back strip head of volume X. Light rubbing to front joint of volume I, with hinge starting but holding firm. Front hinges of volume II and V strained but firmly held. Head of front hinge of volume VII lightly strained but firmly held. Front hinge of volume VI strained between page vi and following leaf, with first gathering tender. One leaf detached and one gathering working loose to volume III. Otherwise, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright, with light spotting to fore edge of final few leaves of volume III. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: The Annabel edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, ten volumes, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 60 photogravures, each with a lettered tissue guard. In very good condition. A sharp set. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, American Romantic writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the genre of detective fiction and contributing to the genre of science fiction, only just emerging at the turn of the 20th century. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe's most memorable tales include: The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Gold-Bug, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, and The Tell-Tale Heart.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN. The Complete Works (Arnheim Edition). G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York, 1902.
Price: US$5235.84 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Ten (10) volumes in publisher's gilt lettered and decorated half vellum over grey paper boards. Gilt stamped Raven device on front panel of each volume. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Near fine copies in tight square bindings. Illustrated throught by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies only, this being #159, signed by G. P. Putnams Sons. A very attractive set.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada