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1856 Works Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Annabel Lee Macabre Civil War PROVENANCE 4v
1856 Works Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Annabel Lee Macabre Civil War PROVENANCE 4v
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1856 Works Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Annabel Lee Macabre Civil War PROVENANCE 4v



A highly rare 19th-century collection of Edgar Allan Poes works that have many of his famous poems such as, The Raven, The Bells, Annabel Lee, Lenore, and much more! Also included are biographic notes and commentary by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, N.P. Willis, and J.R. Lowell.



Edgar Allan Poe is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in American literature, and he was one of the nations earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.



Item number: #40242

Price: $950



POE, Edgar Allan



The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe with a memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and notices of his life and genius by N.P. Willis and J.R. Lowell in four volumes



New York: J.S. Redfield, 1856-1859.



Details:

Collation: Complete; 4 volumes

Vol. I – [2], lv, [1], 483, [1]

Vol. II – xxvi, 7-495, [1]

New York: Blakeman & Mason, 1859.

Vol. III – iv, [21]-607, [1]

Vol. IV – xi, [12]-447, [1], 10

References: BAL 16161; Sabin 63570

Provenance: Handwritten – Thomas H. Hubbard, 1859

Thomas Hamlin Hubbard (1838–1915) a Union Army colonel from Maine during the Civil War who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers, for meritorious service. After the war, Hubbard was a lawyer, railroad executive, financier, businessman and philanthropist, best known for his enthusiasm for Arctic exploration, which contributed to Robert Pearys discovery of the North Pole.

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Brown cloth

Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13.5cm)



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