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[McKEE COPY] EDGAR ALLEN POE FIRST EDITION

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[McKEE COPY] EDGAR ALLEN POE FIRST EDITION

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"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Of Nantucket... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838," 12mo, with 14-page catalogue and 2-page advertisement in the back, front wrapper with book plate of famed American book collector Thomas Jefferson McKee, also with bookplates of C. Fiske Harris and Frank Maier, bound in 3/4 blue morocco, top edges gilt
h. 7-1/2 w. 4-3/4 in.

Provenance: Descent through the family of a late Greenwich, CT centenarian

The first American edition of Poe's only novel.

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excellent, with small bump to the top edge of pages

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