RARE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF POE'S WORKS
POE, Edgar Allan. Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe. New York, 1850, 1856 (Volume IV). Four volumes.
First collected edition of Poe's complete works, published one year after his death, with steel-engraved portrait of Poe in Volume I. This set includes the separately published third and fourth volumes, which includes the first edition in book form of Poe's The Literati, his essays on contemporary authors (Volume III), and Rufus Griswold's notorious "Memoir of the Author," a smear penned by Poe's ill-chosen executor. $6000.
READ MORE
“ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF AMERICAN ECONOMICS WRITINGS” (HAZLITT)
ANDERSON, Benjamin McAlester. The Value of Money. New York, 1917.
First edition of this “devastating critique of leading American economist Irving Fisher’s quantity theory of money” (ANB). $950.
READ MORE
"AN EPOCH IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE"
PERCY, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. London, 1812. Three volumes.
Revised fifth edition of Percy’s Reliques, in handsome straight-grain morocco-gilt bindings. $900.
READ MORE