POE, Edgar Allan. Tales . New York: H. Ludgwig for Wiley and Putnam, 1845. 8 o. Half-title, 4-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Small pale marginal stain to a few leaves, generally fine.) Modern black morocco; cloth folding case. Provenance : Allen P. Myersoll (signature dated "Boston July 1845" on front flyleaf"). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, the copyright notice containing 4 lines and with Ludwig's imprint, the advertisements at end headed "The Poetical Fortune Teller," FIRST ISSUE, with the New York imprint. "HERE... BEGINS THE DETECTIVE STORY, with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' 'Mystery of Marie Roget,' and, primus inter pares , the character of the amateur detective who triumphs over the blundering police, in 'The Purloined Letter'" (Grolier American 55). BAL 16146; Heartman & Canny 90-97; NYPL/Gordan 485; Queen's Quorum 1 ("it is believed that no more than 750 copies of the 1845 Tales were printed"); Yale/Gimbel 61.
POE, Edgar Allan. Tales . New York: H. Ludgwig for Wiley and Putnam, 1845. 8 o. Half-title, 4-page publisher's advertisement at end. (Small pale marginal stain to a few leaves, generally fine.) Modern black morocco; cloth folding case. Provenance : Allen P. Myersoll (signature dated "Boston July 1845" on front flyleaf"). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, the copyright notice containing 4 lines and with Ludwig's imprint, the advertisements at end headed "The Poetical Fortune Teller," FIRST ISSUE, with the New York imprint. "HERE... BEGINS THE DETECTIVE STORY, with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' 'Mystery of Marie Roget,' and, primus inter pares , the character of the amateur detective who triumphs over the blundering police, in 'The Purloined Letter'" (Grolier American 55). BAL 16146; Heartman & Canny 90-97; NYPL/Gordan 485; Queen's Quorum 1 ("it is believed that no more than 750 copies of the 1845 Tales were printed"); Yale/Gimbel 61.
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