A beautifully bound copy of this early, important, and passionate posthumous defense of Poe, by his fiancé.
Near fine.
Price: $350.00
From the preface: "Dr. Griswold's Memoir of Edgar Poe has been extensively read and circulated; its perverted facts and baseless assumptions have been adopted into every subsequent memoir and notice of the poet and have been translated into many languages. For ten years this great wrong to the dead has passed unchallenged and unrebuked. As an index to a more equitable and intelligible theory of the idiosyncrasies of his life, and as an earnest protest against the spirit of Dr. Griswold's unjust memoir, these pages are submitted to more candid readers and critics by one of his friends."
Early edition. New York: Rudd & Carleton, [1860]. 7.25'' x 4.5''. Modern full brown crushed morocco with original covers and spine bound in. Gilt spine titles (incorrectly noting edition). 82, [6, publisher ads] pages. Pages faintly toned. Trace wear at extremities of binding. Overall, lovely.
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