Description:
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) The Complete Works, and One Other. Ten octavo volumes, New York: Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1902, from the Collector's Eldorado edition, number 82 of 150 sets, illustrated, bound in uniform half green morocco with textured cloth boards, t.e.g., gold-tooled decorated spines, the leather faded; [and] The Raven and the Philosophy of Composition, San Francisco & New York: Paul Elder & Co., [1907], quarto, one of 1,000 copies printed at the Tomoye Press, illustrated with photogravure frontispiece and twelve engraved plates after paintings by Galen J. Perrett, with initials and decorations by Will Jenkins, typography designed by John Henry Nash; original quarter suede and boards, spine perished, in the original dust jacket (also lacking spine panel) and publisher's slipcase. (11)
Estimate $150-200
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Keywords
Paul Elder & Co., John Henry Nash, Edgar Allan, Galen J. PerrettJohn Dorfman
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