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.
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SIGNED BY TONI MORRISON
MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. New York, 1987.
First edition of Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning story of escaped slave Sethe and her relationship with a "disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved," signed on the title page by the author. $1700.
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"THE LOVELIEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE BUT SHADOWS; THEY COME AND GO, AND CHANGE AND FADE AWAY"
DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London, 1844.
First edition in book form of Dickens' picaresque novel of "farce, melodrama, and social criticism," with 40 full-page etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne ("Phiz"), attractively bound. $1500.
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