August 2020 Catalogue

F i n e N e w A c q u i s i t i o n s 42 “No Lover Of Poe… Will Account The Arnheim Edition Superfluous” ( New York Times ) 40. POE, Edgar Allan. The Complete Works. New York, 1902. Ten volumes. Octavo, publisher’s half vellum gilt. $4500. Click for more info Limited “Book-Lover’s Arnheim” edition of Poe’s stories, poems and essays, one of 500 sets, with 100 beautiful illustrations on Japan vellum paper—including 73 after paintings by Frederick Simpson Coburn—and lovely woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. “Poe was the founder of the modern detective story… [as well as] the ablest critic of his time in America” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 625). With introduction by Charles Richardson and 100 plates of photogravures, many after paintings by Canadian artist Frederick Simpson Coburn. A beautiful set in unusually fine condition. “He was an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul.”—D.H. Lawrence