1850 Leaflets of Memory Gift Book 1st Printing Edgar A POE SONNET TO MY MOTHER
Published by Butler & Co., 1849
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2006
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 300.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Leaflets of Memory: An Illuminated Annual for MDCCCL, Reynell Coates, Edgar Allan Poe, Butler & Co., Philadelphia, 1850, full leather, 9.5 x 6.5 , 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities. Joints partially cracked with exposed binding. Slight scuffing overall to leather. Gilt finishing lightly rubbed but remains bright and clean. All edges gilt. Interior lightly toned with moderate foxing. Free of known markings. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Contains a first printing of Poe s Sonnet to My Mother. This poem is addressed, of course, to Poe s mother-in-law and aunt, Maria Clemm. This same version of the poem was printed in Sartain s Union Magazine, December 1849. Reynell Coates (1802-1886) was an American physician, scientist, teacher and poet. Be apprenticed under Benjamin Rush at age fifteen at Pennsylvania Hospital. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1823 and became resident physician at the hospital. He edited this illustrated collection of short stories and verse.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- 1850 Leaflets of Memory Gift Book 1st Printing Edgar A POE SONNET TO MY MOTHER
- Author
- Coates, Reynell, Poe, Edgar Allen
- Publisher
- Butler & Co.
- Publication year
- 1849
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- Collectibles Room
ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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Harrisburg, PA U.S.A. 17110
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