Raven American Review Whig Journal by Poe Edgar Allan (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Nice solid quite clean copy of Volume one of the American Review. Binding tight with normal light wear. Endpapers not split or marked. First 30 pages have a small water mark to top left edges. Both engravings present before title. All contents tight and quite clean with very minor foxing. As good as and better than most copies we see on line. Contains Poe's famous poem The Raven in the February issue along with several other Poe items. Other listing describe in detail.

Leather bound. Condition: Very good. 656pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Two frontispiece illustrations. Tidemarks in the top fore-edge corners of the frontispiece illustrations (only just barely affecting the illustrations). Frontispiece tissue-guard torn, with loss. Occasional light foxing to the pages. The Raven is on pp. 143-145. Also with Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy," p. 363 (first printing), "The Valley of Unrest," p. 392, and "The City of the Sea," p. 393. Heartman and Canny, pp. 145/146. Robertson, pp. 215/216. The first setting up in type of "The Raven." "The Raven," a melancholy summoning of lost love, is Poe's best known poem. The rhyme pattern enhances the poem's lyrical gloom. First periodical appearance of "The Raven".

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Beautiful, extremely informative and entertaining 8-volume set. First ever printing of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe printed on page 143 under the pseudonym "Quarles." This pseudonym was in keeping with the American Review s practice of publishing poetry unsigned or under a pen name. Also includes Poe's story "Some Words With a Mummy" (363-370), and the poems "The Valley of Unrest" and "The City in the Sea" (392-3). Set in type from Poe s manuscript, The Raven was first printed in the American Review in January 1845 (issue dated February, 1845) and struck an immediate chord with the public and was reprinted in magazines and newspapers throughout the country. Includes bound volumes 1-8, 1845-1848 of The American Review: A Whig Journal, published monthly. Each volume with marbled boards w/moderate rub, black conditioned leather spine wrap, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear relevant to age. Half-bound in contemporary leather binding and corners. Pages good; some with fox, toning. Antiquarian owner's name to several title pages, some with initials, few with brief pencilled notations. Six volumes measuring 5 3/4" x 9" and two 6" x 9 1/4"; each apprx. 1-2" thick. The American Review was vibrant, comprehensive intellectual and entertainment media, in addition to being a source of opinion and information. It was cultural expression in the largest sense. The American Review contained articles of various lengths and subject matter; true to Whig form, however, the longest articles developed philosophical, religious, and historical themes in detail, or else, provided in-depth biographical information on the leading statesmen of the day. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

First appearance in print of The Raven, one of the most famous and recognizable poems ever written, which Poe considered his finest poem, calling it â the greatest poem that was ever written.â Octavo, original wrappers. In keeping with the policy of The American Review which required that poems be published anonymously or with a pseudonym, the poem, which appears on page 143 is credited to 'Quarles.' In very good condition. Rare in the original wrappers. The Raven and Other Poems â was published at one of the low ebbs of Poeâ s fortunes, when his Broadway Journal was about to expire, and is thus characterized by his biographer Hervey Allen: The most important volume of poetry that had been issued up to that time in Americaâ ¦ In this little volume the weary, wayworn wanderer had successfully reached his own native shore in the realm of imaginationâ (Grolier, 100 American 56). Poe considered â The Ravenâ to be his finest poemâ "indeed, he was quoted as saying it was the finest poem ever written. Dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Barrett and first published in book form by Wiley & Putnam in November 1845 in an edition of roughly 750 copies, The Raven and Other Poems "made Poe's name known both in America and England, and brought him an immortality that by no other means could he have attained" (Robertson, 224).