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THE SCOTT GREENBAUM COLLECTION OF LITERARY FIRST EDITIONS
"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"
Edgar Allan Poe, 1845
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"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"
Edgar Allan Poe, 1845
POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). "The Raven" in The American Review. Volume I, number II. New York: Wiley and Putnam, February 1845 [but early January].
First printing of Poe's Raven, which appears anonymously on p. 143 as "by --- Quarles." The first appearance of "The Raven" is something of a bibliographical dispute. Heartman and Canny consider this presentation to be the first printing, maintaining that the 29 January 1845 appearance in The Evening Mirror is not the first. The American Review had announced that "No. II will bear date Feb. 1845, but will be issued early in January," thus, unless the publishers were unable to issue the work by the date promised, the present version clearly predates the late January appearance in The Evening Mirror.
Octavo (222 x 140mm). Frontispiece portrait of Henry Clay. Two stanzas in the poem bear contemporary pen emphasis marks in margin. Modern quarter morocco gilt.
Edgar Allan Poe, 1845
POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). "The Raven" in The American Review. Volume I, number II. New York: Wiley and Putnam, February 1845 [but early January].
First printing of Poe's Raven, which appears anonymously on p. 143 as "by --- Quarles." The first appearance of "The Raven" is something of a bibliographical dispute. Heartman and Canny consider this presentation to be the first printing, maintaining that the 29 January 1845 appearance in The Evening Mirror is not the first. The American Review had announced that "No. II will bear date Feb. 1845, but will be issued early in January," thus, unless the publishers were unable to issue the work by the date promised, the present version clearly predates the late January appearance in The Evening Mirror.
Octavo (222 x 140mm). Frontispiece portrait of Henry Clay. Two stanzas in the poem bear contemporary pen emphasis marks in margin. Modern quarter morocco gilt.
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