1883 Scarce Edition - Poems of Edgar Allan POE (The Raven, Lenore, ...) with Memoir. Illustrated.

 

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Title : Poems of  Edgar Allan Poe with Memoir.
Publisher : New York : John B. Alden, Publisher, 1883.
Language : Text in English
Size : 7.5 " X 5 "
Pages : 196 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good full Victorian decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (ight, some light foxing mainly on first and last pages, name of a previous owner on first endpaper - as shown)
Illustrations : Illustrated with a nice frontis portrait and some full page illustrations.

The book : Attractive and scarce edition (Alden) of the Poems by Edgar Allan Poe.

The author: Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.