1887 Rare Book - The Complete Poetical Works Of EDGAR ALLAN POE.
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Author : Edgar Allan Poe.
Title : The Complete Poetical Works of EDGAR ALLAN POE. With Memoir by J. H. Ingram.
Publisher : Chicago and New York, Belford, Clarke & Co. 1887.
Language : Text in English.
Size : 7.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages : 260 pages.
Binding : Attractive and very good full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing and staining, yellowing of pages - as shown, bookplate of a previous owner on first endpaper).
Illustration: Complete with the frontispiece portrait of Poe.
The book : Nice Victorian edition 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.