Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
POE, EDGAR ALLAN. The Purloined Letter. [in:] The Gift. Engraved frontispiece, additional title-vignette and plates. 8vo, original red sheep gilt, lettering piece to spine, hinges repaired, few other touch-ups, minor rubbing at edges and joints, short tears at spine head and tips; scattered light to moderate foxing throughout; later cloth slipcase. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845 [i.e. 1844]
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first appearance in print of perhaps the greatest of Poe's detective stories. The debut of "the character of the amateur detective who triumphs over the blundering police" (Grolier, American, 55n). First printing of the third and last of Poe's detective tales. Lilly 100, p. 13.