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POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Tales. Half-title. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf over marbled boards, front joint cracked with first two blanks loose, extremities worn with chip to spine head; diminishing tidemark at fore-edges to preliminaries and first 9 pages, moderate foxing chiefly to blank margins, lacking advertisements; custom tan buckram chemise and slipcase with morocco lettering piece. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845
first edition, first printing with the imprints of T. B. Smith and H. Ludwig on the copyright page. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Queen's Quorum 1 ("the first important book of detective fiction, the first and the greatest, the cornerstone of cornerstones in any readers' or collectors' guide, the highest of all highspots"); BAL 16146; Grolier, 100 American, 55; Heartman and Canny, pp. 90-97; Yale/Gimbel 61.
