?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Tales. 6 pages publisher's ads at end. Half-title. 8vo, later full green morocco, blind-stamped boards, spine gilt; scattered light browning and foxing, outer upper corners of two leaves (pp. 223-226) torn with loss of page numerals and three words, LMS bookplate laid-in; custom fleece-lined 1/4 cloth drop-back case. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845
first edition, second printing with the copyright notice in four lines, and R. Craigheads and T.B. Smith imprints on the copyright page. BAL 16146; Grolier American Hundred, 55; Queen's Quorum 1, calling this volume "The first and greatest, the cornerstone of cornerstones in any readers or collectors guide, the highest of all high spots."
