POE EDGAR ALLAN The Conchologists First Book 1839 Issue wi

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POE, EDGAR ALLAN. The Conchologist's First Book; or, A System of Testaceous Malacology, arranged expressly for the Use of Schools. 12 hand-colored lithographed plates. 12mo, original sheep-backed pictorial boards, worn, rear cover loose, portions of paper missing from front board with partial image loss; text variously foxed, plates relatively clean apart from pencil notes on plate 4. Philadelphia, 1839

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first edition of a pirated edition of Thomas Brown''s The Conchologist''s Text-Book (Glasgow, 1833), edited with a preface by Poe; issue with hand-colored plates, state A of plate 3. BAL 16131; Hartman & Canny, page 41; Norman 1720.