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Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) The Raven, published in The American Review: A Whig Journal.
New York: Wiley & Putnam, January-June, 1845.
Octavo, one of two appearances of the poem in print, arguably the first in magazine form, following newspaper publication in the Evening Mirror; consisting of six months of the magazines, and including other poems by Poe, "Valley of Unrest," and "The City in the Sea," together with two short pieces by Walt Whitman, "The Boy-Lover," and "Death of Wind-Foot," among other works; bound in contemporary half red textured leather and worn marbled paper boards; contents generally good; housed in a custom folding box; 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
