Lot 305
Poe, Edgar Allan
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The purloined Letter [in] The gift. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. First printing of Poe's celebrated story, additional engraved title and frontispiece, illustrations, original red cloth gilt, g.e, very slight occasional browning, wear to edges of binding, cloth torn at head and base of the spine; Conrad, Joseph. The secret agent. London: Methuen, 1907. First edition, original red cloth, spine gilt, foxing to fore-edge; [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne] ("Mark Twain"). The stolen white elephant. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1882. First American edition, advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, edges of binding worn, upper joint slightly torn, spine stained; Stevenson, R.L.& L. Osbourne. The wrecker. Cassell & Company, 1892. First edition, illustrated by W. Hole and W.L. Metcalf, original blue cloth, some wear to binding, spine darkened; [Ibid.] The wrong box. Longmans, Green, and co., 1889. First edition, publisher's advertisements at end, issue with contents printed in large type above decorative rule, original red cloth, lettered in black on upper cover, in gilt on spine; Stevenson, Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson. More new Arabian nights. The dynamiter. Longmans, Green, and co., 1885. First edition, original cloth lettered in black, spine creased; 8vo (6)