EDGAR ALLAN POE LETTERS TILL NOW UNPUBLISHED IN THE VALENTINE MUSEUM, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: Introductory Essay and Commentary by Mary Newton Stanard

Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 281 of 325 copies for England, with a total limitation was 1,550 copies, of the Valentine Museum’s significant collection of all extant letters between Poe and his adoptive father, John Allan. These letters follow Poe through his years at the University of Virginia, the death of his foster mother, quarrels with his father over money and, finally, his desperate plea for reconciliation and financial support from Mr. Allan. Tall octavo: [ii], 327, [5] pp. with a frontispiece portrait, 14 plates, and facsimiles throughout. Largely uncut. Original decorative paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine with gilt-stamped titles. Internally crisp and clean. The boards are edgeworn and showing at the corners and elsewhere; else about very good. BAL 16184. (Inventory #: 78082)