SOME LETTERS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE TO E. H. N. PATTERSON OF OQUAWKA, ILLINOIS, WITH COMMENTS BY EUGENE FIELD

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 186 copies printed by R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company at the Lakeside Press on American hand-made paper. The first publication of Edgar Allan Poe's letters to Edward Howard Norton Patterson (1828-80), a young newspaper publisher in Oquawka, Illinois, who corresponded with the eminent author in an effort to launch a new literary magazine called The Stylus in that river town. Quarto: 32, [2] pp. with 6 fine facsimiles of Poe's letters. Original rust cloth binding, with a printed title label inset on each board. The spine is darkened a touch, with some fraying and loss to the spine head; else about very good. (Inventory #: 78086)