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Edgar Allan Poe

Male : Poet & Story Writer. Married his cousin Virginia Clemm in 1836 (she was 13 at the time). They lived in poverty in New York and Virginia died in 1837. Creator of Le Chevalier C Auguste Dupin. Died of alcohol-related disease, or possibly rabies
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Boston, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1809 Date of Death : 1849 Age : 40

Other Work : Journalist & editor

Education : University of Virginia (expelled), Westpoint (court martialled for neglecting his duties)
1827-1830
Tamerlane and Other Poems
(1827 Calvin F S Thomas, Boston) - only 12 copies. Anon by 'A Bostonian'
[Possibly valued at £150.000 +]
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
(1829 Hatch & Dunning)

1831-1840
Poems
(1831 Elam Bliss)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym's Adventures
(1838 Harper)
(1838 Wiley & Putnam, Whitaker, and Charles Tilt) - Anon
The Conchologists First Book
(1839 Haswell, Barrington & Baswell) - the first edition has coloured plates
(1840 2nd Ed)
Tales of the Grotesque & Arabesque
(1840 Lea & Blanchard, Phila) - 2 vols

1841-1850
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1843 William H Graham Pb)
[The first detective story]
[Filmed in 1932 & 1971]
(In) Graham's Lady's & Gentleman's Magazine : Vol 18/19 George R Graham, Phila
"The Pit and the Pendulum" in The Gift
(1842 Carey & Hart)
[Filmed in 1967 as "The Blood Demon"]
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the Man who was Used Up
(1843)
[Filmed in 1954]
The Tales
(1845 Wiley & Putnam) - edited by E A Duyckincke
The Raven and Other Poems
(1845 Wiley & Putnam, NY)
Mesmerism "In Articulo Mortis" : An Astounding & Horrifying Narrative
(1846 Short & Co, London) - 16 pp pamphlet
Offered in 1999 for £1820
Eureka : A Prose Poem
(1848 Putnam NY)
Offered in 1999 for £2120
The Literati
(1850 J S Redfield, NY)
The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
(1850 J S Redfield, NY) - 3 vols

1851-1870
Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Humour, and Poems
(1852 Simms & McIntyre, London)
The Poetical Works
(1853 Addey & Co) (1856 Addey & Co, London 2nd Ed)
- E H Wehnert, Harrison Weir, et al
The Poetical Works .. with Original Memoir
(1858 Sampson Low) - Pickersgill, Birket Foster, et al
(nd. c1865 Ward, Lock & Tyler)
The Poetical Works
(1859 W Kent, London) - 1st enlarged edition of 1st illustrated edition
Poems
(1869 W J Widdleton, NY)

1871-1890
The Raven
(1883 Sampson Low) (1884 Harper) - Gustave Dore
Tamerlane and Other Poems
(1884 Redway) - facsimile of 1827 edition. 100 copies
The Works
(1884 Armstrong, NY) - 6 vols
The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe
(1885 Canterbury Poets)

1891-1900
The Works
(edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman & G E Woodberry)
(1894-5 Stone & Kimball, Chicago) - 10 vols
The Works
(c1896 Routledge : Fordham edition) - 6 vols
The Raven & The Pit and the Pendulum
(1899 Smithers) - William T Horton
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
(1900 G Bell) - Heath Robinson ]
Tales and Poems - with Biographical Essay
(c1900 E B Hall, NY) - 6 vols

1901-1920
Poems done into a Printed Book by the Roycrofters East Aurora
(1901 NY)
The Raven
(1901 Gay & Bird, London) - 50
The Complete Works
(1902 Putnam, NY / Knickerbocker Press, London) - 10 vols. 1050
The Tales & Poems
(1902 Putnam, NY) - 6 vols. F S Coburn
The Works
(1902 Scribner NY) - 10 vols
The Works
(1908 Lippincott) - 8 vols
Selected Tales of Mystery
(1909 Sidgwick & Jackson) - Byam Shaw
The Poems
(1910 Bell, London) - W Heath Robinson
The Bells and Other Poems
(1912 Hodder & Stoughton) - 750 signed by Edmund Dulac
The Works
(edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman & George Woodberyy)
(1914 Scribner NY) - 10 vols
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
(1919 Harrap) (1928 Harrap) - Harry Clarke
Offered in 1991 for £245

1921-1930
Edar Allan Poe's Letters till now Unpublished
(1925 Lippincott) - 1500
(1925 Lippincott UK - 325)
A Chapter of Autobiography
(Edited by Don C Seitz) (1926 Dial Press NY) - 750
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
(1928 Harrap) - Harry Clarke
The Fall of the House of Usher
(1928 Editions Narcisse, Paris) - 300. Alastair
[Filmed in 1990 as "House of Usher"]
The Fall of the House of Usher
(1930 Halcyon Press, Maastricht) - 325. Alexandre Alexeieff
[Filmed in 1928]
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
(1930 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Rene Clarke
Tales
(1930 Lakeside Press, Chicago) - 1000. W A Dwiggins

1931-1950
The Purloined Letter
(1931 Ulysses Bookshop) - 325
The Masque of the Red Death & Other Tales
(1932 Halcyon Press, Maastricht)
- 206. John Buckland-Wright
[Filmed in 1964]
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
(1933 Tudor, NY) - Harry Clarke
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
(1935 Harrap) - 460 signed by Arthur Rackham
Poems
(1939 Peter Pauper Press, Mt Vernon) - 1450
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
(1941 Limited Editions Club) - William Sharp
Anastatic Printing : As Described by Poe in 1845
(1946 Silver Quoin Press, Chicago) - 150
The Complete Poems
(1946 Knopf) - 2 vols. E McKnight Kauffer
The Journal of Julius Rodman
(1947 Grabhorn Press for the Colt Press, SF) - 500

After 1951
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
(1957 Folio Society) - Michael Ayrton
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1958 Allen Press, Antibes, France) - 150
Offered at £405 in 1998
The Mask of the Red Death
(1969 Aquarius Press, Baltimore)
- 500 signed by Frederico Castellon
Tales
(1974 Franklin Library)
The Collected Works : Tales & Sketches 1843-1849
(1978 Harvard UP £31.50) - 2 vols
The Fall of the House of Usher
(1985 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1500 signed by Alice Steel & Raphael Soyer
Offered in 1991 for £495

READING
Sarah Helen Whitman : Edgar Poe and His Critics
(1860 Rudd & Carleton, NY)
George Woodberry : Edgar Allan Poe
(1885 Houghton Mifflin)
John W Robertson : Edgar A Poe : A Study
(1921 Bruce Brough, SF)
George W Eveleth : The Letters from Eveleth to Edgar Allan Poe
(1922 NY)
Joseph Wood Krutch : Edgar Allan Poe - A Study in Genius
(1926 NY)
Hervey Allen : Israfel - The Life & Times of Edgar Allan Poe
(1926 Doran, NY) - 2 vols
A Census of First Editions and Source Materials by Edgar Allan Poe
(1932 PP : Metuchen, New Jersey) - 2 vols
Edward Wagenknecht : Edgar Allan Poe
(1963 OUP, NY)
Stuart Levine : Edgar Poe - Seer & Craftsman
(1972 Everett, Edwards, Florida)
(Ed) Harold Beaver : The science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe (1972 Penguin)
Joseph Moldenhaurer : A Descriptive Catalogue of the Edgar Allan Poe MS
(1973 Humanities Research, Austin)
Wolf Mankowitz : The Extraordinary Mr Poe
(1978 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £6.50)

Related Writers

Michael Ayrton
John Buckland-wright
Edmund Dulac
Folio Society
Arthur Rackham


See also

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
Arthur Michell Ransome
Julian Gustave Symons
John Orley Allen Tate