Edgar Poe the Poet: Essays New and Old on the Man and His Work
by Stovall, Floyd
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0813902657
- ISBN 13
- 9780813902654
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.: University Press of Virginia, 1969. This is a collection of the author's essays on Poe's writings; after a brief biography of Poe to correct the distorted image created by earlier critics, the subsequent essays concentrate on establishing that Poe was at his best as a poet and that his poetic theories were basic to all his work; inscribed by the author on the front end paper to the previous owner, a professor of American literature (blue cloth with gold lettering on the front & spine has slight creases on spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005890
- Title
- Edgar Poe the Poet: Essays New and Old on the Man and His Work
- Author
- Stovall, Floyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0813902657
- ISBN 13
- 9780813902654
- Publisher
- University Press of Virginia
- Place of Publication
- Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism;
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