The Literary Emporium: A Compendium Of Religious, Literary, And Philosophical Knowledge, Volumes 3-4 -

New York: J. K. Wellman, 1846. Rare and highly collectible, contains one the first printings of Edgar Allan Poe's (listed as Edgar A. Poe in the table of contents) famous poem, The Raven (nevermore.) The last entry in the book is Poe's on pages 376-378. Other authors inlcude: John Greenleaf Whittier (John G. Whittier here) with The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick. Quarter leather (leather extended spine and corners) and black marbled (or rubbed) boards. 378 pages with mostly bright pages with tanned borders - pages in center tend to be bright with tanned boarders and some light foxing; endpapers are tanned. (Probably steelcut) black and white engravings. Front cover is detached (but present). Leather spine has gilt titles is rubbed and worn at head and heel. A highly desired volume, worth restoring. We note one previously folded page corner and pages 97/98 have been torn out (it was the beginning of an essay, Luther - His Faith and Work) and is missing. The first publication of this… Read More

New York: J. K. Wellman, 1846. Showing age: shelf worn, front hinge is broken, scuffed and scratched, edge and corner wear, spine is faded, foxing throughout, overall a clean, extremely collectible and rare first edition! Marbled boards with brown leather spine which is gilt lettered. Amazing book, complete and wonderfully well preserved for 160+ years old! Extremely rare and hard-to-find! Very very scarce and out-of-print! 412 unmarked and uncreased historical pages wonderfully illustrated in black and white and color!. First Edition. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.