SOURCE FOR EDGAR ALLAN POE: Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
by Warren, Samuel (1807-1877)
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- very good
- Hardcover
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1832. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition (published 1832-38), octavo, three volumes; xii, 388; 409; 509pp. In contemporary half calf (lightly worn), spines divided into five compartments with gilt rolls and double fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively. Early ownership labels to front endpapers, neat early ink ownership names to head of each title page, early pencil ownership inscription to opening blank of volume three, half-titles present in all three volumes. Clean attractive copy in first edition of Warren's often macabre tales that have received considerable scholarly attention as a source for Edgar Allan Poe's works of mystery and the supernatural.
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- Title
- SOURCE FOR EDGAR ALLAN POE: Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
- Author
- Warren, Samuel (1807-1877)
- Format/Binding
- Half leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Blackwood
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1832
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- samuel warren ghost supernatural mystery suspense macabre edgar allan poe terror horror unexplained thriller suspense novel
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- Antiquarian books; Antiquarian English Literature;
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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