Eureka: A Prose Poem

by Edgar Allan Poe

$17,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: George P. Putnam, 1848. First edition, first issue of the famous American author's take on physics and cosmology that preceded the Big Bang Theory by nearly a century. 143, 15, 1 pp. Bound in publisher's straight-grained black cloth stamped in blind and spine lettered in gilt with Eureka having no reviews at p. 2 of advertisements. Very Good with slight lean to binding, minor loss of cloth at crown and

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