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THE BELLS ... Illustrated

by Darley, McCutcheon, Fredericks, Perkins, King, Riordan and Northam by Edgar Allan Poe

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1881 . Small quarto, illustrations by Darley, McCutcheon, Fredericks, Perkins, King, Riordan and Northam, publisher's full dark blue suede, titled in gold, all edges gilt. First printing of this edition. An early, but not the first separate printing of this poem. Issued in a bewildering number of binding styles from tied wrappers to faux crocodile leather, this suede binding is among

  • Printing: first
  • Binding: Wrappers

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