POE, Edgar Allan.

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Tales; [and] The Raven and Other Poems. First editions of Poe's landmark collections of short stories and poems, both published in 1845, here bound together with the half-titles present. Tales is one of 1,500 copies of the first printing, with the New York imprint; The Raven is one of 750 copies.Tales collects some of Poe's most significant stories, among them early examples of science fiction avant la lettre. The book is also "the first important book of detective fiction, the cornerstone of cornerstones in any readers' or collectors' guide, the highest of all highspots: The 1845 edition includes for the first time in book form all three Dupin stories - 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget', and 'The Purloined Letter'. 'The Gold Bug' is also included" (Queen's Quorum).Dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Raven and Other Poems was "the most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time in America" (Allen, vol. 2, p. 667). It "made Poe's name known both in America and England, and brought him an immortality that by no other means could he have attained... [and] gave him fame as a poet such as no other American has received" (Robertson, vol. 2, pp. 224-5). As well as the title poem, it includes "Eulalia", "Tamerlane", "Al Aaraff", and "To Helen".

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