The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894-1895.
The Stedman/Woodberry edition, #72 of 250 sets in the large paper edition. Complete in ten volumes. Bound in publisher's full vellum with beautiful, elaborate gilt stamping with an Arts and Crafts-style floral design. Illustrations printed on thin India paper. Does not contain extra portfolios; that is standard for the large paper edition, although one copy is noted to have had them by The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. Very Good+ with bowing to boards (typical for vellum), spine occasionally darkened (especially Vol. VII) and a little dulled, offsetting to endpapers. A little bubbling to vellum at head of Vol. I. Prelims of IX stained. Front board of Vol V has a line of rubbing. Early 20th century Poe-related ephemera laid in: a filled-out certificate that the former owner was a sustaining member of the Edgar Allan Poe shrine (dated 1933), a card from Poe Cottage in the Bronx, and three 1920s-1930s photo postcards from the Edgar Alan Poe shrine in an envelope. A rare, lovely, illustrated set of the American author's works.
Price: $3,000.00