Author: Ostrom, John Ward (editor); [Poe, Edgar Allan]
Title: The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe [Volume I only] with new foreword and supplementary chapter
Publication: New York: The Gordian Press 1966
Description: xxviii, 306 pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with black and gilt spine titling. A new copy noting some excess glue on the rear board from the manufacturing process This is Volume I ONLY. Fine. Cloth.
This edition reprints the original 1948 Harvard University Press edition, with additions. "The supplement of the 1966 edition included new material as well as combining material published in American Literature, XXIV (November 1952), pp. 358-366 and American Literature, XXIX (March 1957), pp. 79-86." This is volume I only.
"The most comprehensive printed collection of letters written by Poe is the 2-volume set of The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (third edition) originally edited by John Ward Ostrom, and revised, expanded and corrected by Burton R. Pollin and Jeffrey A. Savoye, published by Gordian Press in October 2008." (see our separate listings for this set).
(quote are from eapoe org, the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, describing the best scholarly edition available)
Seller ID: 29342
Subject: Biography/Autobiography, Literary Criticism