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POE, EDGAR ALLAN. The Raven and Other Poems. New York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. Small 8vo, original printed tan wrappers, neat one-inch split in front outer joint at heel of spine skilfully repaired, black morocco pull-off case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (in wrappers, with the New York imprint, and bound without Tales ), 12 pages of publisher's adviertisements at end. BAL 16147; Heartman & Canny, pp. 97-108; Grolier English 16; Grolier American 56 (this copy exhibited). IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION AND ARGUABLY THE FINEST KNOWN COPY of "the most important volume of poetry that had been issued up until that time in America" (Hervey Allen, Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe , New York, 1926, vol. 2, p. 667). The Raven and Other Poems was published in November 1845 in an edition of some 750 copies; it was dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and contains 30 poems, including "The Raven," "Eulalia," "Tamerlane," "Al Aaraff," and "To Helen," etc. The title poem was first printed in the American Review for January 1845; it ("The Raven") "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 it] gave him fame as a poet such as no other American has received" (John W. Robertson A Bibliography of the Writings of...Poe , San Francisco, 1934, vol. 2, pp. 224-225). Provenance : Rev. Walters, of York, Pa. (according to Seven Gables Bookshop); H. Bradley Martin bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 January 1990, lot 2207).