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...choice items in the exhibition is an inscribed first edition of Poe's "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque." Poe's poverty was such that it prevented his giving away many of his books, and these two volumes are among the few known copies presented by him to other people. Bound specially for the purpose, they are inscribed "For Miss Anna and Miss Bessie Pedder, from their most sincere friend, the Author...
...Baudelaire, the tormented Catholic Satanist, sometimes achieved in poetry grandeur that: was Wagnerian. In French literature his niche will eventually be tha of his kinspirit Poe in English. Once Baudelaire wrote "Yesterday I felt the wing of imbecility brush me." It was also perhaps the tip of the wing of greatness...
...among scholars and general readers. The new project at Duke enters upon a fertile and comparatively little worked field. A journal, devoted solely to research in American letters can easily find its scope of service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed as a distinct addition. With such academic recognition for the history of native writing as a start, a further...
Probably the most valuable book in the Widener collection is a copy of Poe's "Grotesque and Arabesque" printed in 1840. This book contains the author's greeting to the person to whom the book was presented. It is believed to be the only volume of his writings that Poe ever presented to anyone, and would probably bring one of the highest prices ever paid for a book if put up for public sale...
...bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope's Essay on Man, $29,000; Edgar Allan Poe's letter to Mrs. B., $19,500; Swift's Gulliver's Travels, $17,000. Let no brisk, efficient young housewife entirely disregard a grandparent's plea not to throw away old books. In Manhattan last week it was discovered that a pile of old books hastily sold...