GRAHAM'S AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Vols. 28-29 (Jan.-Dec. 1846)
Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1846. 1st edition, 1st printing. Leather. 284p; 320p. Ex-library; REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in 1/4 brown cloth with tan cloth boards. Exterior faintly soiled. Stamps on edges and endpapers. No plates at beginning of October issue. Main pages foxed, but text otherwise unmarked, and binding tight. A good, sturdy reading copy. Item #325143
Bound volume of GRAHAM'S AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, a mid-19th century literary digest for which Edgar Allan Poe served as editor for a time. Volumes 28 and 29 in a single book, with issues spanning January through December 1846. Illustrated with numerous black and white engravings, including color fashion plates. This issue contains three installments of the column "Marginalia" by Edgar Allan Poe (dealing with the use of rhyme in poetry, "The Mysteries of Paris" translated by C.H. Town, and Fouque's "Thiodolf the Icelander"); a review of TYPEE by Herman Melville; installments of JACK TIER by James Fenimore Cooper (under the title THE ISLETS OF THE GULF: OR, ROSE BUDD); and a review of PICTURES FROM ITALY by Charles Dickens.
Price: $200.00