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Item Details
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| Author: |
Poe, Edgar [Allan] |
| Title: |
Histoires Extraordinaires |
| Place: |
Paris |
| Publisher: |
Michel Levy Freres |
| Date: |
1856 |
| Item # : |
165562 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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301 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 115 |
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| Description: |
| [iii]-xxxi, [1], 330, [1] pp. Translated by Charles Baudelaire. (12mo) 6¾x4¼, early black cloth. First Edition in French. |
| First edition of the first in the series of Baudelaire's famous translations of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's great influence in France (not the least part of which was on Baudelaire's own poetry) was heavily indebted to these translations. Comprises 13 stories by Poe, preceded by his biography. |
| Condition: |
| Cloth rubbed; pages dampstained, title-page a little loose and with outer edge chipped and repaired; leaf 5.1 with tissue repair, library inkstamp on title-page and last page, closed tear to contents leaf; good. |
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