1845 1st/1st EDGAR ALLAN POE "Marginalia" GODEY'S MAG. Engr. Plates THICK 50pp

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American writer, critic and editor Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery including "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Scarce ** 1st/1st **. Edgar Allan Poe. ** 1st Printing ** ANYWHERE of this long (3+ pages) essay by Edgar Allan Poe... entitled Marginalia (more details below) and "signed" by Poe ... appearing in the Sept. 1845 issue of Godey's Lady Book (a publication at which Poe had a storied history of publication). 1st/1st. 1845. With a rare 1st Printing anywhere of Poe's writing.Poe's reputation as a major American writer is unassailable. He invented the modern detective story, successfully transported the gothic tale across the Atlantic, and wrote classic dark poems like "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "The Bells." But, during Poe's lifetime, such high points were intermittent, hard-fought, and rarely financial successes. More often, Poe made his living by toiling at now-forgotten magazines like the Southern Literary Messenger, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, and Graham's Magazine. Illustrated issue includes full-page plates (black and white, steel engraved), in-text illustrations; musical score; other literary works.D etails on Poe's Contribution to this issue...1845 - September (vol. XXXI, no. 3). Godey's...Misc. - "Marginal Notes -- No. II" (pp. 120-123) (miscellaneous, first printing of this installment. This is the second of the installments to appear in Godey's , and the fourth of the full series. As with the prior installment, the sub-title reads, "A Sequel to the ' Marginalia ' of the 'Democratic Review'.") (signed as, "by Edgar A. Poe.")/In 1844, the godfather of the detective story, E.A. Poe , began a column for The Democratic Review titled Marginalia , collecting his fragmentary reflections on writing and celebrating the joy of conversing with literature in its margins. It ran for five years. From 1845 to 1849 Edgar Allan Poe titled some of his reflections and fragmentary material "Marginalia." "Marginalia" (Sept., 1845. First printing of this installment at auction here ).SCARCE. Sept. , 1845 issue of Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book (a publication at which Poe published one of his earliest short stories, in 1834). Approx. 50pp (with Poe's original work; see details, above). A t auction... Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book.[Mrs. Sarah H. Hales, Morton M'Michael and Louis A. Godey, Editors.Philadelphia, Louis A. Godey, Publisher's Hall].Sept., 1845. A bout Godey's... Godey's Lady's Book, American publication that, from 1830 to 1898, pioneered a format still employed by magazines devoted to women's issues.Louis A. Godey, a publisher and former newspaper editor, established his magazine in 1830 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the first six years of its existence, it included mainly articles clipped from British women's magazines and hand-coloured plates reproducing fashions of the day. Godey, wanting to provide more original content by American authors, bought the Boston Ladies' Magazine in January 1837 and invited its editor, Sarah Josepha Hale, to edit the revamped publication, called Godey's Lady's Book . Working effectively as collaborators for the next 40 years, Hale and Godey commissioned fiction, poetry, and essays almost exclusively from American writers, many of them women. Hale and Godey steered away from politics, religion, and social issues, focusing instead on women's domestic education from health to home to fashion. Edgar Allan Poe had one of his earliest short stories "The Visionary" (later renamed "The Assignation") printed in Godey's in 1834. He also published several other works in the magazine: "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (April 1844), "The Oblong Box" (September 1844), "Thou Art the Man" (November 1844), and "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846). Other contributors included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.A BOUT POE...In 1827, he moved to Boston and enl... read more

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