1848 1st/1st EDGAR ALLAN POE "Marginalia" GRAHAM'S 62pp w/Color Plates FINE

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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 **. E. A. Poe. ** 1st Printing ** of this installment of Edgar Allan Poe's Marginalia (more details below) appearing in the March 1848 issue of Graham's American Monthly Magazine (A publication at which Poe was a past editor). 62pp. Authentic 1st Printing, w/stab marks visible.In Excellent condition .Illustrated issue includes SUPERB 3 full-page plates (2 black and white, steel engraved; 1 hand-colored fashion, etc.), in-text illustrations , other literary work (including Bayard Taylor, etc. ), etc. Also w/ in-text illustrations (to an article on American game-birds, including the Passenger Pidgeon and the Shore Lark), 2-page musical score , etc.62 doubled-columned, illustrated pages, plates, etc. Fine (pls see detailed cond. details below).Scarce 1st/1st POE. Plus add'l great literary content!At auction...Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art.Embellished with Mezzotint and Steel Engravings, Music, etc.Graham R. Graham and Robert T. Conrad, Editors.Philadelphia, George R. Graham, 98 Chestnut Street.March 1848.About Graham's ...Graham's Magazine was a nineteenth-century periodical based in Philadelphia established by George Rex Graham and published from 1841 to 1858. The journal was founded after the merger of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and Atkinson's Casket in 1840. Publishing short stories, critical reviews, and music as well as information on fashion, Graham intended the journal to reach all audiences including both men and women. He offered the high payment of $5 per page, successfully attracting some of the best-known writers of the day. It also became known for its engravings and artwork. Graham's may have been the first magazine in the United States to copyright each issue. Edgar Allan Poe became the editor of Graham's in February 1841 and soon was publishing the harsh critical reviews for which he became known. It was also where he first published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", now recognized as the first detective story . After Poe left the journal, his successor was Rufus Wilmot Griswold, a man who bitterly disliked Poe. Graham's began rejecting Poe's submissions and passed up the chance to publish "The Raven". Graham left his magazine for a time in 1848 and it eventually ceased in 1858.About this work ... Marginalia. March 1848.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" (March 1848. First printing of this installment). This is the sixth and final of the installments to appear in Graham's , and the 12th of the full series. The remaining five installments appeared in The Southern Literary Messenger .) ABOUT THE AUTHOR ...On January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe's father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a prosperous tobacco exporter, sent Poe to the best boarding schools and later to the University of Virginia, where Poe excelled academically. After less than one year of school, however, he was forced to leave the university when Allan refused to pay Poe's gambling debts.In 1827, he moved to Boston and enlisted in the United States Army. His first collection of poems, Tamerlane, and Other Poems, was published that year. In 1829, he published a second collection entitled Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. Neither volume received significant critical or public attention. Following his Army service, Poe was admitted to the United States Military... read more

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