Edgar Allan POE.
Eureka: a Prose Poem. New York, Geo. P. Putnam, 1848.
In-12 of 143, 16 pp. of advertisements : publisher's cold-stamped black percaline, modern slipcase.
First edition: copy of the first edition, limited to 500 copies.
Last book of Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849) and the crowning achievement of his work: "I have no desire to live, since I have written Eureka," he confessed three months before his death.
Beautiful copy preserved in the publisher's binding.
From the library of the English writer Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) in Brackenburn, with bookplate.
Spotting. Restorations to the spine of the binding.
