EDGAR ALLAN POE LETTERS TILL NOW UNPUBLISHED In the Valentine Museum Richmond, Virginia. Introductory Essay and Commentary by Mary Newton Stanard.

Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915. First Edition, One of 1500 copies only offered for sale. Illustrated throughout with facsimiles of all the letters and 15 additional illustrations. Tall, royal 8vo., publisher's original black cloth over boards covered in a black and gilt decorated paper, the spine lettered in gilt. 327, [2] pp. A fine and bright copy with light abrasion to the edges of the boards, primarily from shelving. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED. 'Here in a book that is concerned with a packet of till now unpublished letters and the flood of new light they throw upon the character and career of the mysterious man, poet, thinker, writer of tales, essayist, whose readers, it seems, must know where he was and what he was doing and thinking every day in the forty years of his life. Never until now has been seen on a printed page a letter that passed between Edgar Allan Poe and the man who---when Poe was two years and eleven months old---became his father by adoption.'
'So much tradition has been handed down about Poe that he has become almost a legendary figure in American life. His schoolmates and playmates in Richmond, his classmates at the University of Virginia and at West Point, his friends---men and women---and, alas, his enemies have furnished a mass of recollections which biographers have sifted and sifted in attempts to find the real man, or have woven into romances. But in this book, his soul is bared.'