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The gift : a Christmas and New Year's present : MDCCCXLIII.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Sp-F 129
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gift books.
- American literature--19th century.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Gift books -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered pages-328 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Philadelphia] : C. Sherman, printer.
- Other Title:
- Gift, 1843
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, [1842]
- Notes:
- Added title page, engraved.
- "250 copies were issued on large paper ... Poe contributed 'The pit and the pendulum' to the volume, pp. 133-151, first printing."--Cf. Heartman & Canny.
- Cited in:
- Faxon, F. W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 307
- Heartman, C.F., & Canny, J.R. Bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, p. 69
- Thompson, R. Annuals, p. 126
- Contains:
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Pit and the pendulum.
- OCLC:
- 919315
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