Author: (POE, Edgar Allan) Miss LESLIE (editor)
Title: William Wilson in the Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1840
Description: Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, (1839). First Edition. Hardcover. Original embossed black morocco with gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated title page and 7 (of 8) steel engravings with tissue guards by various artists. BAL 992 and 16130. The first appearance in print of this important story by Poe. Foxing to plates; text fairly clean; 1840 pencil ownership inscription on front endpaper. But for the missing plate, a close to Fine copy and uncommon as such .

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