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• Poe Book Sold At Auction For $662,000

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 488
  Book expert for auction house Christie’, Francis Wahlgren, described the book as “the black tulip of U.S. literature.”  Not bad for a book that was published without an author attribution!  Tamerlane and Other Poems , written by “ a Bostonian ,” is actually the first published book by Edgar Allan Poe.  ...
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• George Washington Letter, Poe Poem and McCarthy Typewriter Sell at Auction

  
  Exotic Excess — Authority: 142
  A letter by George Washington has sold for $3,218,500 at auction in New York City, setting a world record for a letter by America’s first president, according to Christie’s. Washington’s 1787 letter to nephew Bushrod Washington argues for the ratification of the newly drafted Constitution. The letter had ...
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• Edgar Allen Poe Overserved

  
  File 770 — Authority: 137
  Letters of Note recently featured a letter from Edgar Allen Poe to an editor apologizing for past drunken behavior and desperately asking a favor at the same time. You must have conceived a queer idea of me - but the simple truth is that Wallace would insist upon the juleps , and I knew not what I was either ...
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• Poe’s First Book Sold: $662,500!

  
  Right Celebrity — Authority: 146
  Edgar Allan Poe’s first book sold for a record $662,500! Yes, apparently a copy of the brilliant writer and author’s “Tamerlane and Other Poems” was sold at a remarkable selling price to an anonymous buyer. Find out more revealing details and see pictures and a video here. It is said that this ...
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• Rare Copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s first book sold for $662,500

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 148
  An 1827 first edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s book has sold for $662,500 at a New York auction. The copy of “Tamerlane and Other Poems” had been estimated to sell for between $500,000 and $700,000 at Christie’s. He did not attach his name to those books, which indicated their authorship was from “A ...
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• The Daily Habit: Culture

  
  The 115- Fear and Loathing in America: Random Babble from the Red-Eyed Counterculture — Authority: 141
  George Washington Letter Sets Auction Record http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091205/ap_en_bu/us_american_literature_auction
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• Edgar Allan Poes first book from 1827 sells for $662,500; record price for American literature

  
  GossipFeast — Authority: 162
  Edgar Allan Poes first book has sold for a record price, but the buyer is a mystery. read more
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• George Washington letter smashes auction record

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  A letter written by the first US President, George Washington, has sold at auction for $3.2m (£1.9m). The sale, at Christie’s in New York, was a record for a letter written by Washington. The four-page letter was written in 1787 to the president’s nephew, Bushrod Washington, and urges adoption of the ...
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• Cherishing these forever & always....

  
  Tulips Talking — Authority: 123
  And so will daughter who will inherit them or else...! "This is an original mixed media drawing on a page from a book of poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Enough said. Enjoy! Here is "Annabel" & "Dreams". Approximately 4 x 6.75 inches (10.5 x 17 cm) ink and colored pencil drawing on a page ...
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• Poe Book – New Auction Record

  
  Hellnotes — Authority: 136
  Edgar Allan Poes first book Tamerlane and Other Poems has sold at a Christies auction for $662,500, setting a new record for a work of American literature.
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• Edgar Allan Poes Tamerlane sets record at NY auction

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  A copy of Edgar Allan Poes first book fetched $662,500 at a Christies auction in New York, smashing the previous record price for American literature.
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• Paging Tom Clancy: Bring rare Edgar Allan Poe home

  
  Read Street — Authority: 500
  This afternoon, Christies will auction a rare first edition of Edgar Allan Poes first book, "Tamerlane," but dont hold your breath for a Baltimore buyer to claim it. The Baltimore Suns Chris Kaltenbach explored the possibility of a local buyer emerging, but the cash-strapped Enoch Pratt isnt likely to bid for the ...
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• ‘Black tulip of US literature’ expected to fetch record price at NY auction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Dec 4 (ANI): A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s first book “Tamerlane and Other Poems” is expected to be sold at a record price when it goes under the hammer today in New York.Christie’s, which is auctioning the book, expects to set a record price for American literature with the stained and frayed [...]
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• A Report from the Field

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 121
  December 4, 2009 Attleboro, Massachusetts   Attleboro Public Library recently wrapped up their Big Read project on the poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Here’s a report on their final event—in the words of Big Reader Victor Bonneville—for which the library partnered with a local middle school. (Photo ...
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• ROADSHOW AND TELL

  
  The Big Read Blog — Authority: 121
  December 2, 2009 Washington, DC In October, the Oak Park Public Library hosted a show by 22 local artists of visual art inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Here are just a few images from the show, which the library’s Debby Preiser dubbed “one of the most popular exhibits in the Oak Park Public Library Gallery in the ...
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• Short Takes

  
  KR Blog — Authority: 417
  A bookseller with a killer haircut receives Rhys “I think people are gradually starting to understand and accept the realness of unreal things ,” -Haruki Murakami Van Gogh’s letters ! In translation! Illustrated! How cool is that? Austen’s in the air: death by cow , “ moral compass ” or “ vicious ...
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• Edgar Allan Poe from Norway

  
  pulpetti — Authority: 122
  This book is probably not out in English, but its likely it will be, since its been getting lots of favourable reviews and the Finnish translation came out quickly, so the authors agents are doing their work very well. Nikolaj Frobenius (who scripted the original Insomnia ) is a Norwegian author and one of his ...
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• Edgar Allan Poe: An anniversary, a Web site, an exhibit and a novel—The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 646
  Edgar Allan Poe , perhaps destined to be my state’s most famous writer for the eons, died some 160 years ago on Oct. 7, 1849. Just ten mourners showed up for his burial in an unmarked grave . One of the planet’s biggest Poe-haters wrote a lie-filled obit and, get this, served as his literary executor. Poe ...
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• Edgar Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 673
  The provocatively entitled exhibit at the Library of Virginia features artifacts and first editions of Edgar Allan Poes works. It has been 200 years since his birth and 150 years after his death giving cause for remembering all things Poe. His work still stands as Americas first man to try and live off of the pen with ...
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• Gift List Suggestions - #3 - Horror

  
  Book News and Reviews — Authority: 112
  Here is the next on my list of gift, suggestions for the upcoming holidays. Horror For those friends and family members who like the thrill of fear crawling up their spines when they read: - Salem’s Lot or The Shining or really anything by Stephen King Salem’s Lot is a classic vampire novel (they ...
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