Saturday, December 5, 2009

More news on one of our Favourites: Edgar Allan Poe


Under the hammer of Christie's auction rooms in New York was a rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book, which sold for a record $662,500.

It was the highest price ever paid for a 19th Century book of poetry, auctioneers said.

Only 12 copies of the 40-page volume Tamerlane and Other Poems, published in 1827, are known to exist.

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