The Raven.

The first separate American edition of Poe's most famous poem, and likely the first separate edition overall, preceding the 1869 Glasgow edition (BAL 16216). Small octavo, original cloth, blue endpapers. Octavo, original colored pictorial wrappers printed in blue and gold. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Only four copies of this separate Demorest edition have been located in OCLC, at the Huntington, Yale University, Brown University, Emory University, all with their bindings unspecified. Though The Raven is here published separately, another issue has been noted at both the University of Virginia and the Free Library Company of Philadelphia, also published by Demorest, and collectively bound with two other poems. It is highly possible that both the separate edition offered here and the collective edition were published in the same year for two different classes of subscribers to Demorest's Monthly Magazine and Demorest's Monthly Young America. Copies were issued in both cloth and wrappers. Not in BAL or Heartman & Cranny. Rare.