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Standard, Mary Newton.
Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
Richmond, Va., The Bell Book and Stationary Compay,
1909, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good Plus, A biographical story of Poe's life and works. Mary Newton Standard was a historian ad writer of Colonial Virginia. Poe had spent ten out of the eighteen years of his life in Richmond. Mary Newton Standard gives a graphic pen-picture of its culture and charm in 'The Dreamer': "Richmond was a fair and pleasant city in those days--the blight of the War Between the States had not changed the cheerful temper of its people. It was more of a large village than a town, with gracious homes standing comfortably apart, with wide verandahs overlooking sloping lawns and brilliant flower borders. Poe poem "to Helen" was written in virginia about Poe's boyhood friend Bobby Standard's beautiful Mother. Green cloth boards and spine, bright title panels to front board, gilt faded to spine, upper spine end mildly frayed, pencil Christmas incription to e.p. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo 375
(The Dreamer, First, Edition, Edgar, Allan, Poe, Biography, The Dreamer, Published, By, The Bell, Book, And Stationary, Company, Mary, Newton, Standard, Virginian, Historian, Edgar, Allan, Poe, First, Edition, Poetry) Cat No. 1865.
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Standard, Mary Newton.
Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
Richmond, Va., The Bell Book and Stationary Compay,
1909, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good Plus, A biographical story of Poe's life and works. Mary Newton Standard was a historian ad writer of Colonial Virginia. Poe had spent ten out of the eighteen years of his life in Richmond. Mary Newton Standard gives a graphic pen-picture of its culture and charm in 'The Dreamer': "Richmond was a fair and pleasant city in those days--the blight of the War Between the States had not changed the cheerful temper of its people. It was more of a large village than a town, with gracious homes standing comfortably apart, with wide verandahs overlooking sloping lawns and brilliant flower borders. Poe poem "to Helen" was written in virginia about Poe's boyhood friend Bobby Standard's beautiful Mother. Green cloth boards and spine, bright title panels to front board, gilt faded to spine, upper spine end mildly frayed, pencil Christmas incription to e.p. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo 375
(The Dreamer, First, Edition, Edgar, Allan, Poe, Biography, The Dreamer, Published, By, The Bell, Book, And Stationary, Company, Mary, Newton, Standard, Virginian, Historian, Edgar, Allan, Poe, First, Edition, Poetry) Cat No. 1865.
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Standard, Mary Newton.
Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
Richmond, Va., The Bell Book and Stationary Compay,
1909, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good Plus, A biographical story of Poe's life and works. Mary Newton Standard was a historian ad writer of Colonial Virginia. Poe had spent ten out of the eighteen years of his life in Richmond. Mary Newton Standard gives a graphic pen-picture of its culture and charm in 'The Dreamer': "Richmond was a fair and pleasant city in those days--the blight of the War Between the States had not changed the cheerful temper of its people. It was more of a large village than a town, with gracious homes standing comfortably apart, with wide verandahs overlooking sloping lawns and brilliant flower borders. Poe poem "to Helen" was written in virginia about Poe's boyhood friend Bobby Standard's beautiful Mother. Green cloth boards and spine, bright title panels to front board, gilt faded to spine, upper spine end mildly frayed, pencil Christmas incription to e.p. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo 375
(The Dreamer, First, Edition, Edgar, Allan, Poe, Biography, The Dreamer, Published, By, The Bell, Book, And Stationary, Company, Mary, Newton, Standard, Virginian, Historian, Edgar, Allan, Poe, First, Edition, Poetry) Cat No. 1865.
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Standard, Mary Newton.
Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
Richmond, Va., The Bell Book and Stationary Compay,
1909, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good Plus, A biographical story of Poe's life and works. Mary Newton Standard was a historian ad writer of Colonial Virginia. Poe had spent ten out of the eighteen years of his life in Richmond. Mary Newton Standard gives a graphic pen-picture of its culture and charm in 'The Dreamer': "Richmond was a fair and pleasant city in those days--the blight of the War Between the States had not changed the cheerful temper of its people. It was more of a large village than a town, with gracious homes standing comfortably apart, with wide verandahs overlooking sloping lawns and brilliant flower borders. Poe poem "to Helen" was written in virginia about Poe's boyhood friend Bobby Standard's beautiful Mother. Green cloth boards and spine, bright title panels to front board, gilt faded to spine, upper spine end mildly frayed, pencil Christmas incription to e.p. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo 375
(The Dreamer, First, Edition, Edgar, Allan, Poe, Biography, The Dreamer, Published, By, The Bell, Book, And Stationary, Company, Mary, Newton, Standard, Virginian, Historian, Edgar, Allan, Poe, First, Edition, Poetry) Cat No. 1865.
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55.00
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Standard, Mary Newton.
Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe
Richmond, Va., The Bell Book and Stationary Compay,
1909, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good Plus, A biographical story of Poe's life and works. Mary Newton Standard was a historian ad writer of Colonial Virginia. Poe had spent ten out of the eighteen years of his life in Richmond. Mary Newton Standard gives a graphic pen-picture of its culture and charm in 'The Dreamer': "Richmond was a fair and pleasant city in those days--the blight of the War Between the States had not changed the cheerful temper of its people. It was more of a large village than a town, with gracious homes standing comfortably apart, with wide verandahs overlooking sloping lawns and brilliant flower borders. Poe poem "to Helen" was written in virginia about Poe's boyhood friend Bobby Standard's beautiful Mother. Green cloth boards and spine, bright title panels to front board, gilt faded to spine, upper spine end mildly frayed, pencil Christmas incription to e.p. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo 375
(The Dreamer, First, Edition, Edgar, Allan, Poe, Biography, The Dreamer, Published, By, The Bell, Book, And Stationary, Company, Mary, Newton, Standard, Virginian, Historian, Edgar, Allan, Poe, First, Edition, Poetry) Cat No. 1865.
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