Edgar Allan Poe
Subtitle: terror of the soul
By: by Isaac Gewirtz ; with an essay by Paul Auster and a Poe collector's memoir by Susan Jaffe Tain
Contributors: Auster, Paul, 1947-; Kiely, Declan; Tane, Susan Jaffe
Publisher: New York Public Library
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780871047915
Subjects: Portraits; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Influence; Literary style; American literature; Book collecting; Anecdotes; French literature; Gothic literature; History and criticism; Littérature américaine; Bibliophilie; Littérature française; Littérature gothique; Histoire et critique; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Preface by Isaac Gewirtz; checklist compiled by Declan Kiely and Isaac Gewirtz, the the Morgan Library & Museum exhibition's co-curators.

Book accompanied exhibition of the same title held at The Morgan Library & Museum, Oct. 4, 2013-Jan. 26, 2014.

Publication funded by the Judge and Mrs. Samuel D. Levy Memorial Publication Fund, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English an American Literature, The New York Public Library; and by Leonard L. Milberg.

Paul Auster's essay entitled "Going Home" derived from a spring 1982 lecture delivered at Seton Hall; contains enlarged facsimile of a notebook page from the original manuscript.

Lead funding for the exhibition provided by Karen H. Bechtel, Liz and Rod Berens, and Susan Jaffe Tane.

Book designed by BTD/Beth Tondreau Design (NYC).

Contains 54 color illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references.

Restricted access; request permission in holding division.

Issued in heavy card-stock wrappers, with reproduction of deguerreotype of Poe (Nov. 9, 1848) on front wrapper, and image of three copies of the first edition of Poe's Tamerlane on back.
Table of contents: title: Going home / Paul Auster; title: Edgar Allan Poe: terror of the soul / Isaac Gewirtz; title: A Poe collector's memoir / Susan Jaffe Tane; title: Checklist of the exhibition / Declan Kiely and Isaac Gewirtz.