The Gift
Subtitle: A Christmas and New Year's present for 1842
Publisher: Carey & Hart
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Leather bound
Number of pages: 322
Copyright date: 1841
Subjects: Gift books
Notes: Heartman and Canny, Poe, p. 214; Thompson, American literary annuals and gift books, p. 126.

Contains the first printing of Edgar Allan Poe's "Eleonora."
Table of contents: title: Autumn and the garden / Mrs. Sigourney --; title: Isabel's bridal / Emma C. Embury --; title: Dulcinea / Miss Leslie --; title: Snow / Mrs. Sigourney --; title: The bee-tree / Author of 'A new home' --; title: The broken-hearted / Mary E. Lee --; title: The wife's appeal / Miss C.H. Waterman --; title: Glimpses of heaven / Mary Ann Browne --; title: Nora / Mrs. Sigourney --; title: The recluse of the Blue Mountain / Mrs. Ellet --; title: The tough yarn / Seba Smith --; title: Lines on the death of two promising children / Mary E. Lee --; title: The love of tears / G.W. Patten --; title: Biographical studies upon contemporary singers --; title: Prayer on Bunker's Hill / Mrs. Sigourney --; title: The gipsy's chaunt / Charles West Thomson --; title: Eleanora / Edgar A. Poe --; title: A wreath of riddles / Mrs. F.S. Osgood --; title: Prayer for the bride at sea / G.W. Patten --; title: The village church / Mrs. Sigourney --; title: Early death / Miss M. Miles --; title: The people that did not take boarders / Miss Leslie --; title: Address to nature / Miss C.H. Waterman --; title: The sled / Charles West Thomson --; title: The French heroine / Catherine E. Beecher --; title: Stanzas / Park Benjamin --; title: To-morrow / Miss A.M.F. Buchanan --; title: Angel help / Charles West Thomson --; title: The raffle / John Frost --; title: 'Murder will out' / W.G. Simms --; title: Portia / W.J. Walter --; title: The doom of Moniac / G.W. Patten --; title: The appeal of Maria Theresa / Lucy Hooper --; title: Commencement day / Mary E. Lee --; title: Field of wheat / Miss H.F. Gould --; title: The cottage where we dwell / Mrs. F.S. Osgood.