Poe- Arthur Gordon Pym (1889)

Poe, Edgar Allen. Arthur Gordon Pym: A Romance. Illustrated by A. D> McCormick. New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, [n.d., 1889] pp. vi-, 265, frontispeice (with gaurd tissue), 7 illustrations, 1 p. adverts. Pages bright and crisp without foxing or blemish. Bright blue publisher’s cloth binding with gilt decoration with title and author on cover and spine. Endbands and corners minorly bumped. Minor discoloration to back cover. Rare 1880s edition of Poe’s only novel. About the WorkFirst published in 1838, Arthur Gordon Pym is Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel—an unsettling fusion of nautical adventure, gothic horror, and proto–science fiction. The narrative follows young Pym, a stowaway aboard the whaler Grampus, through mutiny, shipwreck, starvation, and cannibalism, before he is taken aboard the Jane Guy. Pym and his companion Dirk Peters push ever farther south, into strange and violent encounters, until the book ends abruptly in the icy mystery of the Antarctic. The tale, w