 Author Name: STANDARD, MARY NEWTON.
Title: DREAMER: A ROMANTIC RENDERING OF THE LIFE-STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good Plus
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Richmond, Va.: The Bell Book and Stationary Compay, 1909.
Seller ID: 1865
A biographical story of Poe's life and works. Mary Newton Standard was a historian and writer of Colonial Virginia. Poe had spent ten out of the eighteen years of his life in Richmond. Standard's an expressive rendering of Richmond's 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, sunning of spine, upper spine end mildly frayed, 1 inch thin line to lower spine, pencil Christmas incription to e.p. Red and black ink title page. Deckle page ends. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo 375pp. First Edition
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