Text: Anonymous, “[Notice of The Narrative of A. G. Pym],” Waldie's Select Circulating Library (Philadelphia, PA), Part II, no. 6, August 7, 1838, p. 3, col. 2

“The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket, comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the south seas, in the month of June, 1827; with an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivors; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the British schooner Jane Guy; the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the Antarctic ocean; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the eighty-fourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south to which that distressing calamity gave rise.”