Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Bookshelf - Edgar Allan Poe the Man (Phillips, 1926)

With special reference to Edwin T. Stiger, The University Press, Cambridge, Mass.; James H. Whitty, Richmond, Va.; William J. McClellan and General Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, Md.; and Provost R. M. Hogg, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland; also a dear and only brother, Thomas Wright Phillips, Senior, Los Angeles, Cal., whose financial ability, integrity, and beauty of character have honored every relationship of life with which he has come in touch, including the making possible by his sister this memorial tribute to
Edgar Allan Poe — The Man.

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[page iv, unnumbered:]

EDGAR ALLAN POE — THE MAN

VOLUME I

Edgar Allan Poe, we greet you!

Spirit-wise, here, do we meet you,

At this shrine to which the angels, long, long years ago,

Bore that soul of cloud and fire,

God-like grace and mad desire —

Earth's proud prince of melancholy — Edgar Allan Poe.

Hidden from our mortal vision.

May you, in your fields elysian,

In a realm of bliss and beauty, far beyond Death's shore,

Know that we, byt this fond token,

By these metalled words here spoken,

Your loved name in veneration hold forevermore.

The set of 2 volumes was issued in a box. Each volume had an identical dust-wrapper, except for the variation necessary to designate the volume as I or II. The back of the dust-wrapper lists 11 “IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHIES” published by John C. Winston Company, which lists only Philadelphia as the city of incorporation. The inner flaps of the dust-wrappers are blank. The front of the dust-wrapper has a small photograph of Poe's head, cut from the Whitman daguerreotype of Poe. It is surrounded by the following (rather boastful and self-serving) text:

EDGAR ALLAN POE — THE MAN

BY

MARY E. PHILLIPS

With a Foreword by

JAMES H. WHITTY

referred to by the New York Times as “the greatest living authority on Poe”

The stigma which has been attached to America's greatest literary genius is here removed. Since Poe's death, seventy-seven years ago, a sympathetic America has had to accept statements of his indulgences.

Now the Truth is Known

It seems almost incredible that a work should now appear which contains sixty-five per cent new material. Yet this new, monumental work, years in the making, is a defense, substantiated by conclusive evidence, of him whose “imperishable fame is in all lands.”

A Standard, Final Biography

This publication, the only complete, illustrated life of Poe, is a definitive biography, intended for the librarian, the student, and the general reader of literature — all who would have revealed in a permanent biography the true story of Poe – America's pre-eminent writer, but withal a man of mystery.

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Notes:

The text for this electronic version of this book was taken from an original printed form, revised for XHTML/CSS and to follow our own formatting preferences. Pagination of the original edition has been included.

Miss Mary Elizabeth Phillips (1857-1945) began her biography on Poe with a “Poe pilgrmage” through Baltimore and Richmond in October 1914, having just completed her one-volume biography of James Fenimore Cooper (published in 1913 and copyrighted in 1912).

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[S:0 - EAPTM, 1926)] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Bookshelf - The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (Phillips, 1926) - Title page and contents (vol. 01)

Edgar Allan Poe the Man (1926), volume 1, title page and table of contents

Title page:

Table of Contents

Table of Illustrations