The book The Unpublishable Memoirs was written by author A S W Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach Here you can read free online of The Unpublishable Memoirs book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Unpublishable Memoirs a good or bad book?
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I'll give it to the Hooker Museum! Then we both can always enjoy it. " THE EVASIVE PAMPHLET HE was disappointed again! He sat alone in his office think ing of the auction sale of the day before. A copy of the rare first edition of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue, " the im mortal story of Edgar Allan Poe, was lost to him and his heirs for ever more. He had gone to the auction with the virtuous intention of buying it; when the shabby little pamphlet with its brown paper wrappings printed in Philad...el phia in 1843 was offered, the bidding was remarkably spirited. It was finally sold to a distinguished collector for thirty- eight hundred dollars. He had been the underbidder, but what chance had a poor devil of a bibliophile against the wealthy captains of industry? At sales of this "5 ii6 THE UNPUBLISHABLE MEMOIRS character the race is not to the swift, but to the rich ! Robert Hooker had once owned a copy of this precious volume. This made his disappointment the keener. It was a more interesting example than the one that had just been offered under the ham mer of the auctioneer, for it had been a presentation copy with a simple though beautiful inscription written in the deli cate handwriting of the poet upon the title-page: "To Virginia from E.
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