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Is a rare 1st Edgar Allan Poe book being sold at auction?

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Is a rare 1st Edgar Allan Poe book being sold at auction?

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OSTON — When a teenage Edgar Allan Poe moved to Boston to find work in 1827, he was eager to launch his literary career, re-establish his roots in the city of his birth and distance himself from his foster father in Richmond, Va. The result was his first book, “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” virtually unnoticed when published but now one of the world’s rarest and most sought-after texts. Experts at Christie’s auction house say it could sell for a record price for American literature. “This is known as the black tulip of U.S. literature,” said Francis Wahlgren, head of books and manuscripts at Christie’s in New York, which expects to get from $500,000 to $700,000 for the book on Friday. To the best of Wahlgren’s recollection, the record is $250,000 for a copy of “Tamerlane” sold at auction nearly two decades ago. No more than 40 or 50 copies of “Tamerlane” were printed, and only 12 remain. Poe’s name doesn’t even grace the cover of the 40-page book, which is credited to “a Bostonian.” The

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