• Publication: The Prose Romances of Edgar A. PoePublication Record # 289547
• Author: Edgar A. Poe
• Date: 1843-07-20
• Publisher: William H. Graham
• Price:
  $0.125^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 48
• Format:
  ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • Information primarily from the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.
  • "Price 12½ cents" on cover/title page.
  • Publication month and day are an estimate, based on July 19 and 20, 1843 newspaper advertisements. Publication dates itself only 1843.
  • Numbered "No. I" and described as "Uniform Serial Edition", but no further installments were published.
  • First page is numbered 9, apparently to accommodate insertion before it of title pages from subsequent installments, allowing the set to be bound as a book.
  • See the notes here and this OCR and cover scan.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar A. Poe]
• 40 • The Man That Was Used Up • (1840) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar A. Poe]