Poems by Edgar A. Poe: Second Edition

Issued in spring (probably April) 1831 by New York publisher Elam Bliss and printed by Henry Mason, the title page calls it 'Second Edition' even though it was actually Poe's third book of verse, following the anonymous 1827 Tamerlane and Other Poems and the 1829 Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (which did carry his name); bibliographers have never established why Poe numbered it 'Second' rather than 'Third.' Small duodecimo of pages [1]-124, more than twenty of them blank, issued in cloth recorded as olive-green or tan, with gray and black cloth copies also noted by bibliographers