The Philadelphia dealer A. S. W. Rosenbach, the most celebrated rare-book buyer of his day, tells of auction-room duels, lucky finds and the collectors who would pay anything for a manuscript or first edition. One story follows a Poe manuscript of “Annabel Lee” that he bought and sold for ten times the price.
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