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    The Conchologist's First Book (sometimes subtitled with Or, A System of Testaceous Malacology) is an illustrated textbook on conchology issued in 1839...
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    stylometry The Conchologist's First Book (1839) – A textbook on sea shells produced by Poe as a condensed version of a textbook by Thomas Wyatt The Light-House...
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    Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (category Child marriage in the United States)
    Clemm; August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) was the wife of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia...
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    work Poe translated in The Conchologist's First Book. Poe originally offered "The Oblong Box" to Nathaniel Parker Willis for the New Mirror, but Willis...
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  • his name to The Conchologist's First Book ten years later. Wikisource has original text related to this article: To M—— Poe toyed with the working title...
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  • His essay "Poe's Greatest Hit" analyzes the controversial conchology textbook The Conchologist's First Book (1839), edited by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's...
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    make him money, notably his controversial role as editor of The Conchologist's First Book in April 1839. He also wrote a short series called "Literary...
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    Conchology (redirect from Conchologist)
    Australian conchologist working as curator of shells at the Australian Museum, authored Australian Shells. This was the first book to catalogue the majority...
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    Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Baltimore)
    entered into the American Library Association's United For Libraries Literary Landmarks Register. It was the first historical site in the State of Maryland...
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  • Texas Conchologist 18(1): 2–4. [Anonymous] (14 March 1985). Publications received. The Festivus 17(3): 36. Hertz, C.M. (13 September 1990). Book news:...
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