The Purloined Letter
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- First edition
- Ulysses bookshop, 1931
The first edition of The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe was published in London by Ulysses bookshop in 1931. We track 1 edition.
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- 121 on Open Library, 98 in English
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Who published the first edition of The Purloined Letter?
The first edition of The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe was published in London by Ulysses bookshop in 1931.
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