Eureka (1848)

• Title page and contents

Copies annotated by Poe:

• Private collector, New York. (Poe's own copy, heavily annotated in his own hand.) The list of prior owners is as follows: 1. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); 2. Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815-1857), New York editor and Poe's literary executor (presumably sent to Griswold by Poe's aunt, Maria Clemm)  (sold by Griswold's son, William Griswold, at Bangs and Co. in NY on Apri 23, 1895 for $69); 3. Peirce (sold May 5, 1903 for $50); 4. John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Madison, New Jersey, president of Drew Theological Seminary (sold March 20, 1905 for $530); 5. Stephen H. Wakeman; 6. A. W. S. Rosenbach; 7. Mrs. George Blumenthal, Paris; 8. H. Bradley Martin; 9. Stephen Lowentheil, 19th Century Shop, Baltimore; 10. Private Collector, New York (purchased about 1993 for $120,000)

• J. K. Lilly Library, University of Indiana (Sarah H. Whitman's copy, with Poe's annotations, probably from September or October of 1848). The inscription reads: "To Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman from the most sincere of her friends, Edgar A. Poe." The list of prior owners is as follows: 1. Sarah Helen Whitman; 2. Miss Charlotte F. Dailey and Mrs. Henry R. Chace, Providence, RI (inherited from Mrs. Whitman); 3. Max Harzof, New York bookdealer (purchased from Miss Dailey and Mrs. Chace in 1930 for $20,000. Harzof offered the collection about August of 1930 to Owen D. Young for $65,000, but Young declined due to the effect of the Depression on his finances); 4. J. K. Lilly (Shipped to Lilly on September 10, 1930 for $50,000, paid in four installments, making the final payment on December 1, 1930); 5. Lilly Library (donated by Lilly in 1956)

• University of Texas (formerly from the collection of William H. Koester) (Whitty, Nelson, Mabbott) (Nelson auction, Nov. 22, 1915, sold for $32.50.)

• Alderman Library, University of Virginia  (Mary Osborn's copy, sent by Poe on July 15, 1848, with Poe's annotations)

• Bayard Taylor copy. (Current location unknown). (This copy is signed by Bayard Taylor.) The list of prior owners is as follows: 1. Bayard Taylor; 2. Charles B. Foote; 3. Stephen H. Wakeman; 4. John Fleming; 5. 19th Century Shop; 6. Unknown owner, private collector ? (purchased about 1993 for $7,500)

• George Lippard copy. (Currently in the Gimbel Collection, Philadelphia Free Public Library.) (This copy was offered for sale by Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach in 1947 for $785 (Item 477). It contains the following statement, in the hand of George Lippard, on the dedication page: "Presented to me by Poe, when we parted, and when I saw him last. G. L."  Although it is listed as a "presentation copy" in the catalogue, the book does not contain an inscription by Poe. Lippard was one of Poe's close friends, living in Philadelphia. He last saw Poe in 1849, a few months prior to Poe's death.)

• American Art Association Auction Catalogue, The Stephen H. Wakeman Collection of Books of Nineteenth Century American Writers, April 1924 (items 954 and 955).

• Blanck, Jacob, "Edgar Allan Poe," Bibliography of American Literature; volume 7: James Kirke Paulding to Frank Richard Stockton, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983, p. 122. (Volume 7 is edited and completed by Virginia L. Smyers and Michael Winship.) (This book is item 16153.)

• Heartman, Charles F and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1943, pp. 121-124. (Reprinted, Millwood, New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1977.)

• Nelson, Roland W., "Apparatus for a Definitve Edition of Eureka," Studies in the American Renaissance 1978, pp. 161-204.

• 19th Century Bookshop sale Catalogue, The Poe Catalogue, Baltimore, 1992, pp. 83-86. (Page 84 features a photograph of the final page of Eureka, heavily annotated in Poe's hand. The catalogue lists 5 copies of Eureka as items 206-210. Poe's own copy is listed for $125,000. The remaining copies are listed from $3,200 - 7,500.)

• Quoth the Raven: Selections from the Susan Jaffe Tane Edgar Allan Poe Collection, 1997, pp. 68-69. (Page 68 features a photograph of the final page of Eureka, heavily annotated in Poe's hand.)

• Randall, David A., The J. K. Lilly Collection of Edgar Allan Poe: An Account of Its Formation, Indiana: The Lilly Library, 1964, pp. 39-42. (These pages provide a history of Lilly's acquisition of the S. H. Whitman collection, including her copy of Eureka, inscribed and annotated by Poe.)

• Southeby Auction Catalogue, The Library of H. Bradley Martin: Highly Important American and Children's Literature, New York, January 30 and 31, 1990, item 2212.