{"id":2187,"date":"2009-12-11T00:38:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T07:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/12\/suck-on-this-reverend-rufus-griswold\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T04:44:26","slug":"suck-on-this-reverend-rufus-griswold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/11\/suck-on-this-reverend-rufus-griswold\/","title":{"rendered":"Suck On This, Reverend Rufus Griswold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_13926568\" target=\"_blank\">from the San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Poe&#8217;s first book goes for record $662,500<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; color: #555555; font-weight: bold\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site568\/2009\/1204\/20091204__poebook~1_GALLERY.JPG\" align=\"left\" height=\"320\" width=\"243\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/> NEW YORK \u2014 A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature.<\/p>\n<p>The copy of &#8220;Tamerlane and Other Poems&#8221; had been estimated to sell Friday for between $500,000 and $700,000 at Christie&#8217;s auction house in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-page collection of poems was published in 1827. Poe wrote the book shortly after moving to Boston to launch his literary career.<\/p>\n<p>No more than 40 or 50 copies of &#8220;Tamerlane&#8221; were printed, and only 12 remain.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"25\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_13926568\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at the SJ Merc<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the San Jose Mercury News Poe&#8217;s first book goes for record $662,500 Associated Press NEW YORK \u2014 A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature. The copy of &#8220;Tamerlane and Other Poems&#8221; had been estimated to sell Friday for between $500,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}