Glenn Burghardt wrote, "I have read that R.W. Griswold stated in the International monthly magazine, Oct. 1850, that Edgar Allan Poe's book "The Conchologist's First Book..." , 1840, is a copy, nearly verbatim, of the text-book of conchology by Captain Thomas Brown printed in Glasgow in 1833. Interesting, it also stated that this title holds the distinction of being the only work published by Poe that went to a second printing during his lifetime." Always steal from the best, that's what I say. I've seen the book--a small manual--and I don't think that anyone would recognize it as a work by Poe without seeing the title page. Andrew K. Rindsberg Geological Survey of Alabama