Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson. First Edition published, July 1924 Little Brown. First Printing with 1924 on both title and copyright pages.
Good hardcover with clean, cloth boards with the fabric pattern still present and a finger size discoloration on the back, mild spine tilt, frayed spine ends, mild edge wear and rubbed and rounded corners. Gilt letters are faded on the front title/graphic. Gilt from the sunned spine are all gone, but ghosts of the letters are still visible up close. Top gilt very strong, and the other page blocks are clean. Both front and rear hinges are split and being held together with acid-free document tape, but the binding is still strong. Two previous owner’s bookplates/labels are on the FEP, with one of the owner’s also writing her name on the bottom. No other marks or inscriptions. Inside pages are strong, supple, clean and lightly toned.
No dust jacket, as issued.
Very rare, very early collection of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson with an Introduction by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi. The first 1924 printing by Little, Brown, and Company of Boston, Massachusetts consists of only 2,000 copies. The volume has green diagonal-rib-grain cloth, with gold stamping on front and spine, no decoration on back and a top gilt. It also includes a sepia tone portrait of the poet. A second printing was released in 1926, followed by a third printing in 1929. Both of these retained the same copyright page, but included the later date on the title page. The collection includes 593 of Dickinson’s poems, grouped in five units: Part Life Part Nature Part Love Part Time and Eternity Part The Single Hound.
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