Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover US edition, first printing of A Letter to the World: Poems for Young Readers by Emily Dickinson in a new archival wrap. First US Edition unstated and undated, 1978 Macmillan. First Printing stated. Introduction by Rumer Godden 66 pages.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with light underlining only in the 9 page introduction. No other marks, inscriptions or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is a first state in Near Fine condition with $3.95 price on the front flap and mild surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
Emily Dickinson was a very unusual woman. She spent most of her life in seclusion, seeing few people outside her own family, rarely going beyond the garden of her father’s house except to take the secret path to her brother’s house nearby. The only people with whom she apparently felt at ease were the children who came to play in that garden, to whom she sent gifts of gingerbread, lowered from her window in a basket.
Thin volume ships promptly with s.
