Description
For sale: a Rare 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.
Fair to Good hardcover with clean, cloth boards heavy edge and corner wear and missing both spine ends. Gilt is mostly gone from the front title/graphic. Gilt from the spine is completely gone. Top gilt still present, and the other page blocks are clean. Both front and rear hinges are strong, but the binding is starting to loosen. Previous owner’s name city and date are on the FEP. 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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