Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, third printing of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, July 1924 Little Brown. Third Printing with 1929 on copyright page.
Near Fine hardcover with clean, cloth boards with with a few spots on the back, clean page blocks, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and and one bumped corner. Gilt letters are very strong on both the front title and graphic and the spine. Top gilt is very strong, as well. Both front and rear hinges are strong and the binding is very strong. A blind stamp is on the bottom of the first free end paper. Both end papers have discolorations from something stored in the book. No other marks or inscriptions. Inside pages are strong, supple, clean and surprisingly bright.
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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