[Rarebooks] For Sale: Emily Dickinson, Poems, 1890

[Norman Kane]

We are pleased to offer:

DICKINSON, EMILY.   POEMS. EDITED BY TWO OF HER FRIENDS MABEL LOOMIS 
TODD AND T. W. HIGGINSON.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.  First edition.  Myerson A1.1.a, 
binding B, (partly stamped in gold rather than silver.)  Original 
decorated 2-color cloth, top edge gilt.  The sheets of this first 
printing bulk 11/16ths of an inch rather than 9/16ths, as the  paper 
used was heavier than that of the later printing.
Spine faded to a lighter hue, lettering on spine faded, slight 
rubbing at extremities of spine, free end paper loosening. Name  of 
former owner (Mary Brayton Durfee of Fall River, Mass.), on end 
paper, and her bookplate laid in.  Earlier autograph note signed by 
Higginson tipped in requesting a classics catalog.  Some slight nicks 
in the margin of the Contents leaf. Higginson's Preface praises her 
"flashes of wholly original and profound insight . . . an 
extraordinary vividness ... yet often ... whimsical" and he likens 
her poetry  to Wm. Blake's.  One of the great books in American 
literature.  $4500.00



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