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Description

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Meyerson binding "A" with textual variants, priority undetermined. Bound in publisher's ivory cloth over green cloth spine stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; facsimile manuscript leaves at front. Very Good with soiling and light toning to cloth; spine darkened with rubbing at ends; hairline split to top half half of rear joint with possible glue repair and slight fraying, corners worn to board. Contemporary former owner name on front free endpaper. A nice copy.

About Poems

An extensive collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry, presented in its original unaltered form as edited by Thomas H. Johnson.

Identifying the First Edition of Poems

Identify by checking the name of the editor, which should be Thomas H. Johnson, and verify it was published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 1955.