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Description

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in gilt with Indian pipe stem motif, top edge gilt. 230pp. with four page facsimile manuscript poem at the front and tissue-guarded title-page as noted by Myerson in some copies. Very Good with darkening to spine, light wear at spine ends and corners, slight lean to binding, minor wear and soiling to cloth and light wear to bottom edge. Contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper and pages lightly toned. One of 960 copies. Myerson A2.1a.

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.