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Octavo, 230 pages. In Good condition. Dark grey spine with gilted lettering and designs. Boards have mild wear along the extremities, mild fraying along the fore corners and spine head edge, light bumping along the tail fore corners, stains on the front and rear covers, a dent on the rear cover, and moderate age-toning along the spine. Textblock has splitting to gutter from third front end-page to copyright page, stains through the front end-pages, stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, pencil marks on the front end-page, mild wear along the edges, moderate age-toning along the edges, stains along the edges, and gilting along the head edge. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 5. Cited by Myers, A 2.1.c, as a First Edition Third Printing, with gathering 13 unsigned. Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830 in Amherst, MA. Dickinson was a well-behaved young girl taking an early liking to music and the piano. Dickinson was greatly affected by the death of her second cousin, giving her a lifelong fear of death and dying. This fear is apparent in her writing and would lead to an adult life of seclusion, maintaining friendships through letter correspondences. Death would greatly affect Dickinson just before her own, the passing of friends and her young nephew Gilbert in 1884 caused Dickinson to quickly decline in health, dying in 1886. Only ten poems and a letter of Dickinson's were published in her lifetime, but after her sister Lavinia discovered Dickinson's collection of 1,800 poems, a first collection of them was published in 1890. After seeing the success of Dickinson's first series of poems, a second was published in 1891. Dickinson's poetry was heavily edited and altered until a 1955 collection of her poetry saw the first release of her unedited poetry. Dickinson's poetry has become widely regarded as classics of American literature and has remained heavily in print since the publication of the first series. 1388454. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.