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Little Brown & Company. Boston. 1929. 210 pages. First edition, third printing, stated. Printed in the same month as the first printing, March 1929. 1929 date printed on title page. Book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are sound. Green cloth decorated in gilt. Gilt page edges along top. Pages and endpapers are clean and bright. Rubbed gilt on backstrip. Minor soiling to panels. Rare DJ is present, with $2.50 price intact on flap. DJ shows staining and chipping along edges; DJ spine is missing and as a result the DJ is pieced together under a DJ protector, without DJ spine. A solid, attractive early copy of this classic edition, and first appearance of more than 150 unpublished poems of Emily Dickinson. As such, Emily's sister, Lavinia, kept these poems to herself; unpublished. Only after Lavinia's passing, the poems were then discovered by Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Emily's niece, and last surviving relative, who then published them. First edition, third printing from March 1929. VG+/P.

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