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Boston: Roberts Brothers,, 1891. Hope is the thing with feathers First edition, first printing, deluxe issue, of the author's second book, published posthumously the year after her first collection, and scarce in such well-preserved condition. It includes "I'm nobody! Who are you?" and "Wild nights! Wild nights!". This copy is in Myerson's binding A, with Indian pipes in gilt on the front cover; the "ghost plant" was one of Dickinson's favourite flowers. Myerson notes three binding styles: this deluxe style priced at $1.50, the trade binding at $1.25, and a gift binding at $3.50. Octavo. Publisher's deluxe binding of green and white cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, edges gilt, white silk bookmarker. Housed in a green cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Four-page frontispiece facsimile of Dickinson's manuscript for "Renunciation". Light rubbing to spine ends, covers a little marked and foxed, gutter cracked after first gathering, but firm. A…