DICKINSON EMILY Poems Poems Second Series Poems Third Seri

Sale 2247 - Lot 245

Price Realized: $ 7,800

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500

DICKINSON, EMILY. Poems * Poems Second Series * Poems Third Series. Together, 3 First Editions. Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson. 12mo, publisher's cloth with silver or gilt-stamped lettering and "Indian Pipes" floral motif on covers, Poems is a first printing, Myerson's Binding A, rebacked retaining most of original backstrip, with color and cloth restoration, some other mild soiling, front endpaper loose and with contemporary owner's signature, owner's label on pastedown; Second Series with large triangular excision to front endpaper; bookplates on pastedown including that of Charles Eliot Goodspeed (founder of Goodspeed's Bookshop, Boston), spine ends bumped with some wear; Third Series in BAL Binding 1with rubbed spine ends and tips; all in individual green cloth clamshell boxes with gilt-lettered leather spine labels. Myerson A 1.1.a for Poems; BAL 4655; 4656; 4661, respectively. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890; 1891; 1896

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

first editions of dickinson's celebrated first three books of poetry. Printed in runs of 500, 960, and 1000, respectively. Though seven of her poems were published in magazines during her lifetime, these posthumous volumes represent her first published collections of verse. The success of the first volume led to ten printings within the first year, urging the editors to plan the Second Series.The cover design of the metal-stamped Indian Pipes was taken from a painting that Mabel Loomis Todd had given to Dickinson in 1882 and which hung in the poet's bedroom, becoming her "preferred flower of life" and a hallmark of Dickenson publications to come.