May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DICKINSON, EMILY. The Single Hound. Poems of a Lifetime. Edited and with an Introduction by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (her niece). 8vo, original cream boards backed in cream cloth stamped in black, moderate soiling, edges rubbed with some surface loss; custom green cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered spine label. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914

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first edition of this important collection of Dickinson's poetry, edited by her niece, and containing the first appearance of some of her classic poems including "There is a Solitude of Space." In the preface, Bianchi gives a personal biography of her aunt and attempts to correct misinformation about her reclusive personality. BAL 4669.