DICKINSON, Emily

Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson

      1935 1935 - FIRST EDITION. DICKINSON, Emily. Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1935. Octavo, original green cloth, paper spine label, top edge gilt, uncut, original glassine, original slipcase. $900. Limited first and only edition, number 157 of 525 copies printed, of these unpublished Dickinson poems, renowned for their distinctive artistry and sophistication, with frontispiece manuscript facsimile. These poems, edited by the poet's niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, and Alfred Leete Hampson, were discovered "during the exhaustive examination of the Dickinson family papers made obligatory by the increasing posthumous fame of the poet" (Foreword). Myerson A7.1a. BAL 4688. Bookplate of New York poet, author, and photographer James B. Gitlitz, whose work was featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Book fine, a bit of shallow chipping to rare glassine, mild toning to slipcase. A beautiful copy, extremely scarce with original glassine and slipcase. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]