Further Poems Of Emily Dickinson (First Printing In Rare First State Dj) Dickinson, Emily & Bianchi, Martha Dickinson; Hampson, Alfred Leete, Eds. First Edition,Poetry

Little Brown & Company. Boston. 1929. 208 pages. Title page contains the original 1929 publication date, and Published March 1929 on the copyright page, with no further printings noted. This is the first edition, first printing, housed in the highly sought after first issue DJ; without any review blurbs on the front. Later printing DJs contain review blurbs on the front (The Saturday Evening Post, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Nation.) $2.50 price intact on flap. 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. Minor light shelf-rubbing along edges. Gilt is bright on front panel, dull on backstrip under DJ. Vintage bookplate pasted in on front endpaper. Tiny, vintage Pilgrim Press bookstore sticker, of a Pilgrim's head, Boston, at base of front endpaper. Original brittle DJ shows open chipping. A very attractive first edition, first printing in the rare first state DJ, of Emily Dickinson's classic. This edition contains the first appearance of more than 150 unpublished poems of Emily Dickinson. As such, Emily's sister, Lavinia, kept these poems to herself; unpublished.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, first printing in the rare first state DJ.