Dickinson, Emily [Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd]

Letters of Emily Dickinson [Complete in Two Volumes]

Laid in to this volume is an outstanding hand-written letter by Russell S. Smith to a Miss Kesselring. Smith is returning the set of First Edition Letters of Emily Dickinson to Miss Kesselring, emphasizing their great utility in his Masters thesis at Brown in which he compiled an early bibliography of Dickinson's work. Though unpublished, Smith's bibliography was acknowledged and praised by Thomas H. Johnson in his introduction to the Harvard Belknap 1958 edition of The Letters of Emily Dickinson.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. First Edition, First Printing [BAL 4660, All Points Present]. Publisher's Green Buckram with Gilt Stamped Detailing and Indian Pipes. A Very Good Set Complete in Two Volumes. Books are generally rubbed to extremities with buckram fading to white along joints, to corners, crown, and tail. Volume two has an instance of noticable wear to spine and noticable wear to rear board at top. Boards are variously faded and spines have darkened. Text is unmarked. Several minor instances of thumbing/soiling throughout text block, There is evidence of minor dogearing to a few leaves across both volumes. First few leaves of front material of each volume are starting at gutters. Bindings are otherwise tight and square. Hardcover[s]. Small Octavo[s]. [xii], [1], 2-228pp. + [viii], [229], 230-454, Complete with Illustrations. Very Good. Item #748

Price: $1,500.00