‘Ourself, behind ourself concealed, should startle most’
Poems … Second Series.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891.
Price: $6,000.00
About the item
First edition, first printing. Edited by … T.W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. 1 vols. 12mo. Three piece binding of white cloth boards with green cloth spine (Meyerson binding A), aeg. Soiling to boards including ink mark to rear cover, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to the ffep. Myerson 2.1.a (Binding A); BAL 4656.
Item #374137
One of the foundation stones of American literature. The second volume of the posthumous poems of Emily Dickinson, which followed quickly the demand that sent the first series through many unexpected printings. This series went through three printings in the first yearoff.
