COLLECTED POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
by Dickinson, Emily
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0517415143
- ISBN 13
- 9780517415146
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Chatham River Press, 1983 The Chatham River Press edition of Dickinson's poems from the first collections of her poetry edited by Todd and Higginson, contemporaries of the poet, in the 1890s after her death in 1886. This edition appears to be a first thus.There is an "alphabet line" on the copyright page running h to a that may indicate a first printing. The paper-covered boards are decorated with a floral graphic design with a dark green binding and silver lettering on spine. Test edges are gilded and end papers decorated with same floral graphic disign as on covers. This copy shows no wear or tear. No creasing, no tears, margin notes or underlining. This is an excellent gift for a book lover.
Synopsis
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family of good standing within their Massachusetts community. She had fewer than a dozen poems published in her lifetime, though posthumously her sister found a cache of nearly eighteen hundred, all of which have now been published. Emily's style was broke with the common forms of poetry at the time, and foreshadowed what was to come. Her work was harshly criticized when first published, but she is now considered one of the American greats.
Reviews
On Oct 9 2007, Hazelwood_Booksellers said:
This Barnes & Noble publishing is a beautiful replicate of the original 1924 book titled, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: From all of America's renowned poets, Miss Dickinson is perhaps the most confounding of stories. Having attended Amherst and Mount Holyoke Seminary, she returned home to her father and thereafter seldom left the confines of her room. But the scope of her poetic verse was as vast as her one-room world was restrictive. Of nearly two-thousand verses, only seven were actually published in her lifetime, to little if any acclaim. As a lifelong recluse she wrote with a subdued fire and passion, combined with an oddly deep intellectual and emotional understanding of the human spirit and its relation to all surrounding it, given her limited venture into the real world around herself. Miss Dickinson died at the early age of fifty-five, but left a rich legacy of poetic literature that today vaults her to the lofty heights of being one of America's greatest poets. For the poetry lover this is a wonderful classic collectible.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006188
- Title
- COLLECTED POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
- Author
- Dickinson, Emily
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0517415143
- ISBN 13
- 9780517415146
- Publisher
- Chatham River Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- poetry, American poetry, 19th century poetry classic
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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