Poems

by Emily Dickinson. Second Series by Emily Dickinson

$11,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

”I’m nobody! Who are you?” FIRST EDITION, one of only 960 copies printed. A beautiful copy. When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, very few people knew of the existence of her poetry. After her death, however, her sister Lavinia discovered a box of manuscript poems by Dickinson and immediately recognized their value. Determined that the public should not be deprived of Dickinson’s poetry, Lavinia enlisted the help of

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