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Lot 159
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500 -
700
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$375
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Lot Description
[DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886)]. “Success.” In: A Masque of Poets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878.
8vo. Original black decorated cloth gilt and stamped in red (some wear, some soiling, rear joint cracked; front hinge starting); black cloth folding case, red leather lettering-piece gilt to spine. Provenance: Charles Purrington (stamp).
FIRST EDITION, containing one of the only lifetime publications of the author. Also including works by Louisa May Alcott, Sidney Clopton Lanier, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, James Russell Lowell, Christina Georgina Rossetti, and Celia Thaxter.
Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL