8vo. 3pp. facsimile in the Second Series. (Some light toning, a few short tears not affecting text.) Original gray cloth gilt, top edge gilt (some light wear to extremities and light soiling).

FIRST EDITION, second issue with "1892" on title-page and no printing or edition statement. While Dickinson published 7 poems during her lifetime in magazines, the present works are her first published collections of poetry, which were edited by her close friends Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson. BAL 4656 (covers beveled, flyleaf at front, terminal flyleaf).

[With:] Poems by Emily Dickinson Edited by Two of Her Friends [First Series]. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. 8vo. (A few spots.) Original green cloth gilt, top edge gilt (some light rubbing, rear hinge a little loose; corner chipped on one leaf from rough opening).  Fifth edition.