Search Results: emily dickinson by pollitt josephine

Harper & Brothers, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Part of American critic and poet William H. Matchett's personal library, with his name on the front endpaper and his notes and marginalia scattered throughout. First Edtion. A Good copy. No dustjacket. Book has shelfwear, a cocked spine, soiling to covers and edges of text block, toning to pages, and aforementioned name and notes. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.

Cooper Square Pub, 1930T. hardcover. Good. 1.5000 in x 9.5000 in x 6.5000 in. EX LIBRARY BOOK

Cooper Square Publishers, 1985-12. Hardcover. Good.

(DICKINSON, EMILY). POLLITT, Josephine. Emily Dickinson. The Human Background of Her Poetry. Orig. cloth-backed boards. Illustrated. N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First edition. Scarce. A fine copy.

Harper & Brothers. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (American Poets, Biography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 1-350, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over grey paper boards with a paper label printed in black and green on the front board, one on the spine as well; grey topstain. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Emily Dickinson and with twenty-three plates. With a postcard from an Indiana bookseller to a young female reader who wanted to know about the price of the book laid in (the bookseller, from Portland, Maine, has left a stamp on the rear free endpaper). Pollitt's biography of Emily Dickinson tells a story of Dickinson's love for the husband of Helen Hunt Jackson, a Lieutenant Hunt. Pollitt's biography also discusses Dickinson's childhood and education, attempting to explain her famous isolation from society. Dickinson's poems are sprinkled throughout the chapters. Top textblock toned, a tiny split to each hinge; jacket is price-clipped with notable edge wear and toning to its spine panel.