This lovely fiction, by one poet about another, is cast in the form of letters that Emily Dickinson might well have written in 1847 as a 17-year-old student at Miss Lyon's Academy, where her teachers and fellow students found her original, witty, lovable ways beyond them. "A startlingly good read".--Diane Wood Middlebrook, author of Anne Sexton: A Biography.
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This lovely fiction, by one poet about another, is cast in the form of letters that Emily Dickinson might well have written in 1847 as a 17-year-old student at Miss Lyon's Academy, where her teachers and fellow students found her original, witty, lovable ways beyond them. "A startlingly good read".--Diane Wood Middlebrook, author of Anne Sexton: A Biography.
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Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 225. 225 pp. Jacket plastic coating is peeling at the upper left corner of the back. Small closed tear (1/4") at upper right corner of jacket front. Front cover crimped at upper right corner and fore-edge (looks like a production error). "Not for resale" stamped on upper page edges, but no indication as to why that was done. A novel constructed from sixty-six imagined letters of Emily Dickinson.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Size: 5x0x8; Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 225 pages, maroon quarter cloth. A near fine clean sturdy hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine, clean, lightly rubbed dust jacket, with original price present.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, page edges have light soiling, dj edges have some curling/creasing, previous owners sticker on first page, some light soiling to page edges.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0395788404. About new book, unread with a slight relaxing of the glue at title page and one interior page corner creased; dj rubbed.; Author's first novel.