Emily Dickinson's Home, Letters of Edward Dickinson and His Family with Documentation and Comment

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955 Hard cover, 8vo in green cloth, titles in gold, in the original tan and green dust jacket, map endpapers, xvii, 600pp. Stated First Edition, with Harper Code D-E , (for April, 1955). Includes the fold-out map, facsimile correspondence.**CONDITION: Near Fine. Slight edge wear, top edge of boards, otherwise exterior is very clean. D/j is price clipped, lightly sunned to spine, with light edgewear at head and tail of same. Pages are clean and bright.** This is the fourth in a series of four works about Dickinson by the Author Millicent Todd Bingham, who sidestepped a scholarly career in geology and geography when presented with a trunk of literary off-cuts and other unpublished materials by her mother, Mabel Todd Loomis (1856-1932). Loomis, along with Newburyport's own Rev. Thomas W. Higginson, were the original editors of the famously reclusive poet's works to the world. Loomis's choices have been controversial, perhaps affected by her longterm affair with the poet's brother, and a friendship with Emily which, although near neighbors, was carried on almost exclusively via correspondence. For the student of the works of Emily Dickinson, this biography presents much interesting source material about her upbringing, including background on her father, family life and Emily Dickinson's early education. From the blurb: " Anything that Mrs. Bingham has to contribute concerning the morbid world of Emily Dickinson is important because, as the daughter of the late Mabel Loomis Todd, she is the last survivor who had direct contact with the appalling heritage of speculation, mystery, rage and litigation that fell due with Emily Dickinson's death and has continued almost to the present." (Robert Hillyer) OCLC 271347.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine /Very Good Plus.