Dickinson (Emily) Poems. Edited by two of her friends, Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W.Higginson; Poems... Second Series; Poems... Third Series, 3 vol., first editions, vol.1 upper hinge starting and first gathering sprung, minor finger-soiling to endpapers, original grey and white cloth, with waving line and lettering in gilt and floral design in silver, spine darkened, spine ends and corners bumped, rubbed, vol.2 with facsimile manuscript plate, ink ownership inscriptions to front endpaper, vol.2 & 3 in original grey cloth with lettering and floral design in gilt, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, near-fine copies otherwise, t.e.g., vol.3 with "Roberts Bros" to foot of spine, preserved in custom half morocco drop-back box, Boston, 1890-96.⁂ An excellent set of the first collected poems of Emily Dickinson, published in print runs of 480, 960 and 1,000 copies respectively. Fewer than 10 of Dickinson's poems were printed in her lifetime, this set was only published after the unceasing efforts of her friends.