Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily DICKINSON and Her Family's Feuds.***

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint edn.FINE+/FINE+.Virtually as new,wrapped+ protected from day of signing.No owner inscrptn and no clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - these believed to be export issue/edn and usually precede the UK trade editon issues/distribution.Bright,crisp clean,matt,subject's related colour+sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped white ink letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate facsimile reproduction of subject's written verse,illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint edn,ixxviipp+4- 491pp [paginated] includes list of illustrations,personnae in order of appearance,Pts I-V comprising 17 chapters and 2 sections,16pp contemporary b/w biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp140/1 and pp323/3 respectively,sources,notes, acknowledgements,an index and an Index of First Lines.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,quotation page,contents list/table,b/w reproduction map (Amherst Village),double-page Dickinson family tree,a note on typography and punctuation,and Pts+sections separator pages. In 1882,Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd,a young Amherst faculty wife,setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family.The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century.Lyndall Gordon,an award-winning biographer,tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons and reveals Emily to be a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.Thanks to unprecedented use of letters,diaries,and legal documents,Gordon digs deep into the life and work of Emily Dickinson to reveal the secret behind the poet's insistent seclusion and presents a woman beyond her time who found love,spiritual sustenance,and immortality all on her own terms. An enthralling story of creative genius,filled with illicit passion and betrayal that will forever change the way we view one of America's most important literary figures.The first major biography of Dickinson in nearly ten years.From the author of acclaimed biographies of T. S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte,Virginia Woolf,Mary Wollstonecraft,and Henry James, she now turns to an ambitious and rewarding look at this magnificent poet. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!