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Our ROBERT FROST Catalog contains 118 items ranging in price from $35 to $50,000. Included are approximately 75 SIGNED items of which approximately 20, like the one pictured above, contain lines of poetry, in some cases complete stanzas or poems, in the hand of Frost. Future catalogs will feature strong collections of 19th Century American Literature; individual author collections of Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Parker, etc; Illustrated 15th - 17th century books; and much more. You may also use our OUR FAST SEARCH ENGINE
| 015097 (FROST, ROBERT). "A GROUP OF POEMS" IN THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. AUGUST 1915. * Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Company August 1915.* First Edition.* This August issue is in beautiful condition with the original orange printed wrappers still maintaining their true color. Contains three poems by Frost: the first appearance of "Birches" and "The Road Not Taken" and the second appearance of "The Sound of Trees." Also printed here is "A New American Poet," an appreciation of Frost by Edward Garnett.* Fine and uncommon in this condition and as an individual issue. (Robert Frost, Ephemera, Literary Periodical, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry) |
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| 015081 FROST, ROBERT. AFORESAID. * New York: Henry Holt (1954).* First Edition.* Copy #600 of 650 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece. Published on 26 March 1954, coinciding with the poet's 80th birthday. A selection of verse by Frost, with his reminiscence, "The Prerequisites," for the preface. Includes all of his best-known poems. Crane A37. Spine sunned; light foxing to the frontispiece. Slipcase complete but foxed and stained.* Near Fine in a Good example of the original slipcase. (Robert Frost, Signed, Autographs, Limited, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry) |
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| 015095 (FROST, ROBERT). AMERICAN POETRY 1922. A MISCELLANY. * New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1922).* First Edition.* First Book Publication of five Frost poems, all but one of which would appear later in NEW HAMPSHIRE. Other contributors to this anthology includeEdna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, H. D., Vachel Lindsay, and Conrad Aiken. Mild sunning to spine, light edgewear. Small owner name on front endpaper.* Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. (Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, H. D., St. Vincent Millay, Conrad Aiken, Modern Firsts, Anthology, Modern Poetry) |
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| 015099 [FROST, ROBERT]. AUTOGRAPH GUEST BOOK SIGNED THREE TIMES BY FROST WITH FOUR LINES FROM HIS POEMS. * Autograph Guest Book (8" x 4-3/4") maintained 1908-1947 by Sara J. Oliphant and dated by her Christmas 1908 on the front endpaper. The book has been SIGNED three times by the poet in 1915, 1916, and 1925, with four lines from his poems: Mourning: "The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows"; A Servant to Servants: "The way out is through"; Ghost House: "The footpath down to the well is healed"; and Into My Own: "Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand." Two entries are dated in Littleton, New Hampshire and the other in Amherst, Massachusetts. All are dated and SIGNEDby Frost. There are many other entries by family and acquaintances of Ms. Oliphant. Frost was a long-time friend of Charles Oliphant, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Methuen, Massachusetts, and his family. In 1897, Rev. Oliphant, then head of the Methuen School Committee, wrote a letter of recommendation for Frost when he was a grammar school teacher there (Crane F7). Some corrosion to several pages not affecting Frost's entries; covers detached and very worn.* Covers poor, contents Very Good. (Robert Frost, Autograph Album, Manuscript Poetry, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, Signed) |
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| 010936 FROST, ROBERT. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. * South Shaftsbury, VT: 28 Sept. 1930.* On both sides of a 6-3/4" by 5" sheet of white paper to Theodore Fisher, Frost's only lecture agent. In full: "Dear Mr. Fisher: When you first wrotemy proposal for a tour in 1932 looked too far off to be taken seriously. So I gave up all idea of the boast for the time being and let myself in fora number of things that I don't see how I can get out of now. I'm not free till October 1932 and I suppose there would be no sense in looking for pleasure out there in the early winter. I should want to show my native state to my wife at it's [sic] best. [Frost was born in San Francisco.] I have made no engagements for October November December of 1932 nor January February March of 1933. But 1933 begins to sound too ridiculously far away again. I guess you had better give me up as unamenable. I'm sorry. It's toobad we can't get together on what we both would like. You see the trouble with me is I take engagements in lumps (like the course I'm giving at the New School of Social Research and like my three months a year at Amherst College) and these seem to take shape a good way ahead. Thanks just the same for your interest." SIGNED "Sincerely yours Robert Frost." Unpublishedand likely unique as we were unable to find any other letter to Fisher, though a letter mentioning Fisher to Louis Untermeyer dated almost exactly a year after this is in THE SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST. One sentence from that letter is revealing: "If I have to make a really western tour, someone will have to recommend a better agent than that man."* Fine and scarce. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Literary Firsts, Autographs, Modern Poetry, Rare, Signed, Letters) |
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| 012829 FROST, ROBERT. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED MATTED AND FRAMED WITH A PORTRAIT AND TWO BRASS PLAQUES. * A brief letter completely in Frost's hand (5-1/2" x 5-1/2") matted with a photograph reproduction portrait of Frost (7-1/2" x 9-1/2") and two small brass plaques, one a nameplate and the other with the famous five last lines of "The Road Not Taken," all in a handsome wood frame under glass with a total size of 21" x 17". The full text of the letter, addressed to a Mr. Vance, is: "The warmth of your letter gives me a real reason this time for complying with this sort of request. Anything more I can do, more or less important, to deserve your friendship please let me know." SIGNED "Sincerely yours Robert Frost."* Fine, beautiful presentation. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Literary Firsts, Autographs, Modern Poetry, Framed, Signed, Letters) |
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| 010947 FROST, ROBERT. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED: A TIME TO TALK. * On a 4-7/8" x 6-3/8" piece of heavy white paper is a fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the ten-line poem, "A Time To Talk," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the postscript "This is from Mountain Interval which you must see that you buy and read." The poem begins, "When a friend calls to me from the road." A fine example of a holograph poem by Frost.* Fine (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Inscribed, Signed, Modern Poetry, Rare, Manuscript Poem) |
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| 011292 FROST, ROBERT. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED: "WHAT FIFTY SAID". [@1926].* Fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a complete eight-line poem, not titled here, "What Fifty Said," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the dedication "For Richard [Hocking]" on a 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" piece of paper. In the bottom left corner in pencil Hocking has written "1926 - I think/R.H./'32": "When I was young my teachers were the old./I gave up fire for form till I was cold./I suffered like a metal beingcast./I went to school to age to learn the past./Now I am old my teachers are the young./What can't be molded must be cracked and sprung./I strain atlessons fit to start a suture./I go to school to youth to learn the future." Crease marks from being folded in fours. Glue stains on verso along the perimeter only slightly visible on the recto.* Very Good (Modern Firsts, Robert Frost, Inscribed, Signed, Modern Poetry, Rare, Manuscript Poem) |
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| 012451 FROST, ROBERT. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED: "A NEARLY NEXT TO NAUGHT SONG". [@1957].* Fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a complete poem of 29 lines titled "A Nearly Next to Naught Song," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion with the dedication "For Richard Hocking/once the author's pupil for/a lesson or two at Shady Hill/or rather on the porch on/Irving Street" on a 6-1/8" x 7-3/4" piece of paper. In the upper right corner in pencil Hocking has written "1957." The text is the poem published as "A Never Naught Song" in the 1962 volume IN THE CLEARING. In this version Frost has eliminated two lines--"Out of coming-in/Into having been!"--and made various other changes in words and punctuation. The Houghton Library at Harvard has a Frost notebook, undated, containing this poem titled as "A Next to Nearly Naught Song." It is one of two poems by Frost along with "All Revelations" (1938) concerned with descriptions of the quantum nature of atoms.* Fine (Modern Firsts, Science, Robert Frost, Inscribed, Signed, Modern Poetry, Atomic Enegry, Rare, Manuscript Poem) |
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| 010908 FROST, ROBERT. AWAY!. * New York: Spiral Press 1958.* First Edition.* Decorated wraps. Crane B30: 9155 total copies printed, this one of 160 printed for Marguerite & Fred Melcher. Illustrated with wood engravings by Stefan Martin.* Touch of soiling to front cover, still Fine. (Robert Frost, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Christmas, Limited) |
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| 001915 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * London: David Nutt 1913.* First Edition.* The second issue, binding D in cream linen wrappers of Frost's first book, one of 716 copies sold by Dunster House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of a total of 1000 copies printed. This is one of 686 with "Printed in Great Britain" rubber-stamped on the copyright page. Crane A2. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Frost on the half title page: "Fred/from/Robert/Amherst May 1935." Books inscribed by Frost and signed with just his first name are quite scarce and obviously intended for people he knew fairly well. We speculate that this is inscribed to Frederic Melcher, a bookseller and longtime co-editor of PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY who befriended Frost. A New Englander by birth, Melcher successfully campaigned to promote the sale of both this book and Frost's second book, NORTH OF BOSTON. In 1921 he established the John Newbery Medal and in 1937 the Caldecott Medal, both awarded for children's literature. In later years he assisted Frost's daughters in a number of ways including help with their bookstore in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Recenty, a previously unpublished poem by Frost was discovered inscribed in a book to Melcher.* Very minor soiling. About Fine (Signed, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Literary Firsts, First Book, Modern Poetry, Inscribed, Modern Firsts, Association) |
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| 008467 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * London: David Nutt 1913.* First Edition.* The second issue, binding D of Frost's first book, one of 716 copies sold by Dunster House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of a total of 1000 copies printed. This is one of 686 with "Printed in Great Britain" rubber-stamped on the copyright page. Crane A2.* Cream linen-paper wrappers a tad darkened. Near Fine (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Literary Firsts, First Book, Modern Poetry) |
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| 010948 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * New York: Henry Holt 1915.* First Edition.* Crane A2.1. 750 copies. First state. The British edition printed by Nutt preceded this printing, but most copies were not released for several yearsafter publication. This copy with some exceptional and fragile ephemera including an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from William Dean Howells, with the envelope addressed and also SIGNED by Howells, to Henry Meigs dated Dec. 1915. In full: "Mr. Frost's letter is like his poetry and of the same gentle impulse. I thank you for letting me see it. Frost will go farther yet in his work." A pencil copy of Frost's letter to Meigs, presumably by him is included; it may well be the only surviving copy of the letter and though difficult to read does support Howells's assertion. Also present arepages 214-224 only of the August 1915 issue of THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY with Edward Garnett's important essay "A New American Poet" as well as a group of Frost's poems, the pages Frost would later refer to as his "American Send-off." Also, two TYPED LETTERS INITIALED and one envelope from Frost's American publisher Henry Holt & Company to Meigs dated 1915 and 1916 about Frost. In part, the earlier letter: "If we publish anything further by Mr. Frost...." The 1916 letter: "Mrs. Frost, who was with him, said the apples came and were all 'Frost-bitten' much to the delight of their children." Two 1915 newspaper clippings including a review and a poem Meigs convinced an Indianapolis paper to print. Meigs signature on endpaper and pencil notes throughout. Occasional offsetting. Dustwrapper spine rubbed, chipped.* Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with noted ephemera. Rare! (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, First Book, Modern Poetry, W. D. Howells, Association, Rare) |
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| 015034 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * New York: Henry Holt and Company (1934).* First Edition.* Crane A2.2. The Second American Edition of Frost's first book, designated "First 1934 Edition" on the copyright page. The book was redesigned and thetext completely reset, with a woodcut by Thomas Nason added and a few minorchanges by Frost made from the original edition. This copy SIGNED by the author and INSCRIBED for Carl William Hall on the title page with the penultimate line from "Mowing" in Frost's hand: "The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows."* Near Fine in dustwrapper with a small chip at the head of spine. (Robert Frost, Signed, Autographs, First Book, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry) |
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| 015036 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * New York: Henry Holt and Company (1934).* First Edition.* Crane A2.2. The Second American Edition of Frost's first book, designated "First 1934 Edition" on the copyright page. The book was redesigned and thetext completely reset, with a woodcut by Thomas Nason added and a few minorchanges by Frost made from the original edition. This copy SIGNED by the author and INSCRIBED for Don Smith on the front endpaper with the last stanza of a poem in the book, "The Vantage Point," titled here by Frost as "People in the Distant Village and Graveyard," in Frost's hand: "And if by noon I have to [sic] much of these I have but to turn on my arm and lo The sun-burned hillside sets my face aglow My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze I smell the earth I smell the bruisd plant I look into the crater of the ant." Most of paper on front hinge is split, but the cover is very tight and the webbing intact.* Near Fine in a dustwrapper with small chips at the spine tips. (Robert Frost, Signed, Autographs, First Book, Manuscript Poetry, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry) |
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| 015037 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * New York: Henry Holt and Company (1934).* First Edition.* Crane A2.2. The Second American Edition of Frost's first book, designated "First 1934 Edition" on the copyright page. The book was redesigned and thetext completely reset, with a woodcut by Thomas Nason added and a few minorchanges by Frost made from the original edition. This copy SIGNED by the author and dated 1938 on the title page.* Near Fine in a near Very Good dustwrapper with several chips. (Robert Frost, Signed, Autographs, First Book, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry) |
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| 015074 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * New York: Henry Holt 1915.* First Edition.* Second State of Frost's first book with correct spelling on page 14.* Fine, lacking the dustwrapper, as customary. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, First Book, Modern Poetry) |
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| 015075 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * New York: Henry Holt 1915.* First Edition.* Second State of Frost's first book with correct spelling on page 14. Small owner name and address on front endpaper; tips of spine lightly worn with the gilt lettering on the spine faded but readable.* Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper, as customary. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, First Book, Modern Poetry) |
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| 015076 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * New York: Henry Holt 1915.* First Edition.* Second State of Frost's first book with correct spelling on page 14. This copy is SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper and dated June 1926. Frost has also written out the first stanza of the last poem in the book, "Reluctance": "Out through the fields and the woods/And over the walls I have wended/I have climbed the hills of view/And looked at the world and descended/I have come by the highway home/And lo it is ended." The tips of the spine are lightly worn with the gilt lettering on the spine faded but readable. Fine, early example of a Frost manuscript in a book.* Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper, as customary. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Signed, First Book, Modern Poetry, Manuscript Poetry) |
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| 015100 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL. * London: David Nutt 1913.* First Edition.* Original bronzed brown pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered on the front cover. Crane A2: First Issue, Binding A of Frost's first book. Less than 350 copies of the first issue in the first binding were issued, from a total edition of 1,000. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper:"To William Stockhausen/this a first of my first/Robert Frost/and pleased to meet it/again so fresh after all/these years/Dec 26 1960." In addition on the front endpaper is the pencil ownership signature of Henry James, Jr. with a 55 East 65th St. address. According to the SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET catalog of THE WILLIAM E. STOCKHAUSEN COLLECTION, 1974, "this copy is most certainly from the library of Henry James the novelist. The owner name is in the hand of his nephew Henry James but appears to be an identification of source. The nephew inherited a large part of the novelist's library on the author's death in 1916. He never used either Jr. or Henry James II but his uncle did use the latter. Since this is evidently not his own ownershipinscription it appears to be more than likely that he wrote it to identify those books which had come from his uncle's library." A copy of NORTH OF BOSTON also inscribed to Stockhausen had a similar ownership signature. This copy was last on the market in 1977, and a letter from the seller to the buyer is laid in. Housed in a cloth chemise and handsome brown morocco-backed cloth slipcase.* A spectacular copy with an exceptional association. (Modern Firsts, Rare, Robert Frost, Association Copy, First Book, Modern Poetry, Signed, Inscribed, Henry James) |
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| 015088 FROST, ROBERT. A BOY'S WILL AND MOUNTAIN INTERVAL. * New York: Collector's Reprints, Inc (1992).* Two facsimile volumes, each one of 2500 copies, A BOY'S WILL in a glassine dustwrapper and MOUNTAIN INTERVAL in a printed paper dustwrapper with both enclosed in a printed wraparound sheet. Also laid in is a small card printing "The Road Not Taken" and the prospectus for this series of facsimiles from The Library of American Poets.* Fine, as issued. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Literary Firsts, First Books, Modern Poetry, First Book, Facsimiles, Facsimile) |
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| 015079 FROST, ROBERT. A CABIN IN THE CLEARING. * (New York): (Spiral Press) (1951).* First Edition.* Printed wraps. Crane B23: 3750 total copies printed, this one of 475 with Frost's own imprint. Lengthily INSCRIBED but not signed by Frost on the page with the holiday imprint carrying over to the verso of that page and incorporating the printed greeting: "[printed text: At Christmas 1951 a new poem]/by an old pen/[printed text: comes to you with Holiday Greetings]/as if fresh from inside of the/Hill in old Boston/[printed text: from Robert Frost]/your old friend---/to ask you what you think/you're doing down there in/the unreality of Florida. He shall [crossed out] will/have to see you about it. He knows/they call it a cattle country/among other things. But I am [crossed out] he is incredulous. (Notice/how carefully not to say/gracefully the third person/is kept)." Alas we do not know to whom Frost inscribed this greeting, but he used the same phrase "by an old pen" in his inscription to Lawrance Thompson in the copy in the Clifton Waller Barrett collection at the University of Virginia. When inscribing Christmas greetings, Frost would often not sign his inscription, or at the most simply initial it.* About Fine (Robert Frost, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Inscribed, Signed, Christmas, Limited) |
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| 010905 FROST, ROBERT. CLOSED FOR GOOD. * New York: Spiral Press 1948.* First Edition.* Printed wraps. Crane B19: 2275 total copies printed, this one of 175 printed for Marguerite & Fred Melcher. This copy SIGNED by Frost on the greeting page and further INSCRIBED to Rita Halle Kleeman, author of biographies and a director of PEN, the only worldwide association of writers. Christmas greetings signed by Frost have become quite scarce, and when found are usually only initialled.* Fine (Robert Frost, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, Signed, Inscribed, Christmas, Limited, Association) |
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| 010928 FROST, ROBERT. COLLECTED POEMS. * New York: Random House 1930.* First Edition.* Linen cloth with beveled edges and a brown leather spine label. Crane A14. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize. Copy #44 of 1000 beautifully printed by the Spiral Press and SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Some foxing to the pastedowns and endpapers, typical for this title. Spine a little darkened, label intact. About an inch of the rear inside hinge shows evidence of worming with a handful of tiny pinholes on the rear joint the only outward sign.* Very Good or better, as issued without dustwrapper or slipcase. (Robert Frost, Signed, Autographs, Limited, Pulitzer Prize, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry) |
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| 010926 FROST, ROBERT. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST. * New York: Henry Holt and Company (1930).* First Edition.* First Trade Edition. Crane A14.1: one of 3870 copies printed from the plates of the Random House limited edition. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper "To Sidney/from Robert." An important association copy inscribed to Sidney Cox. The lifelong friendship between Frost and Cox began while Frost was teaching atthe New Hampshire State Normal School in the academic year 1911 - 1912, before the publication of Frost's first book. Cox described their friendship in his own book, A SWINGER OF BIRCHES: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FROST. Very minor fraying to the spine head.* Fine, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Inscribed, Signed, Modern Poetry, Association, Pulitzer Prize, Sidney Cox) |
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| 010927 FROST, ROBERT. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST WITH AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED. * New York: Henry Holt and Company (1930).* First Edition.* First Trade Edition. Crane A14.1: one of 3870 copies printed from the plates of the Random House limited edition. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize. Laid in on an unruled index card is a fair copy AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem, "A Time To Talk," completely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him at theconclusion with the dedication "For (looks like George but we don't think so) Bush." A comparison to the poem, first printed in MOUNTAIN INTERVAL andhere printed on page 156 reveals that Frost has added a line in the copy hehas made. After "Blade-end up and five feet tall," Frost has added "Like a sunflower stalk," which is not included in the printed poem. A fine and scarce example of an altered holograph poem by Frost.* Fine, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. (Modern Firsts, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Frost, Inscribed, Signed, Modern Poetry, Association, Rare, Manuscript Poem) |
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| 012439 FROST, ROBERT. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST WITH AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM. * New York: Halcyon House (1939).* First Edition.* Second Printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "For Margaret Stearns" in 1940 on the front endpaper with the entire twelve-line poem "Spring Pools" in FROST'S HOLOGRAPH, with one word changed from the original. SIGNED and dated by the poet at the top of the poem and SIGNED again and INSCRIBED at the end. With the owner's name on the front pastedown.* Mild sunning to cloth. Near Fine, no dustwrapper. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Literary Firsts, Manuscript Poetry, Modern Poetry, Rare, Signed, Inscribed) |
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| 015038 FROST, ROBERT. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST 1939. * New York: Henry Holt and Company (1939).* First Edition.* Crane A23: 3750 copies printed. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of Frost by Doris Ulmann. Frost's introduction, "The Figure a Poem Makes," is printed here for the first time. SIGNED by the author on the blank preliminary leaf endpaper. Mild darkening to the spine, as is often the case with this title.* Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. (Robert Frost, Signed, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, Collected Poems) |
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| 015039 FROST, ROBERT. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST 1939. * New York: Henry Holt and Company (1939).* First Edition.* Crane A23: 3750 copies printed. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of Frost by Doris Ulmann. Frost's introduction, "The Figure a Poem Makes," is printed here for the first time. SIGNED by the author on the blank preliminary leaf endpaper. Mild darkening to the spine, as is often the case with this title. Owner name on front endpaper.* Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. (Robert Frost, Signed, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, Collected Poems) |
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| 015067 FROST, ROBERT. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST WITH AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM. * New York: Halcyon House (1939).* First Edition.* First Printing of the Halcyon House edition, a near exact reproduction of the Holt edition published a month earlier but without the introduction. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "For Cornelius Weygandt" on the front endpaper with the final eight lines of the final poem in the book under the chapter AFTERTHOUGHT "A Missive Missal" in FROST'S HOLOGRAPH, here titled "From Twenty-five Thousand Years Ago--: "Far as we aim our signs to reach Far as we often make them reach There is an aeon limit set Beyond which they are doomed to miss. Two souls may be to [sic] widely met. That sad-with-distance river beach With mortal longing may beseech; It cannot speak as far as this." Frost has omitted what would have been the third line of this section, "Across the soul-from-soul abyss." Weygandt, an English scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, first met Frost in 1915. He is described by Frost anonymously in his poem "New Hampshire" as the man "Who comes from Philadelphia every year/With a great flock of chickens of rare breeds. Weygandt describes his friendship with Frost in THE WHITE HILLS (pages 231-254).* Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. (Modern Firsts, 20th C. Amer. Lit., Robert Frost, Literary Firsts, Manuscript Poetry, Modern Poetry, Rare, Signed, Inscribed) |
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