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New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1945. First Printing of the Trade Edition. (A signed limited edition of 800 copies was issued simultaneously). Octavo; [vi], 23pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a couple small, closed tears along edges and some general toning and smudging. Boards are square with rubbing at corners and some scuffs to cloth along spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Frost's comedic play set up as a final chapter to the Book of Job, published for his 70th birthday. This copy signed by Frost to a Dorothy Farra without inscription on front free endpaper. [CRANE A27.1].
Autograph Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, "A Preview for Nita and Doc from R.F., After a good Bread Loaf, 1946," fair copy of 8 poems stitched into a pamphlet by Frost, Robert - 1946
by Frost, Robert
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Autograph Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, "A Preview for Nita and Doc from R.F., After a good Bread Loaf, 1946," fair copy of 8 poems stitched into a pamphlet
by Frost, Robert
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1946. 5 8-1/2 x 11 inch leaves, folded, 16 pp. plus wrappers. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Side-stiched, fine, with custom green half-morocco slipcase and matching chemise. 5 8-1/2 x 11 inch leaves, folded, 16 pp. plus wrappers. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Impeccable fair copies of 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush (1947).
1) "To an Ancient"
2) "Something to Hope For": variant title ["Something for Hope" in published book]; line 12 starts "And in" (as in E38), rather than "And with" in book; line 15 has "noxious weed", rather than "wasteful weed" in book; line 17 stars "A cycle of say" (as in E38), rather than "A cycle we'll say" in book; line 21 ends in an exclamation point ("!"), but in a comma (",") in the book
3) "One Step Backward Taken"
4) "Why Wait for Science"
5) "But He Meant It": variant title, first published as such in the Atlantic Monthly (April, 1947) ["The Broken Drought" in book]
6) "The Courage to Be New": has a quatrain, listed here as a postscript, that is cut in the published book No one cavails at their killing / And being killed for speed. / Then why are we unwilling / They should do as much for creed? [The third line appears in E42, the fourth line appears in E38, with punctuation from E42])
7) "A Mood Apart"
8) "Bravado"
Inscribed for Reginald Lansing Cook (1903-1984) and his wife Lydia Juanita Cook. Cook led the Middlebury College department of American Literature, served as director of the Bread Loaf School of English from 1946 to 1964, and wrote Robert Frost: A Living Voice (1974), based on longtime journals of their encounters which he kept from the time of their first encounters in the mid-1920s until Frost's death in 1963. Crane A30, E38, E42
1) "To an Ancient"
2) "Something to Hope For": variant title ["Something for Hope" in published book]; line 12 starts "And in" (as in E38), rather than "And with" in book; line 15 has "noxious weed", rather than "wasteful weed" in book; line 17 stars "A cycle of say" (as in E38), rather than "A cycle we'll say" in book; line 21 ends in an exclamation point ("!"), but in a comma (",") in the book
3) "One Step Backward Taken"
4) "Why Wait for Science"
5) "But He Meant It": variant title, first published as such in the Atlantic Monthly (April, 1947) ["The Broken Drought" in book]
6) "The Courage to Be New": has a quatrain, listed here as a postscript, that is cut in the published book No one cavails at their killing / And being killed for speed. / Then why are we unwilling / They should do as much for creed? [The third line appears in E42, the fourth line appears in E38, with punctuation from E42])
7) "A Mood Apart"
8) "Bravado"
Inscribed for Reginald Lansing Cook (1903-1984) and his wife Lydia Juanita Cook. Cook led the Middlebury College department of American Literature, served as director of the Bread Loaf School of English from 1946 to 1964, and wrote Robert Frost: A Living Voice (1974), based on longtime journals of their encounters which he kept from the time of their first encounters in the mid-1920s until Frost's death in 1963. Crane A30, E38, E42
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- Format/Binding 5 8-1/2 x 11 inch leaves, folded, 16 pp. plus wrappers. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches
- Book Condition Used - Side-stiched, fine, with custom green half-morocco slipcase and matching chemise
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- Date Published 1946
- Keywords American | Poetry | Robert Frost
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A BOY'S WILL. First American edition. Signed and inscribed by Robert Frost.
by Frost, Robert
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New York: Henry Holt, 1915. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First American edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 63 pages. One of only 750 copies of the first state of the first American edition. Original blue fine linen cloth binding. Moderately shelfworn, with minor fraying to the spine extremities and minor browning/sunning to the spine; protected in fitted archival mylar. No dustjacket. White wove paper, with the endpapers of a heavier white wove paper, somewhat toned. Top edge trimmed, other edges uncut. With the typographical error "Aind" present and uncorrected in the last line on page 14. On page 62 line 16 the word "wich-hazel" remains uncorrected. Signed and inscribed on the front endpaper "For my friends Mr & Mrs M. E. Gates [signed] Robert Frost." The inner front hinge at the half-title page is weakened. Merrill Edwards Gates (1848-1922) became president of Amherst College in 1891. Frost first visited the…
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NEW HAMPSHIRE: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (SIGNED First Edition with Signed Photograph, Autograph Letter and Inscribed Woodcut Proof Laid-In)
by Robert Frost (Woodcuts by J.J. Lankes)
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New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First American Edition (Crane A6). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (113 pages, 4 full page woodcuts, including frontispiece, by Lankes). The collection that won Frost his first Pulitzer Prize, containing the poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Fire and Ice," among others. This is the First Trade Edition, without dust jacket, inscribed and SIGNED in ink on the front free endpaper: “For Thomas Jacob, the best wishes of his Western friend, Robert Frost. Amherst, February 1924.” The book is in very good condition, with light rubbing to the cloth. Laid-in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Frost to Thomas Jacob, dated December 27, 1924, in the original envelope, together with a small sepia snapshot photograph of Frost, inscribed and signed in ink on the verso: “For Thomas Jacob, from his friend in the United States, Robert Frost.” Also present is one of the original proofs for illustrator J.J. Lanke’s frontis woodcut, inscribed in pencil…
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