[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost's Collected Poems inscribed "One had to be versed in country things"

[Charles Agvent]

One of MANY fine Robert Frost items in our list of  103 New Arrivals:  
Poets & Presidents, Part I.   The list also includes many wonderful 
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FROST,  Robert.  COLLECTED  POEMS OF ROBERT  FROST.  New
        York: Henry  Holt  and Company (1930). First  Edition.  First
        Trade Edition.   Crane  A14.1:  3870   copies.  Winner   of a
        Pulitzer  Prize.  INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Frost on the  title
        page with  a line of poetry: "One had to be versed in country
        things/Robert   Frost/For  Fred   Morrison/Amherst/1930."  An
        exlibrary  copy  with skimmed mark from bookplate removal  on
        front pastedown, two minor markings on copyright page erased,
        and stamp  on  three outer bulked edges of text blacked  out.
        Morrison's  signature  on  front endpaper. Still  Very  Good,
        lacking the uncommon dustwrapper.                    $1000.00

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