[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost's Poems with "The Pasture" handwritten by Frost

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recently posted internet catalog of 118 Robert Frost items 
including approximately 75 SIGNED items of which approximately 20 
contain lines of poetry, in some cases complete stanzas or poems, in the 
hand of Frost.

FROST, Robert. THE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST. New York: Modern Library
(1946).  Reprint  of  this popular collection which  features  Frost's
essay  on poetry, "The Constant Symbol," as an introduction. This copy
has  been  SIGNED  by  the  author and INSCRIBED  to  minor  poet  and
folklorist  Addison  Barker  with the complete  eight-line  poem  "The
Pasture,"  the first poem in the book, in the poet's hand on the  page
opposite  the  title page. The recipient's signature is on  the  front
endpaper  above a pasted newspaper photograph of Frost and Barker  has
noted  on the title page the date Frost wrote the poem in the book: 25
January  1950.  Barker has an interesting connection to Frost in  that
in  1951  he published the discovery of the very first  appearance  in
print  (BLUM'S FARMER'S AND PLANTER'S ALMANAC FOR 1850) of the proverb
"Good  fences  make good neighbors." Barker tried to find an  earlier,
New  England  appearance  before  publication in  the  North  Carolina
almanac  but  was  unsuccessful. There were previous variants  on  the
proverb,  but  none  exactly  as  Frost used  it.  Even  without  this
academic  aside to an entirely different poem, "The Pasture" is one of
Frost's  best  known poems and not commonly encountered, complete,  in
manuscript form. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper.        $6500.00

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