[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost NORTH OF BOSTON with the first stanza of "The Pasture" in Frost's hand

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new internet catalog which will be posted on our website next 
week.  It will contain more than 100 Robert Frost items including 
approximately 75 SIGNED items of which approximately 20, like the one 
below, contain lines of poetry, in some cases complete stanzas or poems, 
in the hand of Frost.

FROST,  Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON. New York: Henry Holt and  Company
(May  1917). Early Printing of the First Edition printed in America of
Frost's  second  collection  of  poetry. This copy  is  INSCRIBED  and
SIGNED  by  the poet on the title page for Harold Dickson  along  with
the  first stanza (of two) of the first poem in the book "The Pasture"
in  the  poet's hand:

"I'm going out to clean the pasture spring
I'll only  stop to rake the leaves away
And wait to watch the water clear I may
I  shan't  be  gone long. You come too."

Dickson  is  likely  the British  colonial  administrator  in the Middle 
East  from  the  1920s until  the  1940s, author of several books on the 
region.  Near  Fine,lacking the dustwrapper.                 $3500.00

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