[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost Manuscript "Once by the Pacific" in Selected Poems

[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. SELECTED POEMS. New York: Henry Holt  and  Company
1923  (1926).  INSCRIBED For Sue Grundy Bonner and SIGNED by the  poet
on  the front free endpaper beneath the complete sonnet, "Once by  the
Pacific,"  entirely  in the author's hand and here titled "Fiat  Nox,"
the  chapter  heading under which this poem is the first printed  from
the  book  WEST-RUNNING BROOK. This poem, one of the few  Frost  wrote
about  the  state  of  his birth, California, was begun  by  Frost  in
college  but not finished until 46 years later. The first four of  the
fourteen  lines  set the stage:

"The shattered water made a misty din
Great waves looked over others coming in
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before."

Very mild sunning to the spine with light fraying to the spine tips. 
Neat tissue  repair to the front hinge. Housed in a handsome 
gilt-lettered brown  morocco-backed  marbled paper clamshell box. Still 
  Near  Fine, lacking the dustwrapper but in a Fine box. 
     $5000.00

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