[Rarebooks] FS: Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in.

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Mon Jun 8 11:55:56 EDT 2009


 From our new internet catalog which will be posted on our website on 
Tuesday.  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
1914  (Dec  1924).  Later Printing of the Second  Edition  of  Frost's
second  book. Portrait frontispiece of the author. SIGNED by the  poet
on  the  front endpaper with some of his most famous lines, from  "The
Death  of  the  Hired Man," a poem in this book: "'Home is  the  place
where/when you have to go there/They have to take you in.''I  should
have  called  it/Something you somehow haven't  to  deserve.'/Robert
Frost/Philadelphia  Oct  27 1925." Hinges cracked, possibly  repaired,
but  now  tight;  spine  a  bit  dull.   Very  Good  in  a  Near  Fine
dustwrapper.                                                  $3500.00

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