[Rarebooks] FS: Autograph Guest Book SIGNED 3 times by Robert Frost with lines from four poems

[Charles Agvent]

 From our newly 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]. AUTOGRAPH GUEST BOOK SIGNED THREE TIMES BY  FROST
WITH  FOUR  LINES FROM HIS POEMS. Autograph Guest Book (8"  x  4-3/4")
maintained  1908-1947  by Sara J. Oliphant and dated by her  Christmas
1908  on  the front endpaper. The book has been SIGNED three times  by
the  poet  in  1915, 1916, and 1925, with four lines from  his  poems:
Mourning:  "The  fact  is  the sweetest  dream  that  labor  knows"; A
Servant  to  Servants:  "The way out is through";  Ghost  House:  "The
footpath  down  to the well is healed"; and Into My Own:  "Or  highway
where  the  slow  wheel  pours the sand." Two  entries  are  dated  in
Littleton,  New Hampshire and the other in Amherst, Massachusetts. All
are  dated and SIGNED by Frost. There are many other entries by family
and  acquaintances  of Ms. Oliphant. Frost was a long-time  friend  of
Charles  Oliphant,  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of
Methuen,  Massachusetts, and his family. In 1897, Rev. Oliphant,  then
head    of   the  Methuen  School   Committee,  wrote  a   letter   of
recommendation  for  Frost when he was a grammar school teacher  there
(Crane  F7).  Some  corrosion to several pages not  affecting  Frost's
entries;  covers  detached and very worn. Covers poor,  contents  Very
Good.                                                         $1750.00

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