[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost's Second National Publication

[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).  "The Quest of the Orchis" in  THE  INDEPENDENT.
June  27, 1901. Frost's Second National Publication. New York: 27 June
1901.  First  Edition. Contains Frost's second national appearance  in
print,  here  as R. L. Frost, after the poem "My Butterfly: An  Elegy"
which  appeared  in the same magazine in 1894. The importance of  this
magazine  to Frost predated his writing for it. According to Elizabeth
Shepley  Sergeant, Frost's first encounter with the publication was of
immense  importance  to  him: "I happened into the  old  library,  and
found  on the magazine rack a copy of the INDEPENDENT, with a poem  on
the  front  page.... This experience gave me my very first  revelation
that  a  publication existed, anywhere in my native land,  that  was a
vehicle  for  the publication of poetry."  Small stain to front cover;
minor wear and small chips. Very Good and quite scarce.       $1500.00

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