[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost's Collected Poems Inscribed to Cornelius Weygandt with 8 lines of poetry

[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, such as this one:

FROST,  Robert.  COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT  FROST  with  AUTOGRAPH
MANUSCRIPT  POEM. New York: Halcyon House (1939). First Edition. First
Printing  of  the Halcyon House edition, a near exact reproduction  of
the   Holt  edition  published  a   month  earlier  but  without   the
introduction.  INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED  by the  author  "For  Cornelius
Weygandt"  on  the  front endpaper with the final eight lines  of  the
final  poem  in  the book under the chapter  AFTERTHOUGHT  "A  Missive
Missal"  in FROST'S HOLOGRAPH, here titled "From Twenty-five  Thousand
Years  Ago--:  "Far as we aim our signs to reach/Far as we often  make
them  reach/There is an aeon limit set/Beyond which they are doomed to
miss./Two  souls  may be to [sic] widely  met./That  sad-with-distance
river  beach/With  mortal longing may beseech;/It cannot speak as  far
as  this."  Frost has omitted what would have been the third  line  of
this  section, "Across the soul-from-soul abyss." Weygandt, an English
scholar  at  the University of Pennsylvania, first met Frost in  1915.
He  is  described by Frost anonymously in his poem "New Hampshire"  as
the  man "Who comes from Philadelphia every year/With a great flock of
chickens  of rare breeds. Weygandt describes his friendship with Frost
in  THE  WHITE HILLS (pages 231-254). Fine, lacking  the  dustwrapper.
                                                               $7500.00

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