[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost's A BOY'S WILL, signed with a stanza from "The Vantage Point" in Frost's hand

[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.  A BOY'S WILL. New York: Henry  Holt  and  Company
(1934).  First  Edition.  Crane A2.2. The Second American  Edition  of
Frost's  first book, designated "First 1934 Edition" on the  copyright
page.  The  book was redesigned and the text completely reset,  with a
woodcut  by  Thomas Nason added and a few minor changes by Frost  made
from  the  original  edition.  This  copy SIGNED  by  the  author  and
INSCRIBED  for Don Smith on the front endpaper with the last stanza of
a  poem  in  the book, "The Vantage Point," titled here  by  Frost  as
"People  in the Distant Village and Graveyard," in Frost's hand:  "And
if  by noon I have to [sic] much of these/I have but to turn on my arm
and  lo/The sun-burned hillside sets my face aglow/My breathing shakes
the  bluet like a breeze/I smell the earth I smell the bruisŠd plant/I
look  into  the  crater of the ant." Most of paper on front  hinge  is
split,  but the cover is very tight and the webbing intact. Near  Fine
in a dustwrapper with small chips at the spine tips.          $4500.00

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