[Rarebooks] FS: Lewis Mumford's copy of Robert Frost's North of Boston with full-page recollection of Frost

[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 [MUMFORD, Lewis]. NORTH OF BOSTON. New York:  Henry
Holt  and Company 1915. Early Printing of the First Edition printed in
America  of Frost's second collection of poetry. This copy belonged to
Lewis  Mumford and is SIGNED by him on the front endpaper along with a
full-page  reminiscence:  "This  is my earliest volume of  Frost,  but
when  I got it I've forgotten, as I've forgotten the first time I  met
him--though  it  was  probably  around 1928 or 1929 when  he  came  to
Rosenfeld's  apartment  and  we took him to Luchow's. He  favored  The
American  Caravan  & even gave us a poem for it: but he wondered  over
our  giving so much of our own time to other people's work. He visited
Sophy  &  me  at Sunnyside twice, the last time with his  wife  around
1932  or 33. We've met a long intervals, but always memorably. 31 Jan.
61."  Mumford  (1895-1990) was an urban historian and cultural  critic
whom  Malcolm  Cowley called the "last of the great humanists." He  is
considered  by  many to be the foremost historian of the city  in  the
English-speaking  world and the twentieth century's greatest  American
architectural  critic. An entertaining account of Mumford's lunch with
Frost,  mentioned above, is given in Donald Miller's LEWIS  MUMFORD: A
LIFE  (page  260).  Light wear to spine tips. Very Good,  lacking  the
dustwrapper.                                                  $1000.00

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