[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited Robert Frost: WEST-RUNNING BROOK

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Mon Jun 22 12:01:03 EDT 2009


 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.  WEST-RUNNING  BROOK. New  York:  Henry  Holt  and
Company  (1928).  First Edition. Cloth-backed boards decorated  with a
pattern  of  maple  leaves. Crane A10.1: "Though printed in  the  same
year  as the first [trade] edition by the same publisher, this edition
is  in  an  entirely  different  setting  and  format  with  different
pagination."  Illustrated with a frontispiece and three woodcuts by J.
J.  Lankes,  each plate SIGNED by the artist in pencil. Copy  #184  of
1000  SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Contains the  title
poem,  "Spring Pools," and "Acquainted With the Night," among  others.
A  few  scattered spots of foxing. The scarce original glassine  has a
couple  of small chips but is in very nice condition. The slipcase  is
split  along the top edge but otherwise also very nice. About Fine  in
the original glassine and slipcase.                           $1250.00

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