[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost INSCRIBED with 2 stanzas from "A Drumlin Woodchuck"

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Thu Apr 7 08:14:25 EDT 2011


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FROST, Robert. A FURTHER RANGE. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 
(1936). First Edition. A later printing of the First Trade Edition of 
Frost's third Pulitzer Prize winner. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED 
by the author on the half-title page to a professor at the University of 
Texas, Philip Graham, with two stanzas, a total of eight lines, from the 
poem "A Drumlin Woodchuck," which is included in this volume: "My own 
strategic retreat/Is where two rocks almost meet/And still more secure 
and snug/A two-door burrow I dug./With those in mind at my back/I can 
sit forth exposed to attack/As one who shrewdly pretends/That he and the 
world are friends." Owner name on the front endpaper. Spine sunned. Near 
Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.         $5,000.00

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