[Rarebooks] FS: Four Uncommon Robert Frost items, all with reduced prices

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Mon May 23 11:42:02 EDT 2011


Some of many fine Robert Frost items in stock including more than 100 
SIGNED books, photographs, manuscripts, ephemera, etc.  You can see them 
all on our home page:
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Price reduced:    Was $200   Now  $150:

(FROST, Robert) COHEN, Helen Louise. MORE ONE-ACT PLAYS BY MODERN 
AUTHORS. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1927). First Edition. 
First Book Publication of Frost's play A WAY OUT (Crane A11) published 
separately in a signed limited edition in 1929. Other contributors to 
this anthology include Eugene O'Neill and A. A. Milne. Spotting to 
cloth; mild sunning and chipping to the dustwrapper spine. Quite 
uncommon in a dustwrapper. Still Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. 
         $150.00

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Price reduced:    Was $250   Now  $150:

[FROST, Robert] ADAMS, Frederick B., Jr. TO RUSSIA WITH FROST [Monroe 
Wheeler's Copy]. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. First Edition. 
Cloth-backed boards; 41, [2] pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece 
portrait of Frost, photographs, and two small wood engravings by Thomas 
Nason made for this publication and printed from the original blocks. 
One of 500 copies printed by Jospeh Blumenthal at the Spiral Press. This 
copy with Monroe Wheeler's bookplate on the front endpaper and a 
Christmas card from Adams with a handwritten note to Wheeler pasted to 
the front pastedown along with the envelope simply addressed to 
"Monroe." In addition there is a small note laid in by a previous seller 
stating that Ann Adams, daughter of Fred, said that most copies were 
badly damaged when stored. Fine in slipcase, as issued.         $150.00

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Price reduced:    Was $125   Now  $85:

[FROST, Robert]. ROBERT FROST. A CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY. Middletown, CT: 
Olin Memorial Library, 1936. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Copy 
#122 of 250 of this survey of an exhibit of Frost's work at the library. 
Owner name on the front endpaper dated Middletown, April 30, 1936, the 
month of the exhibit. Very Good, lacking the original glassine but with 
new mylar.         $85.00

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Price reduced:    Was $150   Now  $75:

(FROST, Robert) EBERHART, Richard. THE ARTS ANTHOLOGY. DARTMOUTH VERSE 
1925. With an introduction by Robert Frost. Portland, ME: The Mosher 
Press, 1925. First Edition. Parchment-backed boards. Copy #227 of 500, 
including four poems by Richard Eberhart, his first appearance in a 
book. Crane D3. Mild soiling to covers. Near Fine.         $75.00

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