[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Robert Frost with a charming and lengthy handwritten note to a young child

[Charles Agvent]

One of over 60 SIGNED Robert Frost items from our stock including books, 
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FROST, Robert. A WITNESS TREE. New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1942). 
Early but not first printing. This copy is SIGNED by the author and 
lengthily and charmingly INSCRIBED to a very young child on the front 
endpaper: "For Linda to keep for her own but not/read till she is six or 
seven; when/I think she may begin with page 29 and/go on gradually to 
page 30 then 41/then 42 then perhaps 57 at the rate of one or/two a year 
to her mothers tune and her fathers explanation. It would be nice/if she 
arrived at page 65 some time/late in her fifties thinking of me/Robert 
Frost/August 30 1942." The inscription, which takes up more than half 
the page, is to Linda Jean Wheelwright, the daughter of noted educator, 
critic, and philosopher Philip Wheelwright. The poem "The Gift Outright" 
on page 41 has been corrected with two words added by Frost. The 
recipient's small address label when she was at Vasser on the front 
pastedown above her small ink stamp, both hidden by the front flap of 
the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. (#015035)        
$1,500.00

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