[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost's Collected Poems with his poem "Spring Pools" handwritten and SIGNED by Frost on the front endpaper
Charles Agvent
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Tue Jun 12 12:09:01 EDT 2012
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FROST, Robert. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT
POEM. New York: Halcyon House, (1939). First Edition. Second Printing.
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "For Margaret Stearns" in 1940 on the
front endpaper with the entire twelve-line poem "Spring Pools" in
FROST'S HOLOGRAPH, with one word changed from the original. SIGNED and
dated by the poet at the top of the poem and SIGNED again and INSCRIBED
at the end. Owner's name on the front pastedown. Mild sunning to the
cloth. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
This book reprints the contents of the 1939 COLLECTED POEMS, which
reprinted the contents of the 1930 COLLECTED POEMS with the addition of
A FURTHER RANGE. It collects all of the poems from NORTH OF BOSTON, NEW
HAMPSHIRE, and A FURTHER RANGE. The poems from A BOY'S WILL, MOUNTAIN
INTERVAL, and WEST-RUNNING BROOK are those included in the 1930
COLLECTED POEMS with the additions and deletions from the first editions
that occurred in that collection. Frost's introduction, "The Figure A
Poem Makes," is not included. (#012439) $9,500.00
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