[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost NORTH OF BOSTON with a stanza from his famous THE PASTURE entirely in Frost's hand and SIGNED by him

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FROST, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT STANZA. New 
York: Henry Holt and Company, (May 1917). Early Printing of the First 
Edition printed in America of Frost's second collection of poetry. This 
copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the title page for Harold 
Dickson along with the first stanza (of two) of the first poem in the 
book "The Pasture" in the poet's hand: "I'm going out to clean the 
pasture spring I'll only stop to rake the leaves away And wait to watch 
the water clear I may I shan't be gone long. You come too." Dickson is 
likely the British colonial administrator in the Middle East from the 
1920s until the 1940s, author of several books on the region. Near Fine, 
lacking the dustwrapper. (#015068)        $3,500.00

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