[Rarebooks] FS: Lewis Mumford's Copy of Robert Frost's NORTH OF BOSTON with a full-page SIGNED reminiscence by Mumford, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $1000,      Now $700

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FROST, Robert [MUMFORD, Lewis]. NORTH OF BOSTON. New York: Henry Holt 
and Company, 1915. Early Printing of the First Edition printed in 
America of Frost's second collection of poetry. This copy belonged to 
Lewis Mumford and is SIGNED by him on the front endpaper along with a 
full-page reminiscence: "This is my earliest volume of Frost, but when I 
got it I've forgotten, as I've forgotten the first time I met 
him--though it was probably around 1928 or 1929 when he came to 
Rosenfeld's apartment and we took him to Luchow's. He favored The 
American Caravan & even gave us a poem for it: but he wondered over our 
giving so much of our own time to other people's work. He visited Sophy 
& me at Sunnyside twice, the last time with his wife around 1932 or 33. 
We've met a long intervals, but always memorably. 31 Jan. 61." Mumford 
(1895-1990) was an urban historian and cultural critic whom Malcolm 
Cowley called the "last of the great humanists." He is considered by 
many to be the foremost historian of the city in the English-speaking 
world and the twentieth century's greatest American architectural 
critic. An entertaining account of Mumford's lunch with Frost, mentioned 
above, is given in Donald Miller's LEWIS MUMFORD: A LIFE (page 260). 
Light wear to spine tips. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. 
(#015069)        $700.00

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