[Rarebooks] FS: MEMOIRS OF THE NOTORIOUS STEPHEN BURROUGHS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE with interesting comment by Robert Frost

[Charles Agvent]

(FROST, Robert) BURROUGHS, Stephen. MEMOIRS OF THE NOTORIOUS STEPHEN 
BURROUGHS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. New York: MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1924. 
First Edition. Cloth-backed batik boards. Account of an eighteenth 
century New Englander reprinted from the Albany edition of 1811, this 
edition with a preface by Robert Frost, his second prose appearance in a 
book (Crane D2). Howes B1022: "Picaresque adventures, perhaps somewhat 
exaggerated, of a New England rogue." This copy is SIGNED by the poet on 
the front endpaper with his initials and with an interesting comment on 
Burroughs: "Stephen Burroughs is said to have been/related to John 
Burroughs/R.F./May 1943." An uncommon book downright scarce when signed. 
Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. (#015085)        
$850.00

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