[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of Robert Frost's First Pulitzer Prize Winner, in the scarce dustwrapper, 1923

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Sun Apr 14 16:17:31 EDT 2013


FROST, Robert. NEW HAMPSHIRE. A POEM WITH NOTES AND GRACE NOTES. New 
York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. 
One of Frost's most notable books and winner of his first Pulitzer Prize 
containing such poems as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and 
"Fire and Ice." Illustrated with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. Owner name of 
Orriville W. Prouty dated Christmas 1923 on the front endpaper with 
another name at the bottom of the page. Dustwrapper with small chip at 
head of spine just affecting the "w" in "New" and extending slightly on 
the rear panel and a thumb-sized chip at the bottom of the front panel. 
Other minor chips and closed tears with light soiling. Near Fine in a 
Very Good example of the uncommon dustwrapper. (#012454)        $1,000.00

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