[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost Letter and Manuscript Poem: BIRCHES

[Charles Agvent]

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FROST, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED and a 
14-line MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT OF "BIRCHES" by Frost. New York: Henry Holt, 
1915. Third Edition. Tipped to the front pastedown is an @50 word 
AUTOGRAPH LETTER dated 12 May 1923 from South Shaftsbury, Vermont, 
SIGNED by the author, mentioning this book and how Frost would be happy 
to sign it if it is sent to his Ann Arbor address. On the first blank is 
a fourteen-line HOLOGRAPH FRAGMENT of Frost's famous poem "Birches," 
also SIGNED by the author with the dedication beneath his signature "To 
Maurice Frink," the same person to whom the letter is addressed. The 
fragment is the heart of the 59-line poem, first published in 1916 in 
MOUNTAIN INTERVAL, the book that followed NORTH OF BOSTON. It begins: 
"So was I once myself a swinger of birches" and concludes "I'd like to 
go by climbing a birch tree." An absolutely superb example of a 
holograph poem by Frost in a book, one of the best that we have 
encountered. The front free endpaper, which has Frink's 1915 markings 
along with a much later Christmas presentation in another hand, is 
detached and laid in, which allows the book, when opened, to have the 
letter facing the poem. Gilt bright, very minor rubbing to the spine 
tips. The scarce dustwrapper has the correct spelling of "faint" on the 
front. Some mild chipping to the head of the spine just affecting 
"North" in the title and slightly extending to both panels. Near Fine in 
a Very Good dustwrapper. (#010226)        $25,000.00

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