[Rarebooks] FS: Collected Poems of Robert Frost INSCRIBED to Cornelius Weygandt with a MANUSCRIPT POEM

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FROST, Robert. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT 
POEM. New York: Halcyon House, (1939). First Edition. First Printing of 
the Halcyon House edition, a near exact reproduction of the Holt edition 
published a month earlier but without the introduction. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by the author "For Cornelius Weygandt" on the front endpaper with 
the final eight lines of the final poem in the book under the chapter 
AFTERTHOUGHT "A Missive Missal" in FROST'S HOLOGRAPH, here titled "From 
Twenty-five Thousand Years Ago--: "Far as we aim our signs to reach/Far 
as we often make them reach/There is an aeon limit set/Beyond which they 
are doomed to miss./Two souls may be to [sic] widely met./That 
sad-with-distance river beach/With mortal longing may beseech;/It cannot 
speak as far as this." Frost has omitted what would have been the third 
line of this section, "Across the soul-from-soul abyss." Weygandt, an 
English scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, first met Frost in 
1915. He is described by Frost anonymously in his poem "New Hampshire" 
as the man "Who comes from Philadelphia every year/With a great flock of 
chickens of rare breeds." Weygandt describes his friendship with Frost 
in THE WHITE HILLS (pages 231-254). Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. 
(#015067)        $7,500.00

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