[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost's First Book SIGNED with a Stanza of his Poetry in his Hand

[Charles Agvent]

One of over 60 SIGNED Robert Frost items from our stock including books, 
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FROST, Robert. A BOY'S WILL with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT STANZA. New York: 
Henry Holt and Company, (1934). First Edition. Crane A2.2. The Second 
American Edition of Frost's first book, designated "First 1934 Edition" 
on the copyright page. The book was redesigned and the text completely 
reset, with a woodcut by Thomas Nason added and a few minor changes by 
Frost made from the original edition. This copy SIGNED by the author and 
INSCRIBED for Don Smith on the front endpaper with the last stanza of a 
poem in the book, "The Vantage Point," titled here by Frost as "People 
in the Distant Village and Graveyard," in MANUSCRIPT in Frost's hand: 
"And if by noon I have to [sic] much of these/I have but to turn on my 
arm and lo/The sun-burned hillside sets my face aglow/My breathing 
shakes the bluet like a breeze/I smell the earth I smell the bruisäd 
plant/I look into the crater of the ant." Most of paper on front hinge 
is split, but the cover is very tight and the webbing intact. Near Fine 
in a dustwrapper with small chips at the spine tips. (#015036) $4,500.00

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