[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost NORTH OF BOSTON with the First Stanza of "The Pasture"

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FROST, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT STANZA. New 
York: Henry Holt and Company, (May 1917). First Edition. Early (May 
1917) but not First Printing of the First Edition printed in America of 
Frost's second collection of poetry. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED 
by the poet on the title page for Harold Dickson along with the first 
stanza (of two) of the first poem in the book "The Pasture" in the 
poet's hand: "I'm going out to clean the pasture spring I'll only stop 
to rake the leaves away And wait to watch the water clear I may I shan't 
be gone long. You come too." Dickson is likely the British colonial 
administrator in the Middle East from the 1920s until the 1940s, author 
of several books on the region. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. 
(#015068)        $3,500.00

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