[Rarebooks] FS: POEMS OF ROBERT FROST with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM

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FROST, Robert. THE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM. 
New York: Modern Library, (1946). Reprint of this popular collection 
which features Frost's essay on poetry, "The Constant Symbol," as an 
introduction. This copy has been SIGNED by the author and INSCRIBED to 
minor poet and folklorist Addison Barker with the complete eight-line 
poem "The Pasture," the first poem in the book, in the poet's hand on 
the page opposite the title page. The recipient's signature is on the 
front endpaper above a pasted newspaper photograph of Frost, and Barker 
has noted on the title page the date Frost wrote the poem in the book: 
25 January 1950. Barker has an interesting connection to Frost in that 
in 1951 he published the discovery of the very first appearance in print 
(BLUM'S FARMER'S AND PLANTER'S ALMANAC FOR 1850) of the proverb "Good 
fences make good neighbors." Barker tried to find an earlier, New 
England appearance before publication in the North Carolina almanac but 
was unsuccessful. There were previous variants on the proverb, but none 
exactly as Frost used it. Even without this academic aside to an 
entirely different poem, "The Pasture" is one of Frost's best known 
poems and not commonly encountered, complete, in manuscript form. Very 
Good in a Very Good dustwrapper. (#015051)        $6,500.00

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