[Rarebooks] FS: Unusual Robert Frost item with 3 SIGNATURES & 4 MS Lines of Poetry, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1400 NET

[FROST, Robert]. AUTOGRAPH GUEST BOOK SIGNED THREE TIMES BY FROST WITH 
FOUR LINES FROM HIS POEMS. . Autograph Guest Book (8" x 4-3/4") 
maintained 1908-1947 by Sara J. Oliphant and dated by her Christmas 1908 
on the front endpaper. The book has been SIGNED three times by the poet 
in 1915, 1916, and 1925, with four lines from his poems: Mourning: "The 
fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows"; A Servant to Servants: 
"The way out is through"; Ghost House: "The footpath down to the well is 
healed"; and Into My Own: "Or highway where the slow wheel pours the 
sand." Two entries are dated in Littleton, New Hampshire and the other 
in Amherst, Massachusetts. All are dated and SIGNED by Frost. There are 
many other entries by family and acquaintances of Ms. Oliphant. Frost 
was a long-time friend of Charles Oliphant, pastor of the First 
Congregational Church of Methuen, Massachusetts, and his family. In 
1897, Rev. Oliphant, then head of the Methuen School Committee, wrote a 
letter of recommendation for Frost when he was a grammar school teacher 
there (Crane F7). Some corrosion to several pages not affecting Frost's 
entries; covers detached and very worn. Covers poor, contents Very Good. 
(#015099) $1,750.00

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