[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Association Copy of Robert Frost's Second Book, 1914, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $12,000 NET

FROST, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON Inscribed to Sidney Cox. London: David 
Nutt, (1914). First Edition. Crane A3: Binding A, one of 350 copies in 
this first binding of a total of 1000 printed of Frost's second book. 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet at a very early date on the front 
endpaper "Sidney Cox/from/Robert Frost/Ryton Dymock/England/October 
1914." The lifelong friendship between Frost and Cox began while Frost 
was teaching at the New Hampshire State Normal School in the academic 
year 1911 - 1912, before the publication of Frost's first book. Cox 
described their friendship in his own book, A SWINGER OF BIRCHES: A 
PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FROST. Frost's several months living in the old 
parish of Dymock was shared in part with the poet Edward Thomas whom 
Frost considered the closest friend he ever had. Thomas compared Frost 
to Wordsworth in one of his several favorable reviews of NORTH OF 
BOSTON. England's entry into the First World War hastened Frost's return 
to America early in 1915 with Thomas volunteering for service later that 
year and in 1917 giving his life in battle. According to THE OXFORD 
COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY IN ENGLISH, Frost told Cox in 
1914, the very year of this inscription, that the true poet's pleasure 
lay in making "his own words as he goes" rather than depending upon 
words whose meanings were fixed: "We write of things we see and we write 
in accents we hear. Thus we gather both our material and our technique 
with the imagination from life; and our technique becomes as much 
material as material itself." An important copy of this early and 
essential collection by Frost. Near Fine, lacking the scarce 
dustwrapper. (#012444)     $20,000.00

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