[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Frost A BOY'S WILL with MANUSCRIPT STANZA

[Charles Agvent]

FROST, Robert. A BOY'S WILL with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT STANZA. New York: 
Henry Holt and Company, (1934). First Illustrated Edition. Redesigned 
with the text completely reset and with the addition of woodcuts by 
Thomas Nason. This copy is INSCRIBED to Don Smith and SIGNED by the poet 
on the front endpaper where Frost has also written out the second stanza 
of the two-stanza poem in the book, "The Vantage Point":

And if by noon I have to [sic] much of these
I have but to turn on my arm and lo
The sunburned hillside sets my face aglow
My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze
I smell the earth I smell the bruisèd plant
I look into the crater of the ant.

Paper split to front hinge but cover very tight. Near Fine in a Near 
Fine dustwrapper with light edgewear. (#020683)        $4,500

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