Sale 21BP02 | Lot 205

FROST, ROBERT Two works signed or inscribed by Robert Frost.

Catalogue: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
FROST, ROBERT  Two works signed or inscribed by Robert Frost.

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Lot 205
FROST, ROBERT Two works signed or inscribed by Robert Frost.
Collected Poems of Robert Frost. New York: Henry Holt, 1939. First edition, first printing, signed by Frost and dated 1939. Publisher's tan cloth in dust jacket. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (21.5 x 14.5 cm); xvi, 436 pp.; frontispiece by Doris Ulmann. Some toning to cloth, light wear to jacket extremities with short tears, spine a tad toned, but in all a nice copy; Together with [Idem]. New York: Halcyon House, [1939]. Inscribed "To [Lucina?] Miller/the best wishes of/Robert Frost/Harvard April 10 1924." Publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (21.5 x 14.5 cm); viii, 436 pp.; frontispiece by Doris Ulmann. Some toning to cloth, light wear to jacket extremities with short tears, but in all a sound copy.
The Halcyon edition followed that of Holt by about a month; the Holt edition bears the Lankes wood engraving on the title, and has Frost's introduction, lacking from the other.


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Estimate: $300 - $500
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Estimate: $300 - $500
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