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Frost, Robert. Collected poems. Henry Holt and Company, new y, 1939.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thick 8vo. (18) 436 pp, frontis. stated First Printing, 1939. Faintly age-toned bottom and fore- text block, top spine cloth edge frayed just slightly, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 8.75". Off-white cloth with maroon illustration on front board, maroon title plate and gilt lettering to spine, and maroon top text block. Size: Thick Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3347.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. First printing of this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of Frost's poems which includes all six of his best known books, and notably the poems in A Further Range. [1-4] 5-349 pages. Frost's manuscript poem on the front free endpaper which he has excerpted from his poem "Snow", signed and dated. In his first year at Bread Loaf, the poem was presented as a play at the Bread Loaf Little Theatre. He called this the most gratifying experience of his narrative poem presented as a play. He said that this puts the poem to the test where the sound is inextricably linked to the presentation in dramatic form. This copy has the bookplate of Richard and Charlotte Hogue. News reports in both the Washington Post and the now defunct Evening Star show Richard Hogue as a major advisor in government on social issues while Charlotte (usually referred to as Mrs. Richard Hogue) was President of the American Association of University of Women and also the President of the Washington, D.C. Poetry Group. She was also a joint author with John Ciardi in "Divergent Viewpoints of a Classic Poem". In this copy, Frost has now entitled the poem "A Cold Winter Storm" and has signed for the Hogues Mrs. Hogue's pencil notes on the rear endsheets note some of the key poems of Robert Frost. She also served on the committee with Eleanor Roosevelt and Judge Ben Lindsay on the dismissal of Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith from the National Training School for Girls. Dr. Smith's appeal for social justice met with both political and religious opposition. Also laid in is a postcard from a friend addressed to the Hogue home in Riverton, Virginia which reads "Dear C, of all things, omitted in my notes Mrs. Nichols went with me to the talk on the Whitman Editions, collectors and etc. (review marginal importance). Although it is not explicitly noted, the poetry group Charlotte Hogue presided over had Frost's daughter, Lesley Frost, as a judge in one of the poetry contests. Bound in beige cloth pictorially stamped in gilt blocked in dark brown depicting a home in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in brown and gilt, some toning or finger soiling to covers, small tape ghost to front pastedown, no foxing, in the very rare dust jacket which is chipped and worn with only front panel and flap along with rear flap present. A strong association copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, [13], 436 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine brown with tan lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$5.00." Chipping and creasing along edges of dust jacket. Two large open tears to head and tail of spine, obstructing title. Age toning to spine. Top edge of text block dyed red, though faded. Handwritten notes of previous owner on front free endpaper, and penciled annotations throughout. Signed flat by Frost on second endpaper. Shelved in Case 0. 1374722. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1939.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Frontispiece portrait. 436 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed with an Early Draft of a Poem. Frost has written out an early draft of his poem "Come In" lacking the eventual first stanza, and with a variant of the first line of the eventual second. "Come In" first appeared in The Atlantic in 1941 and was published in A Witness Tree in 1942. Crane A23 ; Lathem 46 Cloth. Fine in about fine dust jacket Frontispiece portrait. 436 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.