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Frost, Robert. Selected Poems by Robert Frost. Henry Holt and Company, 1923.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Unmarked pages with the exception of names written on the upper front flyleaf. There are a few soil spots on the pages outside of the textblock. The cover has some wear and bumping. The covering over the cardboard boards have been worn and chipped. The top edge of the spine is worn and frayed. The cover has some soil spots.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. Selected Poems. Henry Holt And Company, 1923.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ISBN . Hardback. First Printing of the First Edition as signified on the copyright page by the date 1923 with published March 1923 below that. No Dustjacket. Rubbed at the outer corners, down to the paper in spots, Front endpaper has a previous owners inscription as well as a lot of tape ghosting from a now removed photo that was once affixed. Still a nice presentable copy otherwise in Good condition.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. Selected Poems. Henry Holt and Company, 1923.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated "Second printing, January 1924"; opened pages; 143 p., clean and unmarked within, although there are faint smudges on end pages and the neatly printed name of former owner in small hand on lower edge of front end page; binding firm but volume slightly bowed; green boards with gilt lettering and garland decoration have bumped corners, ding on upper edge of front board, some rubbing at crown and foot of spine; odd staining/discoloration at edges which did not reach within the volume. Would be very good with rebinding.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. Selected Poems. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1923.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Black cloth spine with gilt title, device and publisher at base. Pappterned paper-covere boards. x, 143 pp. untrimmed page edges. unrecorded variant not found in worldcat, and a very solid copy at that. VG with lightest of wear to board extremities gift inscription on ffep in a neat hand
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. SELECTED POEMS. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1923.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 143 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Dark green spine with green text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has sunning to spine, chipping to corners and edges, and small black stain on front cover. Boards have rubbing to corners and mild shelf wear. Textblock has light age toning and foxing to many pages. Shelved Room A. 1374576. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
FROST, ROBERT. SELECTED POEMS. Henry Holt, 1923.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: SELECTED POEMS, Henry Holt, 1923, first edition, wear to the fore edge corner tips and some fraying to the head if the spine, else a tight, vg copy. 1/1,025 published.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert.. Selected Poems.. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1923.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing. A Very Good copy in smooth green cloth over dark green patterned paper covered boards, lacking the dustwrapper. Points of boards worn, one leaf roughly opened. 143pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Q06257
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. Selected Poems. Henry Holt, New York, 1923.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Light penciled gift inscriptions, corners a little bumped, still a bright and fresh, near fine copy lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. Selected Poems. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1923.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Second Edition in Scarce Dust Jacket. Dated 1923 but actually 1924, 'December, 1924' on Copyright Page. Octavo. Green dust jacket with dark green printed lettering. Very good, dust jacket worn around edges, light chipping and a few closed tears around edges heaviest near spine ends, spine slightly darkened, pages agetoned, small bookplate at bottom of front free end paper.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
FROST, ROBERT.. Selected Poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; 1025 copies were printed. Bookplate and gift inscription inside the front cover; very good or better in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a large chip at the bottom of the back panel, not affecting lettering, but cutting into the printed border. This collection includes poems from his first three books, as well as one poem that appeared here before its inclusion in New Hampshire. Lincoln MacVeagh, Frost's editor at Holt, suggested the publication of this book, to be quickly followed by New Hampshire, as a way to promote the poet as a major new literary figure. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. Selected Poems. Henry Holt, New York, 1923.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Bookplate on the front pastedown, gift inscription on the title page, corners a bit bumped and worn, still a bright and fresh, very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Description: This is a jacketed and inscribed first trade edition, first printing of the book that won Robert Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. Frost inked this copy in eight lines on the front free endpaper recto with the final five-line stanza of the poem "Our Singing Strength" (printed at p.110): "Well, something for a snowstorm to have shown | The countrys singing strength thus brought together, | That through repressed and moody with the weather, | Was none the less there ready to be freed | And sing the wild flowers up from root and seed. | Robert Frost | For | John Stuart Groves". The sole previous ownership mark we find in the book is the small, illustrated Morocco bookplate of "JOHN STUART GROVES" affixed to the front pastedown. Groves (1881-1958) was an accomplished Delaware bibliophile. On 1 January 1933 Frost wrote "Dear Mr. Groves: I shall be glad to write my name in your copies of my books. I have a warm place in my heart for firsts and should be a fancier and collector myself if I had ever got round to it. My winter address is Amherst Mass. Sincerely yours Robert Frost". (Letters of Robert Frost, Vol. III, p.305) The first edition is a lovely production, bound in quarter dark green linen cloth over dark green paper-covered boards, with a gold paper label on the front cover illustrated and printed in black, and gilt print and decoration on the spine. The contents are printed on white wove paper with gilt top edge, illustrated with four woodcuts by J. J. Lankes (1884-1960), and bound with mottled tan endpapers and yellow and green head and foot bands. This copy approaches very good condition in a good dust jacket. The lovely but fragile publishers binding is square, tight, and unfaded. Wear is substantially confined to the spine ends and corners, where the paper is nicked, exposing the card beneath. The board surfaces are only lightly scuffed with a few, trivial blemishes. The contents are clean with no spotting and mild age-toning only evident on the untrimmed fore and bottom edges. The top edge is dust-dulled. The first printing dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original "$2.50" price. The jacket is soiled, the spine mildly toned, a moisture stain spanning the upper rear flap fold. The jacket is substantially complete, with minor loss to the flap fold extremities and spine ends and general wear along the top edges with short closed tears and wrinkling at the upper front face. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.Iconic American poet Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963), the quintessential poetic voice of New England, was actually born in San Francisco and first published in England. When Frost was eleven, his newly widowed mother moved east to Salem, New Hampshire, to resume a teaching career. There Frost swiftly found his poetic voice, infused by New England scenes and sensibilities. Promising as both a student and writer, Frost nonetheless dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, supporting himself and a young family by teaching and farming. A 1912 move to England with his wife and children "the place to be poor and to write poems" finally catalyzed his recognition as a noteworthy American poet. There Frost published A Boys Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), establishing his reputation. Mountain Interval (1916) and Selected Poems (1923) followed.New Hampshire was published in November 1923 (contrary to the "October, 1923" statement on the title page verso) and, in 1924, won Frost the Pulitzer Prize "For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author". It was to be the first of his eventual four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry (1931, 1937, and 1943). New Hampshire includes several of Frosts most well-known poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", "Fire and Ice", and "Dust of Snow".Reference: Crane A6
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.