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Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt, NY, 1928.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green paper boards, green cloth spine and panels, Small paste down illustration on front cover. Light general wear, a few areas of moderte edgewear. 64pp. Worm hole at top corner of pages 43-64. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Thin Octavo; G+; 1/4 bound dark green spine with gilt text; first edition; no jacket; cloth shows slight sunning to exterior; gilt illustrated paper label to front; sturdy boards; some rubbing wear to edges; exterior edges to text block have modest age toning; marbled endpapers; partial cracking to rear hinge; frontispiece; interior pages good; illustrated; pp 64. 1350356. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY NY 1928, NY, 1928.
Price: US$38.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG WORN ON EXTREMITIES, SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER IN 1928
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt, New York, NY, 1928.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Heavy yellowing to pages. Name inscribed inside the front cover. Personal plate on endpaper. Rubbing (shelf wear) to covers.; 64 pages
Seller: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1928.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First state. viii, 64 pp. Head and heel of spine bumped and lightly rubbed, corners of boards bumped and split, page edges tanned, previous owner name and note on front free endpaper. Jacket present but sunned, stained, chipped and torn, with numerous small pieces missing at edges and much of spine panel missing.
Seller: Crane's Bill Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook.. NY: Henry Holt and Company 1928)., 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. 8vo. Frontispiece illustration. viii, 64 pp. Quarter dark green cloth and green paper covered boards with illustrated paper label set into front cover. Four wood block illustrations. First state without "First Edition" copyright page and with "roams" instead of "romps" on the last line of page 44 (Crane, A10). Wear at the spinal extremities, tips and fore edges, brief non authorial inscription from 1928 on front free endpaper, very good minus.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
FROST, ROBERT.. West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first state (lacking 'first edition' on the copyright page); good to very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt,, New York:, 1928.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: First State Very good+ in 1/4 dark green cloth and green paper covered boards with gilt text on the spine and an illustrated paper label on the front board and decorated end sheets. The cloth at the head of the spine shows modest rubbing, the paper is rubbed through over the lower tips of the boards and there is a prior owner's name written on the first free end page along with a book plate. The paper label on the front board is clean and without any nicks, tears or chips. The gilt text on the spine is bright and easily read. Without its issued dust jacket. This copy is a first state of the first edition as the slug "First Edition" does not appear on the copyright page; and with "roams" instead of "romps" on the last line of page 44. (Crane, A10) 64 pages containing 39 poems with four, full page wood block illustrations by J.J. Lankes. Laid-in at the rear of the book are portions of the original dust jacket.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt, 1928.
Price: US$92.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Henry Holt and Company; New York, 1928. Hardcover. First Edition, First Issue (word: roams instead of romps on last line of page 44 and without the first printing statement on the copyright page). A Very Good, grey boards and green spine, paper illustrated label on front board and gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, deckle fore-edge, some rubbing to board and spine edges, small abrasions to board corners, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some age toning to pages, some handling/scuffing to boards, small dent top front board edge, without Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches], 64pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
FROST, ROBERT. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt, 1928.
Price: US$92.80 + shipping
Description: WEST-RUNNING BROOK, Henry Holt, 1928, first edition (mixed issue with "first Edition" stated on copyright page and roams for romps on page 44), some wear to the fore edge corner tips and some light rubbing to the spine extremities, else a bright vg+ copy in a g/vg dust-wrapper with chipping to both the extremities of the dust-wrapper spine and upper flap folds. Illustrated with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt, 1928.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1928 Holt first edition with points, tiny wear to board tips no jacket tight binding. No marks, page 16-17 show tone from likely newspaper laid in.d21 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Quarter bound in green cloth with green paper boards and gilt text on spine and gilt label on front cover. Boards show rubbing to corners exposing boards and rubbing to spine edges. Textblock has book plate on front pastedown. Copy has "First Edition" on copyright page indicating second state and "roams"on page 44 indicating first state, indicating mixed state. Shelved Case 0. 1372070. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 64pp.; HB quarter-bound; dk.green&green w/gilt-gilt pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; some lt.tan w/ lean,tight pgs. DJ gray w/blk.&red; in 4 pieces-flaps&covers, no backstrip; heavy rub w/stains; sunned w/chips&tears. Poetry. "In West-Running Brook these is much less of the domestic drama and more ot the personal song than usual. " illus. gift inscription half tuitle page. not by author
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First state - Roams on page 44, absent "First Edition" on copyright page. Lacking dust jacket. Rubbing to head and heel and extremities of boards. Previous owner's name on front free end paper witha copy of her poetry work laid-in.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. West - Running Brook. Henry Holt And Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$102.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOK IS IN GREAT CONDITION, dust jacket has chips missing from the top middle of front cover (no loss of text) 1" chip from middle of spine affecting text in the title (the ng in running and the br in brook), top of dj spine also has minor chip, otherwise dj has protected book well and lists other books by Frost on the back of the jacket, First Edition So Stated on copyright page. The first printing consisted of about 8,400 copies (Most of the printing) before the publisher noticed that the words "FIRST EDITION" had been omitted. It was estimated that there were about 1,000 remaining copies from the run that were then corrected with the words "FIRST PRINTING" appearing on the copyright page.(Ahearn's Author Price Guides, pps.137/38 1998
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in very good condition. There is corner bumping and some minor edge wear. First edition is not stated however, "Roams" on page.44 confirms edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Hbk, 64pp, first edition / first state without 'Frist Edition' on copyright page and with 'roams' instead of 'romps' in the last line of page 44 (Crane A10), illustr 4 b+w woodcuts by J.J. Lankes, lacks dj, now in custom acetate jacket, fine quarter green cloth over gray-green paper-covered boards, gilt and illustrated paper label and gilt spine titles, there is a very small brown spot (largely invisible against the green paper) near the front foredge, otherwise appears a previously-unread copy, excellent, clean, tight and unmarked, and a handsome example, almost as new
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: very good hardcover with no dust jacket. some edgewear and spine wear. 1928 first edition.
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert.. West-Running Brook.. Henry Holt and Company, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing, Second Issue, with "First Edition" on copyright page. A nice, sharp copy in green cloth over green paper covered boards, lacking a dust wrapper. 64pp. with four woodcuts including frontis by J.J. Lankes. Q11717
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
robert frost. west running brook. henry holt and company, 1928.
Price: US$139.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: dj: none. book: avg condition. true 1st edition. page 44 says roams instead of roam.
Seller: Thylacine Books, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928. First edition, first issue, with "roams" (instead of romps) on last line of page 44 and without the "first printing" statement on the copyright page. Bound in quarter green linen with spine stamped brightly in gilt. Illustrated by J. J. Lankes. Very good condition with light bumping to the corners and prior owners name and address written neatly inside the front board. No other internal marks and NOT ex-library. Missing dust jacket. Discreet small label for the Park Place Book Shop (Englewood, New Jersey) pasted inside back cover. One of Frosts most popular collections of poetry.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue. Very good with wear to the spine ends and corners, lightly scuffed, an ink notation on the front endpaper. Includes a letter from a bookseller to a customer, clarifying a point about the edition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, presumed first state (*Crane A10*; without "First Edition" statement on copyright page and with "roams" on page 44, which was corrected in later issues to "romps"). Illustrated by J.J. Lankes. Corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, near fine in a spine-tanned good only dust jacket with moderate chipping along the top edge, 1" loss at the middle of the spine (affecting title), modest soil and a few chips and tears. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Quarter bound in green cloth with green paper boards and gilt text on spine and gilt label on front cover. Boards show rubbing to corners exposing boards and rubbing to spine edges. Textblock has slight age toning and owner's inscription on front endpaper. Copy lacks "First Edition" on copyright page and has "roams"on page 44 indicating first state. Shelved Case 0. 1374553. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the stated first edition, 2nd state with "roams" page 44 [Crane A10]. Light rubbing to edge of boards, and faint toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a couple short closed-tears, toning to spine and cover margins, moderate paper loss along upper back cover, spine ends/corners, soiling, and a couple closed tears.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. First Edition. HBDJ, 1928, 1st edition,1st state, Light Wear Cover & Rub to Corners,Green Cloth with Gold Metallic Applique Printed Label on Front Cover, Overall Light Wear, F-/G, AS-IS, DJ has some wear & Rub & small pieces missing around Extremities & Along Spine , Piece missing bottom spine DJ approx 1 inch, 64 pgs,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
FROST, ROBERT.. West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first state (lacking 'first edition' on the copyright page); very good in a very worn and torn dust jacket. 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. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, NY, 1928.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: No marks or writing, clean tight binding;; corners slightly bumped;; 39 poems with four, full page wood block illustrations; Green cloth & paper on boards; gold & black paper label on front cover; first issue of the first edition with "roams" on page 44, corrected in later issues to "romps"; without First Edition statement; All serious buyers are welcomed to make a reasonable BEST OFFER; Member of FL ABA. ; 64 pages Very Good DJ chipped along top edge
Seller: The Book Chaser (FABA), Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert.. West-Running Brook.. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Trade Edition. First State. A Fine copy in dark green cloth over dark green paper boards, inset gold illustration, in a Very Good dustwrapper, toning to spine, with tiny loss to crown. 64pp. Q17596
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition making it the second state of the first edition; Ahearn lists as 10b in the Frost bibliography with only 1,000 copies bright clean boards with rubbing to corners; cover label bright; nice clean copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Brown spine with blue text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has chipping to spine edges, tearing to spine, chipping to corners, sunning to spine, and tearing to edges. Rubbing to corners exposing boards. Textblock has writing in pencil on rear pastedown. Shelved Case 0. 1374572. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
FROST, ROBERT. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt, 1928.
Price: US$261.00 + shipping
Description: WEST-RUNNING BROOK, Henry Holt, 1928, first edition, some wear to the lower fore edge corner tips, some light rubbing to the spine extremities, else a bright near fine copy in a vg/vg+ dust-wrapper with some light chipping to both the extremities of the dust-wrapper spine and flap folds.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$300.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy of four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Frost's excellent 1928 collection. Includes four woodcuts by J.J. Lankes, and also the remarkable poem "Acquainted with the Night". The book is in the publisher's green cloth, with a small Lankes woodcut affixed to the front cover and with gilt embossed to the spine. There is wear to the corners and the spine ends, but otherwise the book is near fine. The jacket has loss to both spine ends, and to the corners, plus minor chipping to the edges. But, overall, a very nice copy.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
FROST, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Company (1928), New York, 1928.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Crane A10: Presumed Second State with "First Edition" printed on the copyright page. Illustrated by J. J. Lankes. Contains the title poem, "Spring Pools," and "Acquainted With the Night," among others. Laid in is an undated but contemporary letter on Holt letterhead from Leonard Blizard, a designer/typesetter with the publisher, to Dr. [Robert] Leslie, founder of The Composing Room, a leading typesetting firm of the time, and a mentor to many of the top designers of the period. The letter presents this copy of the book to Dr. Leslie with Blizard stating, "It is a 'First Printing' & we hope you will enjoy it." Crane based her bibliographic point of the "First Edition" statement on information provided by the earlier bibliographers Clymer and Green who state that "it seems more likely that copies without 'First Edition' were printed first and the oversight remedied only after the greater part of the edition had been distributed." Does this letter refute that? Alas, the possibility that the letter was laid into a different copy exists, and the language of the letter itself is not strong enough to confirm the dissent and provide a conclusive answer, but it certainly raises the question. A short tear and slight chipping to the upper front corner of the front endpaper. The dustwrapper has a short closed tear at the top rear edge of the spine with a small chip on the spine about an inch or so down. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: #736 of 1,000 signed, numbered, limited edition copies. Signed by author Robert Frost at the limitation page. Illustrated with woodcut plates behind tissue guards, signed by artist J. J. Lankes. Forest-green quarter-cloth with gilt spine titling, and illustrated papered boards in a pattern of falling leaves. Toning, faint foxing, and moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards; a few small faint spots of staining to cloth spine; spine rubbed, with gilt obscured but legible; light to moderate edgewear with fraying to fore-edge corners, and more lightly also to corners of spine tips and the headband. Spine square. Binding sound. Lightly foxed throughout, with heavier foxing to tissue guards. Interior else clean, with no prior owner's names, notes, or other markings. Photographs available upon request.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
FROST, ROBERT.. West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first state (lacking 'first edition' on the copyright page); very good in dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt, 1928.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, mixed issue, signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. Stated first edition on the title page (not indicative of first issue), but with "roams" typo on page 44 (which is indicative of first issue). Boards are very good with some rubbing to corners and spine, foil print on front cover has some oxidization spots. Internally book is about fine with inscribee's name on ffep. Green paper boards over tape spine, octavo, 64 pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.
Seller: The Great Catsby's Rare Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, limited and signed issue. Staining on the endpapers, else very good or better lacking the cardboard slipcase. Copy number 25 of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author, and with three Signed woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Printed at the Merrymount Press.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: frontis and 3 other woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes, 64p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 22cm. Jacket lacks bottom half of backstrip pannel, is split along front folds, and has and has a few other chips and bits of wear. Minor chipping at end of corner tips. SIGNED twice by Frost -- on title-page and beneath the poem "Hannibal" on page 47. Issue points: (1) no statement of edition; and (2) "roams" not "romps in last line on page 44.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook [Signed]. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by Author. Size: 8 7/8" x 5 7/8". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped green cloth spine with green paper over boards and a gold illustration on front board, fore-edge deckled, 64 pages, illustrated with woodcut illustrations. First edition, first issue without "1st printing" on copyright page, and with "Roams" in final line on page 44. Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost on front free end paper. Light wear at corners and spine ends. Protected in a clear mylar jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Poetry; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015783.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 1.2 green cloth with gilt letter title and maple-leaf patterned paper-covered boards, Top Edge Gilt. viii, 58 pp. with 4 signed prints by J.J. Lankes including frontis. A delightful copy lacking the cardboard slipcase and glassine jacket. Crane: "Though printed in the same year as the first [trade] edition by the same publisher, this edition is in an entirely different setting and format with different pagination." Illustrated with a frontispiece and three woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, each plate signed in pencil on the lower right edge of the plate. Printed by D.B. Updike's Merrymount Press in different type and format from the trade issue. VG+ with a tiny nick in the cloth on the front hinge near the top of the spine, about the size of Jefferson's chin on a nickle
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
FROST, ROBERT.. West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; limited issue; one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Frost; with plates signed by J.J. Lankes. This deluxe issue departed from the publisher's usual practice, employing an entirely different setting of type and format than in the trade edition. Some rubbing; very good. 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.. West-Running Brook.. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing, First State, with no edition statement on copyright page. A Fine copy in quarter green cloth, in a Near Fine gray dustwrapper, a couple of tiny nicks to crown. INSCRIBED by Frost [to a third party] and SIGNED [no date] at the top of the free front endpaper. 64pp. Q12934
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West Running Brook. Henry, Holt and Company, 1928.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket, illustrated with woodcuts, dustjacket has chip on the spine
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, 1928.
Price: US$716.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed to Rundell Wood by the author on title page, First state first edition with correct dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wear and chipping, sunned spine has a piece missing and a short tear, mylar wrapped. Dark gray paperboard have worn corners as does the green cloth spine, gilt print label is clean and bright. Marbled endpapers and pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding. Last sold by Bauman rare books.
Seller: Losaw Service, Lenox Dale, MA, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt, New York, 1928.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, presumed first state (Crane A10; without "First Edition" statement on copyright page and with "roams" on page 44, which was corrected in later issues to "romps"). Illustrated by J.J. Lankes. Recipient's bookplate on first leaf. Moderate to heavy edgewear mostly at the corners and spine ends, very good and otherwise bright. Signed "Robert Frost / 1932" on the front fly.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook (Author Signed). Henry Holt, 1928.
Price: US$797.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Frost on title page. Corners are worn as is the top and bottom of spine. Cover shows some rubs. Pages 26 and 27 have browning from newspaper article left between leaves. This book can be identified as a first printing by the error "roams" for "romps" on the last line of page 44, corrected in subsequent printings.This book of Frost poetry is from the personal collection of Jean Lee Latham and is doubled signed by her in addition to the Frost signature. Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution."He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont. Jean Lee Latham (April 19, 1902 - June 13, 1995) was a personal friend of Frost and they both had homes in the Miami, Florida Area. She was an American writer who specialized in biographies for children or young adults. She was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia, attended West Virginia Wesleyan College and received an A.B. in 1925. Extremely rare with both Frost's and Latham's signatures. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages; Signed by Collection of Signatures
Seller: ABookLegacy, Mike and Carol Smith, N. Ft. Myers, FL, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, 1928.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. INSCRIBED and dated by Frost on the title page. First Edition as indicated by the copyright date of 1928 on the copyright page with no mention of later printings. A nice, bright, square copy with only slight rubbing at the corners and spine ends. Dust jacket is very good with chipping along the edges, at spine ends and corners. Small pieces missing from top and bottom spine ends; and a small open tear on the top of the front panel. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Company (1928), New York, 1928.
Price: US$812.50 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards decorated with a pattern of maple leaves. Crane A10.1: "Though printed in the same year as the first [trade] edition by the same publisher, this edition is in an entirely different setting and format with different pagination." Illustrated with a frontispiece and three woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, each plate SIGNED by the artist in pencil. Copy #832 of 1000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Contains the title poem, "Spring Pools," and "Acquainted With the Night," among others. Near Fine, lacking the glassine and slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. WEST RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Co, New York, 1928.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: T.e.g., leaf-patterned paper-backed in green cloth. Number 102 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Frost. Printed by D.B. Updike's Merrymount Press in different type and format from the trade issue, and includes four signed woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. Edges very lightly worn, else fine. Attractive Michael McCurdy bookplate of previous owner laid in. The scarce slipcase is worn, but complete, the spine label toned, but also complete. Lacking the rare tissue wrapper.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert signed by author. West-Running Brook. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY, NEW YORK, NY, 1928.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free end paper, "Robert Frost, Amherst, 1929." Dark green paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Gilt title to spine. Gilt cover paste down with a black impress design on cover. Light book, shelf, edge wear and rubs. Front and back hinge crack. Book plate of previous owner on front paste down page. Marbled paste down and free end pages. Pages browned. DATE PUBLISHED: 1928 EDITION: FIRST 64
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt: NY, 1928.
Price: US$1144.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by J.J. Lankes, 9.25 x 6", cloth backed dec boards, 58pp, teg, handsome copy in slightly rubbed slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (#100) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. EACH ILLUSTRATION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt, New York, 1928.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, second issue with "first edition" statement present. About fine in near very good dustwrapper with some loss at the spine ends, particularly at the foot. Inscribed by Frost: "To find that the utmost reward / Of daring should be still to dare. Robert Frost. For Stanley S. Sevartley. April 3 1930."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert.. West-Running Brook.. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Issue. #137/1000 copies, SIGNED and numbered on a preliminary colophon leaf, bound in quarter dark green cloth over decorated paper covered boards (autumn leaves motif), top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, in clear unprinted glassine dustwrapper, in publisher's dark green paper covered slipcase. Fine. 58pp. Scarce in this condition. Q16961 Fine in hardcover, dustwrapper and publisher's slipcase
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Company (1928), New York, 1928.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards decorated with a pattern of maple leaves. Crane A10.1: "Though printed in the same year as the first [trade] edition by the same publisher, this edition is in an entirely different setting and format with different pagination." Illustrated with a frontispiece and three woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, each plate SIGNED by the artist in pencil. Copy #59 of 1000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Contains the title poem, "Spring Pools," and "Acquainted With the Night," among others. The scarce original glassine has a couple of small chips but is in very nice condition. Fine, bright copy in the original glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a little professional mending
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West Running Brook. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, second Issue with the words "First Edition" printed on the copyright page. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Robert Frost in South Shaftsbury, Vermont. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has some wear to the spine and edges. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with a small bookplate to the inside endpaper. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West Running Brook. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Issue without the first edition statement printed on the copyright page. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Robert Frost. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket has light wear to the spine and edges. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with the previous owner's name neatly written on the front endpaper. Overall, a wonderful presentation copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated by J. J. Lankes. First edition, first printing, first state, without an edition statement to the copyright page. Signed and inscribed by Frost: "Robert Frost/ Wesleyan/ 1929". Original publisher's paper-covered boards over green cloth; dust jacket lettered in green, ruled in red. About fine with slight rubbing to the spine ends; unclipped dust jacket with some wear and small chips at the corners and spine, spine lightly toned, else near fine. Crane A10. West-Running Brook is a collection of 39 poems, including "Spring Pools," "A Peck of Gold," "Once the Pacific," "Acquainted With the Night," "Canis Major," "A Passing Glimpse," "The Peaceful Shepherd," "The Flower," and "On Looking Up By Chance at the Constellations," among others. The poems are thematically divided into six sections: "I: Spring Pools," "II: Fiat Nox," "III: West-Running Brook," "IV: Sand Dunes," "V: Over Back," and "VI: My Native Simile." Throughout the text, Frost uses nature as allegory for human interactions and political themes. For example, the titular "West-Running Brook" involves a husband and wife conversing about a brook that runs west instead of east, which Frost uses as a symbol for the importance of contrast to achieve harmony in personal relationships. The text is illustrated with woodcuts by Lankes, and their rough beauty is perfectly paired with Frost's verse.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
FROST, Robert. WEST-RUNNING BROOK. Henry Holt and Company (1928), New York, 1928.
Price: US$1562.50 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards decorated with a pattern of maple leaves. Crane A10.1: "Though printed in the same year as the first [trade] edition by the same publisher, this edition is in an entirely different setting and format with different pagination." Illustrated with a frontispiece and three woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, each plate SIGNED by the artist in pencil. Copy #184 of 1000 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Contains the title poem, "Spring Pools," and "Acquainted With the Night," among others. A few scattered spots of foxing, mostly to the endpapers. The scarce original glassine has a couple of small chips but is in very nice condition. The slipcase has a neatly repaired split along the top edge. About Fine in the original glassine and slipcase
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1590.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HBDJ, 1928, STATED 1ST PRINTING, VG+/VG- DJ shows chipping on edges & RUB & WEAR ,TOP DJ SPINE SMALL THIN CHIP. and some scuffing on all sides WEAR. Has Green Cloth Spine PATTERNED BEIGE Cloth boards toned on edges and with shelf wear. Opposite Title pg lists 5 frosts bks starts with North of Boston ends with West-Running Brook. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Signed by Robert Frost, dated 1929 on front endpaper along with a gift inscription from former owner. What looks to be a fragment of another cover from a later edition pasted on half-title. Text toned but unmarked. Binding sound, front hinge slightly loose. BACK OF DJ MODERN POETS & POETRY FROST ,HOUSMAN ETC ENDS WITH BURTON E. STEVENSON, LITE WEAR FOX TO INTERIOR PGS, The Large Numbers of Readers & Admirers of Frost. Have Urged the Publishers to Revise His Volume.1st Published in 1923. So as to Include a Few More Favorites from the 3 Earlier Volumes & Some of Best Loved Lyrics. expanded version of the 1923 collection signed and dated by Frost on the fly leaf.
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West Running Brook. Henry Holt & Company, New York, NY, 1928.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928. This is a Hardcover 1st Edition copy of a poem collection by Robert Frost. It is signed by the author on the first page "Robert Frost Middletown 1929." The book itself is in excellent condition with only minor wear on the corners of the front and back cover and spine. There is no dust jacket. Though the book does not state 1st Edition, it has a misprint on the last line of page 44 (the word "roams") that was only printed in the first printing of the book.
Seller: Antiquarian Book Company, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West Running Brook. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing Signed and dated "Robert Frost, Lexington, 1948" along with a 10 cent Robert Frost postage stamp on front free end paper. Also with three pictorial bookplates on the front pastedown, two from William Dutton (signed) and one from Thelma Dutton. Both were longtime Los Angeles Booksellers. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in nice condition with the First issue point "roams" on the last line on page 44 and without the "First Edition" printed on the copyright page. A beautiful copy SIGNED by Robert Frost. We buy SIGNED Frost First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. West-Running Brook. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First trade edition, First Issue without the first edition statement printed on copyright page. This copy INSRIBED and SIGNED by frost on the title-page. This First Issue dustjacket has light wear to the spine and edges. The book is in wonderful shape. The binding is tight with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy with the ORIGINAL dustjacket SIGNED by Robert Frost.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
FROST Robert. West-Running Brook. , 1928.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt, [1928]. Octavo, original half green cloth, mounted cover label, marbled endpapers, uncut, original dust jacket. $4500.First edition, first issue, of Frosts fifth collection of verse, widely hailed as one of his greatest, boldly signed by the poet: "Robert Frost Wesleyan 1929."In addition to the title poem, this volume contains "Acquainted with the Night," "Spring Pools, "Tree at My Window" and "Once by the Pacific," among others. With four full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. "Welford D. Taylor, a prominent Lankes scholar, describes the appreciation that the poet and the printmaker had for each other's work: 'What had impressed each man was a recognition of the aesthetic and thematic values he shared with the othera "coincidence of taste," as Frost put it. Both based much of their work on rural subjects, employed understatement and symbol and explored the question of human significance in the over-all scheme of nature" (Vanderbilt University). First issue, without "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Also published the same year in a signed limited edition of 1000 copies. Crane A10. Book fine; scarce original dust just with shallow chipping to spine ends, a few short closed tears, mild toning to spine, two tiny holes to rear flap seam. A near-fine signed copy.
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.