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Robert Frost. The Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Halcyon House, 1939.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows moderate shelf wear with some staining. A name is written on inside front cover. Front end page has a tear near signature. All other pages are free of tears. Moisture stains can be found around edges of pages. Mostly noticeable from beginning of the book to about page 40. The rest of the pages contains some light stains here and there. Besides the stains, the pages are in good shape. Binding is tight. On the Content pages a total of 8 dashes can be found at the beginning of titles marked by the previous owner. The dust jacket shows heavy wear and staining. It is split in two at the crease of the front cover and spine. Potions are missing around the top and bottom edges.
Seller: Flipped Pages, Clifton Park, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. Collected Poems of Robert Frost [Signed]. Halcyon House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Halcyon House, 1939. Reprint. Signed by Robert Frost with Keene [New Hampshire] and dated 1943 at front free endpaper. Octavo. 436 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in black and gilt; top edge gilt; tan endpapers. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with large patch of loss to top of spine. Boards lightly toned along edges with some soiling to joints. Binding is sound. Remnants of tape to front pastedown and previous owner's bookplate (Ruth S. Rideout) to front free endpaper; interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Robert Frost. COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST SIGNED. Halcyon House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$4874.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Rubbing, few small open tears along panel edges. Light chipping at spine crown/heel. ; Signed by Robert Frost on FEP. ; Signed by Author.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$9375.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing of the Halcyon House edition, a near exact reproduction of the Holt edition published a month earlier but without the introduction. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "For Cornelius Weygandt" on the front endpaper with the final eight lines of the final poem in the book under the chapter AFTERTHOUGHT "A Missive Missal" in FROST'S HOLOGRAPH, here titled "From Twenty-five Thousand Years Ago--: "Far as we aim our signs to reach/Far as we often make them reach/There is an aeon limit set/Beyond which they are doomed to miss./Two souls may be to [sic] widely met./That sad-with-distance river beach/With mortal longing may beseech;/It cannot speak as far as this." Frost has omitted what would have been the third line of this section, "Across the soul-from-soul abyss." Weygandt, an English scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, first met Frost in 1915. He is described by Frost anonymously in his poem "New Hampshire" as the man "Who comes from Philadelphia every year/With a great flock of chickens of rare breeds. Weygandt describes his friendship with Frost in THE WHITE HILLS (pages 231-254).
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.