Frost, Robert. A Masque of Reason. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1945.

Price: US$425.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, 23pp. Navy blue cloth, title in gilt spine. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint toning to some leaves. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, a few chips and short closed tears to top edge. A near fine piece. (Crane A27.1) Signed on the front free endpaper: "Robert Frost / Albany 1947." Robert Frost (1874-1963) was an American poet. He was the recipient of four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, the Congressional Gold Medal, and was named the poet laureate of Vermont in 1961. He won Pulitzer Prizes for the following works: New Hampshire: A Poem With Notes and Grace Notes, Collected Poems, A Further Range and A Witness Tree.

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Frost, Robert. Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1945.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: Later printing. Frontispiece portrait. 436 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author: "To Bob Scheel/ from/ Robert Frost/ Kenyon Oct 6 1946." For this edition Frost wrote a preface, "The Figure a Poem Makes," an essay which is surely his best-known prose composition. Crane A23 (first edition); Lathem 46 Original beige cloth. Minor soiling, small stain on upper cover Frontispiece portrait. 436 pp. 1 vols. 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.