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FROST, Robert. THE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST. Modern Library (1946), New York, 1946.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Reprint of this popular collection which features Frost's essay on poetry, "The Constant Symbol," as an introduction. This copy has been INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page. Hinges somewhat clumsily repaired; Good, lacking the dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. Signed & inscribed & dated, 1953 by Robert Frost: 'Robert Frost to Georgia Belle Christopher, 1953'. In tattered & torn jacket with heavy chipping & tears, especially across top edge. Spine darkened. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name written in ink across top edge of front jacket panel and again on ffep. End pages with Kent design. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering framed within black rectangles on spine and front board. Pages 336 through 366 folded/creased upper right corner. Top textblock edge tinted black. Binding sound. [445 pages plus seven page list of then avialble ML titles.]
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Frost, Robert. The Poems Of Robert Frost. Random House Inc, New York, 1946.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Modern Library Edition. 1946. Signed by Robert Frost to Arthur Lazere and dated 1954. Green boards, spine, and endpages are Fine. The gilt on the front board and spine are pristine. No Remainder mark. Not Ex-Lib. The pages are clean, being without markings or folds (save tiny folds to last pages). The dustjacket is clean, with a touches to the extremities, and minor chip/tear at the top of the spine. Jacket is clipped. Brodart protected to minimize wear. 445 pages, with ads. With an introductory Essay by the author, "The Constant Symbol". A classic collection of Frost poems; from North of Boston, New Hampshire, A Further Range, as well as selections from A Boy's Will.
Seller: Next Chapter Books SC, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$8125.00 + shipping
Description: Reprint of this popular collection which features Frost's essay on poetry, "The Constant Symbol," as an introduction. This copy has been SIGNED by the author and INSCRIBED to minor poet and folklorist Addison Barker with the complete eight-line poem "The Pasture," the first poem in the book, in the poet's hand on the page opposite the title page. The recipient's signature is on the front endpaper above a pasted newspaper photograph of Frost, and Barker has noted on the title page the date Frost wrote the poem in the book: 25 January 1950. Barker has an interesting connection to Frost in that in 1951 he published the discovery of the very first appearance in print (BLUM'S FARMER'S AND PLANTER'S ALMANAC FOR 1850) of the proverb "Good fences make good neighbors." Barker tried to find an earlier, New England appearance before publication in the North Carolina almanac but was unsuccessful. There were previous variants on the proverb, but none exactly as Frost used it. Even without this academic aside to an entirely different poem, "The Pasture" is one of Frost's best known poems and not commonly encountered, complete, in manuscript form. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.