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WITH WARM INSCRIPTION BY ROBERT FROST

Robert Frost: New Hampshire, first edition signed by FrostFROST, ROBERT.  

New Hampshire

first edition, signed and warmly inscribed by robert frost. The Pulitzer-Prize winning New Hampshire includes some of Frost’s finest and best-loved poems, such as “A Hillside Thaw”, “Fire and Ice”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, and “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”.

The Frost inscription, on the front free endpaper, appears beneath the following gift inscription from the original owner: “Marian Colby, once of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire from Arthur Colby also once of New Hampshire, Christmas 1923"”.  Frost has then written: “To both the Colbys, once of Pinkerton / the friendliest best wishes of / Robert Frost also once of Pinkerton”. Frost famously taught English at the Pinkerton Academy from 1906-1911.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923.  Octavo, original green cloth. Without (as usual) the extremely rare dust jacket. Newspaper clipping of photograph of Frost pasted neatly to front free endpaper. Light wear to binding; internally fine.  A rare and important collection, with a splendid inscription.  $2800.

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