Frost, Robert | A Boy's Will, signed by the author

Frost, Robert

A Boy's Will. London: David Nutt, 1913

8vo (197 x 128mm.). Unopened; endleaves a little toned. Publisher's bronze pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt (Binding A); bumped at corners. Slipcase and chemise.

First edition, first issue, one of approximately 284 copies, signed and dated by Robert Frost, 1913.

Frost's first commercially published book, signed during his time living in England. Shortly after the book was published, he wrote to a friend, "I expect to do something to the present state of literature in America."

(See also lot 18.)

REFERENCE:

Crane A2:A; Olin p.20; Frost 100 14