Lot 133
  • 133

Williams, William Carlos and Frost, Robert.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Collection of first editions:
Williams, William Carlos. The Tempers. Elkin Mathews, 1913, signed by the author on front endpaper, original boards, slight wear to binding; A Book of Poems. Al Que Quiere! Boston: the Four Seas Company, 1917, signed by the author on front endpaper, first binding of tan boards printed and decorated in black with author's name mis-spelt on spine; Sour Grapes. Boston: the Four Seas Company, 1921, original boards, spine-label printed in green; A Beginning on the Short Story. Yonkers, New York: the Alicat Bookshop Press, 1950, original wrappers--Frost, Robert. A Boy's Will. David Nutt, 1913, the author's first regularly published book, binding D in original cream linen-paper wrappers stamped and lettered in black; From Snow to Snow. New York: Heny Holt and Company, 1936, dust- jacket; The Lone Striker. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, no.8 of the Borzoi Chap Books, original paper covers; first editions, various sizes (7)

Condition

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Catalogue Note

A collection of early works by two of America's most important twentieth century poets: one of its greatest modernists (Williams) and one of its finest poetic craftsmen (Frost).