Lot 47
  • 47

Frost, Robert

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Frost, Robert
  • A Boy's Will. New York: Henry Holt, 1915
  • ink, paper
8vo (7 5/8 x 5 in.; 193 x 127 mm, partially unopened).  Publisher's gilt-stamped blue buckram; spine darkened, wear at spine-ends and corners.

Provenance

Elizabeth and Ten Eyck Perry (presentation inscription on front free endpaper)

Literature

Crane A2.1

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

First American edition, second printing, of Frost's first book.
Presentation copy, inscribed and signed with the eight-line poem "A Minor Bird"
for Elizabeth and Ten Eyck Perry.