Robert Frost
A Boy’s Will
David Nutt
1913
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A first edition, first issue of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will.
- Robert Frost (American).
- London: David Nutt, 1913.
- Octavo.
- Bound in the publisher’s bronze pebbled cloth.
Frost's first published book in the earliest ‘A’ binding, one of around 350 copies. Frost wrote A Boy's Will whilst living with his family in Beaconsfield, it would be published in America in 1915 and was favorably reviewed by Ezra Pound in Poetry. Frost was nearly 40 at the time and had visited England in the hope that his poetry would be better understood and received, which it was. On the strength of this collection’s success here and the outbreak of war in Europe, Frost returned to the U.S. and a rising career. Poems include; The Tuft of Flowers; My Butterfly; Spoils of the Dead; Going for Water; etc., thirty-two poems in all.
Condition Report
GoodA few random spots.
Pencil ownership inscription dated 1914 to front free endpaper and scholarly notes to rear fly-leaf in the same hand (pencil), dated 13.III.14.
Some light fading to spine and covers.
Minor dent to spine.
Spine ends and corners a little bumped.
Some signs of age and handling.
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