Frost North Of Boston

FROST, Robert: NORTH OF BOSTON with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED and a 14-line MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENT OF "BIRCHES" by Frost, New York Henry Holt 1915 ; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; sig.

Third Edition Tipped to the front pastedown is an @50 word AUTOGRAPH LETTER dated 12 May 1923 from South Shaftsbury, Vermont, SIGNED by the author, mentioning this book and how Frost would be happy to sign it if it is sent to his Ann Arbor address. On the first blank is a fourteen-line HOLOGRAPH FRAGMENT of Frost's famous poem "Birches," also SIGNED by the author with the dedication beneath his signature "To Maurice Frink," the same person to whom the letter is addressed. The fragment is the heart of the 59-line poem, first published in 1916 in MOUNTAIN INTERVAL, the book that followed NORTH OF BOSTON. It begins: "So was I once myself a swinger of birches" and concludes "I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree." An absolutely superb example of a holograph poem by Frost in a book, one of the best that we have encountered. The front free endpaper, which has Frink's 1915 markings along with a much later Christmas presentation in another hand, is detached and laid in, which allows the book, when opened, to have the letter facing the poem. Gilt bright, very minor rubbing to spine tips. The scarce dustwrapper has the correct spelling of "faint" on the front. Some mild chipping to the head of the spine just affecting "North" in the title and slightly extending to both panels. cloth Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper

[SW: Rare; Modern Firsts; Original Poetry; Modern Poetry]

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FROST, Robert: NORTH OF BOSTON Inscribed to Sidney Cox, London David Nutt (1914) ; sig.; 1. Ed.

First Edition Crane A3: Binding A, one of 350 copies in this first binding of a total of 1000 printed of Frost's second book. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet at a very early date on the front endpaper "Sidney Cox/from/Robert Frost/Ryton Dymock/England/October 1914." The lifelong friendship between Frost and Cox began while Frost was teaching at the New Hampshire State Normal School in the academic year 1911 - 1912, before the publication of Frost's first book. Cox described their friendship in his own book, A SWINGER OF BIRCHES: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FROST. Frost's several months living in the old parish of Dymock was shared in part with the poet Edward Thomas whom Frost considered the closest friend he ever had. Thomas compared Frost to Wordsworth in one of his several favorable reviews of NORTH OF BOSTON. England's entry into the First World War hastened Frost's return to America early in 1915 with Thomas volunteering for service later that year and in 1917 giving his life in battle. According to THE OXFORD COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY IN ENGLISH, Frost told Cox in 1914, the very year of this inscription, that the true poet's pleasure lay in making "his own words as he goes" rather than depending upon words whose meanings were fixed: "We write of things we see and we write in accents we hear. Thus we gather both our material and our technique with the imagination from life; and our technique becomes as much material as material itself." An important copy of this early and essential collection by Frost. cloth Near Fine, lacking the scarce dustwrapper

[SW: Modern Poetry; Association Copy; Rare]

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Frost, Robert: Selected Poems of Robert Frost, Holt, Rinehart, Winston June, 1963 ISBN: 0030120608
,,The poems in this volume are selected from Frost's first three books: A Boy's Will, North of Boston & Mountain Interval. Here are the great poems of rural life & universal wisdom, including "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "Mowing," more.

Condition;Good ,Trade Paperback ,The poems in this volume are selected from Frost's first three books: A Boy's Will, North of Boston & Mountain Interval. Here are the great poems of rural life & universal wisdom, including "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," "Mowing," more.

[SW: Great Poets Series]

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Robert Frost: Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston (Signet Classics (Paperback)) Signet Classics 04/01/2001 ISBN: 0451527879

Here in one volume are Robert Frost's first two collections of poetry. A Boy's Will (1913) is the book that introduced readers to Frost's unmistakable poetic voice, and North of... Brandneue, Perfekte Bedingungen für Überseesendungen Innerhalb 30 Liefertagen. Brand New, Perfect Condition. May Ship From Overseas, Allow 30 Days Delivery Time. Format: Paperback Condition: New

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