A-WISHING WELL
New York: Spiral Press, 1959. Thomas Nason. First edition. Paperback. Stapled illustrated wrappers; 32mo. Christmas card. One of 20 imprints: the Melcher's. Wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason. Soiled, but good. Crane B31.
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AFORESAID
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Green linen stamped in gilt, in publishers slipcase with paper label; 8vo. Limited edition of 650 numbered copies signed by the poet. The selection of poems made by Frost, published on his 80th birthday. The.....
AMHERST GRADUATES' QUARTERLY
Amherst, MA: Amherst, August 1948. Number 148. Paperback. Contains the first appearance of Robert Frost's address to the alumni, "Speaking of Loyalty" [Crane D12]. A photo of Frost featured on the front cover, with photographs of the event.. Most of the issue does not relate to the poet, although his.....
THE ATLANTIC
Boston: September, 1938. Vol. 162, No.3. Paperback. Two poems from Frost: "Carpe Diem" and "Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks in Length". Edgeworn and spine-faded, but generally very good.
A BOY'S WILL
London: David Nutt, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. First issue, Binding B: cream vellum-paper boards stamped in red; 50 pp. One of 350 or fewer copies of the first issue were published by the publisher before bankruptcy in 1921; binding B - what remained of the first issue were bound circa.....
COMPLETE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1949. Later printing. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Inscribed to the poet Jane Cooper. "Robert Frost to Jane Cooper with regards Sarah Lawrence. April 18, 62." Cooper's name is in her autograph hand; Frost wrote around it. With Cooper's light pencil ticks and reading notes.....
AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF ROBERT FROST
Meadville, PA: Allegheny College, May 5 -7, 1938. First edition thus. Paperback. Reprints his poem "To a Thawing Wind", a short early letter, with an early bibliography in conjunction with the poet's third appearance at Allegheny College. 12 pp. in stapled, printed wrappers. Fine and scarce.
A FURTHER RANGE
New York: Henry Holt, 1936. Book of the Month Club Edition. Hardcover. Book of the Month Club (Crane/Barrett A21.1). Signed and dated 1937 by the poet on the second front free end paper. This is the BOMC (the first time a volume of poetry was selected for the club) edition.....
A FURTHER RANGE
New York: Henry Holt, 1936. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Oatmeal cloth w/ leather label titled in gilt; slipcase; large 8vo. Signed Limited edition number 627 of 803, which preceded all other editions. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Bookseller ticket (Barr's Books, PA) on rear end paper.....
HARD NOT TO BE KING
New York: House of Books, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Blue linen, stamped in gilt; with unprinted tissue dust jacket; 12mo. [19pp.] . One of 300 signed and numbered copies (this no. 43). Spine lightly sunned; the tissue lightly spine-toned with minor wear (a few chips at spine). A lovely example.....
"A Hillside Thaw"
New York: The Poet's Guild, n. d. [after 1923]. First Separate Edition. no binding. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 5 by 7 3/8 inches. Near Fine. A more than acceptable copy of a scarce work reprinted from NEW HAMPSHIRE. One of four Frost poems printed as.....
"A Hillside Thaw"
New York: The Poet's Guild, n. d. [after 1923]. First Separate Edition. no binding. A single sheet, printed on both sides, and measuring 5 by 7 3/8 inches. A more than acceptable copy of a scarce work reprinted from NEW HAMPSHIRE. One of four Frost poems printed as "The Unbound.....
A MASQUE OF MERCY
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 39 pp. Bookseller ticket (Gilberts of Hollywood) on fep, else near fine in a spine-toned dust jacket with very light wear at the corners and two short closed tears.
A MASQUE OF REASON
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1945. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Blue cloth in dj. Signed by the poet and inscribed "to Ernest Arny(?)/from his friend/Robert Frost. Very good copy in like dust jacket, with modest wear and chipping at the extremities, one short tear. Preceded by, but signed.....
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TROUBADOUR Vol. XVI, No. 8
Concord, NH: Troubadour, November 1946. First edition. Paperback. The "Robert Frost Issue", printing for the first time Frost's poem "Our Getaway", entitled in his Collected Poems as "Why Wait for Science". Mostly essays about Frost by those who knew him well with numerous reproduced photos. 32 pages, Very good in.....
NORTH OF BOSTON
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray-brown boards backed in brown cloth, paper labels; 8vo. Binding B: One of 150 copies with cancellans [Holt] title-leaf from sheets ordered from England(from the original 1000 sheets printed), bound in the US. This the first publication of Robert Frost.....
Notes by Robert Frost on His Life and Early Writings
Amherst, MA: Friends of the Amherst College Library, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn card covers in pale green printed wrappers; 12mo. 12 pp. B&W Frontispiece photo of Frost. Designed by Edith McKeon Abbott. Set in Monotype Bulmer and printed in an edition of 3000 at Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, August.....
SELECTED POEMS
New New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Cloth-backed patterned boards in dust jacket; 8vo. A selection from the poet's first three volumes with one new poem "The Runaway". One of 1025 copies. Bottom front tips worn, bottom edges stained (likely an attempt to hide.....
A SERMON BY ROBERT FROST; Spoken on the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles at the Rockdale Avenue Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday Morning, October 10, 1946.
New York: Spiral Press, 1947. First edition. Paperback. Red stapled wrappers and gray paper label; thin 8vo. One of a reported 500 copies printed for Dr. Victor E. Reichart. Reichart was the Rabbi at the temple; he had Frost's unplanned talk recorded, this publication taken from that recording without the.....
STEEPLE BUSH
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Spine slant, else fine in a dust jacket with extremities toned and a couple of very short tears.
WEST RUNNING BROOK
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. T.e.g., leaf-patterned paper-backed in green cloth. Number 102 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Frost. Printed by D.B. Updike's Merrymount Press in different type and format from the trade issue, and includes four signed woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. Edges.....
WHAT BECAME OF NEW ENGLAND?
Oberlin: Oberlin College, May,1938. First Separate Edition. no binding. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. A commencement address of June 8, 1937 by Frost off printed from the Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Fine. Not in Crane.
"What Became of New England?"
Oberlin: Oberlin College, May,1938. First Separate Edition. Paperback. Single sheet folded once to make four pages. A commencement address of June 8, 1937 by Frost off printed from the Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Near Fine. Not in Crane.
A WITNESS TREE
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Cloth-backed dec. boards. No. 498 of 735 copies numbered and signed by the author. A Pulitzer Prize-winning collection with "The Silken Tent" and "The Gift Outright" among other significant 20th C. poems. A fine, immaculate.....
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 645 pp., with index; many of Frosts' letters in facsimile. Thompson would publish the first volume of his monumental and controversial three volume biography of Frost two years later. Fine in a very good dust jacket, with one short.....