The Manhattan Rare Book Company

1050 Second Ave, Gallery 50E
New York, NY 10022

tel: 212.326.8907  fax: 212.355.4403
   email: info@manhattanrarebooks.com

Science/Technology/Medicine

Literature/Modern Firsts

Americana/History/Travel

Art/Illustrated/Children's

home | new acquisitions | receive a catalog

First edition of Robert Frost's Collected Poems,
a beautiful copy in the rare dust jacket,
signed and inscribed by Frost with a line of verse

FROST, Robert. Collected Poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1930. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. $4500.

First trade edition, presentation copy inscribed by Frost on title: "One had to be versed in country things / Robert Frost / For Ralph Doud." The inscription is the penultimate line of Frost's poem "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things." Frost's Pulitzer Prize winning collection contains all the poems from North of Boston, New Hampshire, and A Further Range, plus selections from A Boy's Will, Mountain Interval, and West-Running Brook. One of 3870 copies printed. Crane A14.1. In outstanding condition: a fine copy. Exceptionally scarce in this condition with the rare dust jacket.

 

 

Science/Technology/Medicine

Literature/Modern Firsts

Americana/History/Travel

Art/Illustrated/Children's