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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.
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