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Frost, Robert | A Boy's Will, signed by the author

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June 26, 02:59 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Frost, Robert

A Boy's Will. London: David Nutt, 1913


8vo (197 x 128mm.). Unopened; endleaves a little toned. Publisher's bronz🐽e 🦂pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt (Binding A); bumped at corners. Slipcase and chemise.


First edition, first issue, one of approximately 284 copies, signed and dated by Robert Frost, 1913.


Frost's first commercially published book, signed during hi𒈔s time living in Enꦜgland. Shortly after the book was published, he wrote to a friend, "I expect to do something to the present state of literature in America."


(See also lot 18.)


REFERENCE:

Crane A2:A; Olin p.20; Frost 100 14