Lot 228
FROST, Robert. Come In and Other Poems. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1943. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY FROST WITH 4 LINES OF VERSE, ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY EDITOR LOUIS UNTERMEYER. A SUPERB ASSOCATION COPY.
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FROST, Robert (1874-1963). Come In and Other Poems. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1943.
8vo. Illustrations by John O'Hara Cosgrave II with commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Publisher's beige cloth; original dust jacket (toning, ink stain to front panel). Provenance: Joseph Frost (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST WITH FOUR LINES OF VERSE, a slightly altered form of his poem “Our Singing Strength”: "As it was in Hanover, New Hampshire where Joseph visited me April 20 1947 / It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm / The snow could find no landing place to form / Hordes asked themselves to make it wet and cold / And still they failed of any lasting hold." ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY EDITOR LOUIS UNTERMEYER: "&, in memoriam." Crane A26. A SUPERB ASSOCATION COPY.
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Property from the Frost Family Collection, New Hampshire
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