Lot 229
FROST, Robert (1874-1963). Come In. London: Jonathan Cape, 1944. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST WITH 5 LINES OF VERSE from “Ghost House.” ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY EDITOR LOUIS UNTERMEYER. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.
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FROST, Robert (1874-1963). Come In. London: Jonathan Cape, 1944.
8vo. Introduction and commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Publisher's blue cloth; original dust jacket. Provenance: Joseph Frost (presentation inscription).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST WITH 5 LINES OF VERSE from “Ghost House”: "I dwell in a lonely house I know / That vanished many a summer ago / And left no trace but the cellar walls ” And a cellar in which the daylight falls / And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow." ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY EDITOR LOUIS UNTERMEYER paraphrasing lines from Frost’s “Vastness I Should Steal Away”: "They would not find him / changed from him they knew / Only more sure of all he / thought was true." Crane A26.1. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.
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Property from the Frost Family Collection, New Hampshire
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