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FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Masque of Mercy. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1947. FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY FROST WITH A COUPLET, “The Secret Sits.”
Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Masque of Mercy. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1947. 

8vo. Publisher's blue cloth; original dust jacket (toning, stains, front free endpaper clipped to accompany inscription). Provenance: Joseph Frost (presentation inscription). 
 
FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST WITH A COUPLET, “The Secret Sits,”: ”"We dance round in a ring and suppose / But the secret sits in the middle and knows." Crane A31.1.

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Property from the Frost Family Collection, New Hampshire
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