Lot 231
FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Sermon. New York: The Spiral Press, 1947. LIMITED EDITION. RARE EXAMPLE OF AN UNCORRECTED COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST to his cousin Joseph Frost. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THIS FROST RARITY.
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FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Sermon. New York: The Spiral Press, 1947.
8vo. Publisher's burgundy wove paper wraps with paper label (first page of Frost text partially disbound but present). Provenance: Joseph Frost (presentation inscription).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies, RARE EXAMPLE OF AN UNCORRECTED COPY, INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST to his cousin Joseph Frost: "To Joseph Frost from his cousin Robert Frost / Cambridge Mass November 3 1954." Frost delivered his sermon at the request of Rabbi Dr. Victor E. Reichert at the Rockdale Avenue Temple in Cincinnati on 10 October 1946. Though Crane claims that the publication was not authorized by Frost, Joseph Blumenthal states in Robert Frost and His Printers that copies were evenly distributed between Frost, Reichert, and Blumenthal, but that Frost requested that the edition be suppressed as "something in the sermon as printed would offend someone then still living." Crane A33. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF THIS FROST RARITY: We trace no copy of A Sermon at auction in at least 45 years.
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Property from the Frost Family Collection, New Hampshire
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