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Robert Frost. Collected Poems of Robert Frost. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1930].8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt; original dust jacket.
FIRST TRADE EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR WITH SIX LINES OF VERSE, THE FINAL STANZA OF "RELUCTANCE" (included in the present work), on the frontispiece verso: "Ah when to the heart of man / Was it ever less than a treason / To go with the drift of things / To yield with a grace to reason / And bow and accept the end / Of a love or a season / Robert Frost / For Milton J. Lesser / July 1931."
Condition: Slight touch of edgewear to cloth; front hinge cracked before frontispiece. Dust jacket defective with most of spine panel detached, some chipping and edgewear, some tape repairs on verso along folds.
References: Crane A14.1.
Provenance: Milton J. Lesser (presentation inscription; and his bookplate); acquired from House of El Dieff, Inc., New York, in 1968. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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