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Robert Frost. A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1945]....
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Description
Signed Limited Edition With a Fifteen-line Poem Written in Frost's Hand and Inscribed by the Poet
Robert Frost. A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1945].First edition, limited to 800 numbered copies of which this is number 128, signed by Frost on the limitation page and with a fair copy in Frost's hand of the entire poem One Step Backward Taken on the blank page preceding the limitation page. He has additionally signed it "To Peter Thurston Poor" and notated it, "Cambridge 1945.". Octavo. 30 pages.
Publisher's tan quarter-cloth with brown boards and gold stamping. Boards have minor rubbing with darkening to the edges. Foxing present on endpapers. A very good copy.
Laid in is a playbill, dated August 2, 1946 from the Bread Loaf Little Theatre for the production, An Evening of Robert Frost. Frost taught at the Bread Loaf School of English of Middlebury College in Vermont.
Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2008
16th-18th
Thursday-Saturday
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