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Lot 83

FROST, Robert (1874?1963). New Hampshire. New York: Henry H...

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FROST, Robert (1874?1963). New Hampshire. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. 8vo. 4 woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Original publisher?s gilt?decorated black cloth over beveled boards (few spots of pale spotting to covers, else fine). LIMITED EDITION, number 152 of 350 copies SIGNED BY FROST on limitation. Considered to be Frost?s most significant work, earning him his first Pulitzer Prize. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST TO HIS FRIEND STANLEY SWARTLEY. Stanley Simpson Swartley (1884?1963) was an English professor and author at Allegheny College where Frost often read his poems in the 1920s. Swartley?s most notable works include A Study of the Areopagitica of John Milton (1909), The Life and Poetry of John Cutts (1917), and Aids to Good English (1933). Crane A6.