FROST, Robert.
A Boy's Will.
"I dwell in a lonely house I know, that vanished many summer ago": First edition of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will; signed and dated by him
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915.
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Item Number: RRB-147558
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First American edition of Frost's first published work. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, gilt title to the front panel. Boldly signed and dated by the poet on front free endpaper, "Robert Frost Wesleyan December 1926." Ownership signature on front pastedown of Richard Brooks in pencil. In very good condition. A charming example.
Frost's first commercially published book of poems, A Boy's Will was first published in 1913 by David Nutt in London, with a dedication to Frost's wife, Elinor. Its first American edition would come two years later, in 1915, through Henry Holt and Company. Like much of Frost's work, the poems in A Boy's Will thematically associate with rural life, nature, philosophy, and individuality, while also alluding to earlier poets including Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, and William Wordsworth. Despite the first section of poems having a theme of retreating from society, then, Frost does not retreat from his literary precursors and, instead, tries to find his place among them.
A Boy's Will.
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