FROST, Robert.
West-Running Brook.
New York: Henry Holt and Company , 1928.
$400.00
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"As if regret were in it and were sacred": Robert Frost's West-Running Brook; signed by him on a tipped in note
First edition, second state of Frost's classic collection with the 'First Edition' statement on the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with four full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. Signed by the poet on a tipped in note affixed to the half-title page, "Sincerely yours Robert Frost." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
In addition to the title poem West-Running Brook, this work contains “Acquainted with the Night,” “Spring Pools" and “Tree at My Window,” among others. With four full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. “Welford D. Taylor, a Lankes scholar, describes the appreciation that the poet and the printmaker had for each other’s work: "What had impressed each man was a recognition of the aesthetic and thematic values he shared with the other—a “coincidence of taste,” as Frost put it” (Vanderbilt University).
West-Running Brook.
$400.00
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