21 LITERATURE “I Have Been One Acquainted With The Night” 24FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. New York, 1928. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. $4500 First edition, first issue, of Frost’s fifth collection of verse, widely hailed as one of his greatest, boldly signed by the poet: “Robert Frost Wesleyan 1929.” In addition to the title poem, this volume contains “Acquainted with the Night,” “Spring Pools, “Tree at My Window” and “Once by the Pacific,” among others. With four full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. “Welford D. Taylor, a prominent 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. Both based much of their work on rural subjects, employed understatement and symbol and explored the question of human significance in the over-all scheme of nature” (Vanderbilt University). Book fine; scarce original dust just with shallow chipping to spine ends, a few short closed tears, mild toning to spine, two tiny holes to rear flap seam. A near-fine signed copy. Robert Frost’s New Hampshire, Inscribed By Him With A Poem From The Book 25FROST, Robert. New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York, 1924. Octavo, original half green cloth, custom clamshell box. $6000 First edition, third printing, issued a year after the first printing, inscribed by Frost with lines from the poem “I Will Sing You One-O”: “The clock struck one/ In that grave one/ They spoke of the sun/ And moon and stars/ Saturn and Mars/ And Jupiter/ x x x x x/ Their solemn peals/ Were not their own/ They spoke for the clock/ With whose vast wheels/ Theirs interlock/ Robert Frost/ For Edwin T. Bowden Jr.’’. New Hampshire contains a number of Frost’s most famous poems: “Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” Frost, who lived much of his life in New Hampshire, said that he wrote the title poem in one night. Without original dust jacket. Interior fine, cloth with light wear, mainly to corners. A near-fine inscribed copy.
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