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Item Details
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| Author: |
Frost, Robert |
| Title: |
New Hampshire |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Henry Holt & Co. |
| Date: |
1923 |
| Item # : |
189614 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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45 |
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| Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction |
| Sale Date |
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04/03/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1020 |
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| Description: |
| x, 113, [1] pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, including frontispiece. 8vo. Original green cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, golden paper cover label. First Trade Edition, first printing. |
| Interesting inscription, signed by Robert Frost on the front free endpaper following a gift inscription: "Marian Colby, once of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire from Arthur Colby also once of New Hampshire, Christmas 1923" in brown ink; then followed by Frost in blue ink: "To both the Colbys, once of Pinkerton, the friendliest best wishes of Robert Frost also once of Pinkerton." Considered Frost's most significant book, which won him his first Pulitzer Prize. One of 5350 copies in the first print-run. Related article clipping, laid in. Crane A6. |
| Condition: |
| Mild soiling, spine ends a bit rubbed, corners lightly bumped, a few faint scratches to boards; pictorial portrait of Frost from newsprint affixed on preliminary blank leaf causing slight offsetting to flyleaf; else very good. |
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