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Item Details
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| Author: |
Frost, Robert |
| Title: |
Selected Poems [with inscribed original poem Once by the Pacific] |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Henry Holt & Co. |
| Date: |
[1926] |
| Item # : |
189800 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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46 |
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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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$ 2160 |
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| Description: |
| x, 143 pp. 7½x5, black cloth-backed gilt-patterned green boards, spine lettered in gilt, housed in custom ¼ brown morocco & marbled boards drop-back clamshell box with gilt-lettered spine. Later printing. |
| Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost for Sue Grundy Bonner with a 14-line autograph poem, titled in Frost's hand as 'Fiat Nox' (but published under the title 'Once by the Pacific'), in brown ink, all on the front free endpaper. |
| Condition: |
| Spine a bit sunned, light shelf wear, slight color retouching to corners; front hinge expertly repaired; very good or better. Rarely do full inscribed poems of this length made available for sale; an important a rich piece of Americana. |
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