May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
FROST, ROBERT. A Boy's Will. 8vo, publisher's binding D in cream wrappers stamped in black without borders and with cover flower containing 4 petals (8 on earlier issues), excellent example. first edition, second issue with "Printed in Great Britain" stamped on title verso; preserved in cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. London: David Nutt, 1913

Additional Details

presentation copy, inscribed "One had to be versed in country things / Robert Frost / For Crosby Gaige" on title-page. Gaige was a theatrical producer, writer and publisher, who under his own imprint issued James Joyce's Finnegans Wake fragment Anna Livia Plurabelle in 1928. Frost's first commercially published book, one of 135 copies, though limitation not stated. Robert Frost, Author Price Guides, Dickerson, MD: 2004. APG 2e.