Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 148

Price Realized: $ 422
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
FROST, ROBERT. A Boy's Will. 8vo, publisher's blue linen cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, spine darkened with short frays to head and foot, few scuff marks; ownership signatures to front pastedown and free endpaper, offsetting from tipped-in ALS. first american edition, first printing, with "Aind" uncorrected on last line p. 14. New York: Henry Holt, 1915

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with-Tipped-in ALS by Frost on front free endpaper from Franconia, N.H., dated February 12, 1916, addressed to "Mrs. Hopkins," declining with regret an invitation to attend a party she is hosting in honor of John Masefield. It is likely the occasion coincided with Masefield's first lecture-tour of America. Crane A2.1.