May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 161

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FROST, ROBERT. A Boy's Will. 8vo, publisher's blue linen cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, spine darkened with gilt dulled, some rubbing to spine tips and corners with light exposure. New York: Henry Holt, 1915

Additional Details

first american edition, second state, with "Aind" corrected on last line p. 14. signed by frost and dated june 1926, and inscribed by him with the first stanza of the last poem in the book, "Reluctance": "Out through the fields and the woods/And over the walls I have wended/I have climbed the hills of view/And looked at the world and descended/I have come by the highway home/And lo it is ended." Crane A2.1.