FROST ROBERT A Boys Will

Sale 2143 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 4,080

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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

ONE OF ONLY 30 RARE VARIANTS FROST, ROBERT. A Boy's Will. 8vo, cream wrappers printed in black. First Edition, second issue, binding C. Bound for Simpkin and Marshall, 1922. London: David Nutt, 1913

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one of only 30 extremely rare variant copies. Only 100 copies of this variant binding were created. 30 were kept in England while the remaining 70 were stamped on page IV "Printed in Great Britain" and shipped to America for sale (see Thompson: Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, page 587). Inscribed and Signed by John Haines to Miss A. M. Pollard and with an ALS to her concerning the book's printing, laid in. Haines, an English barrister and amateur botanist was a friend of Frost. He helped the author rescue the remaining copies and sheets of A Boy's Will after the Nutt bankruptcy in 1921. Haines's letter confirms that this volume is one of the few copies left with him, after he had bought all the remaining sheets from Simpkin and Marshall and dispatched them to America. He states that the copy was bound by Simpkin and Marshall themselves after Nutt went bankrupt. He further notes that it is in the third issue binding (as per Clymer & Green) and are "very scarce and eminently saleable as Mr. P[ercy] H. Muir would tell you." Single 8vo page, nd, on Haines & Sumner letterhead. See Frost's letter to Haines in Thompson, Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph 1915-1938, page 587.