May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
FROST, ROBERT. North of Boston. Frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 cloth over green boards, light rubbing to extremities; recipient's bookplate to front pastedown. Later edition, inscribed copy with six lines of verse from The Black Cottage: "For dear me why abandon a belief / Merely because it ceases to be true. / Cling to it long enough and not a doubt / It will turn true again, for so it goes. / Most of the change we think we see in life / Is due to truths being in and out of favor" (p. 54 / Robert Frost / For Lesley Taylor / April 1927." New York: Henry Holt, 1926