FROST ROBERT North of Boston

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FROST, ROBERT. North of Boston. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, spine darkened, light mottling and age-toning; ownership inscription on front free endpaper; author photo previously tape-mounted opposite half-title laid-in, with tape residue and light offsetting. New York: Henry Holt, 1915

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Second edition, later printing. with an 8-line autograph poem signed, being an early version of "nothing gold can stay." The final version of the poem was published in New Hampshire (1923), and remains one of the most well-known of Frost's verses. The version inscribed in the present copy reads, in full: "Nature's first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold. / Her early leaves are flowers; / But only so for hours; / Then leaves subside to leaves. / In autumn she achieves / A still more golden blaze / But nothing golden stays." The revision from this to the final version is the subject of much Frost criticism (cf. The Robert Frost Encyclopedia, pp 238-41).