May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 358

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
FROST, ROBERT. Two items: Autograph Manuscript Signed * Frost. Neither Out Far Nor In Deep. Signed and Inscribed. The manuscript, fair copy of his poem "It Is Almost the Year Two Thousand." 1 page, 8vo; minor cockling. The book, on the front free endpaper: "To Edwin Halbruner / certainly one of my / two best that day / R.F." 16mo, wrappers; faint foxing affecting inscription. With the original envelope. (MRS) Np, nd; "Christmas 1935"; inscription: Np, [1935]

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"It is Almost the Year Two Thousand / To start the world of old / We had one age of gold / Not labored out of mines, / And some say there are signs, / The second such has come, / The true Millennium, / The final golden glow / To end it. . . ."