![]() Brown cloth with gilt lettering, 349 pages, no dustjacket. Stated third printing, 1930, with three handwritten verses by Frost, two signed and one with initials, plus two photographs. ![]() A unique, important work by the poet of realistic depictions of rural life and the master of American colloquial speech. It is NOT price-clipped, without restoration. Pages are very clean, dust jacket with upper right corner chip and edge-wear, light soiling. The book is free of any other markings or writing. Provenance: Bookplate of the John Adams Lowe Collection of American Poetry 1936 Rochester Public Library. The poems were selected from "A Boy''s Will," "North of Boston," "Mountain Interval," "New Hampshire" and "West-Running Brook." The book is signed by Robert Frost along with the aphorism "He says the best way out is always through," written below the title. In 1923 Frost dedicated his Selected Poems to Helen Thomas "In Memory of Edward Thomas." Thomas was a writer who had only discovered his true voice as a poet just before his tragic death at the Front, he had been encouraged to write poetry by his good friend Robert Frost. ![]()
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