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FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT FROST’S NEW HAMPSHIRE, IN SCARCE DUST JACKET, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY FROST

FROST, Robert. New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York: Henry Holt, 1923. Octavo, original half green cloth, gold paper label, marbled endpapers, original dust jacket.

First trade edition, inscribed: “Best wishes. For Constance Kelton. From Robert Frost.”

New Hampshire contains a number of Frost’s most famous poems-“Fire and Ice,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” With four woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. A signed limited edition was published simultaneously. This is perhaps the most difficult of Frost’s books to find in a nice dust jacket. Crane A6.

Book about-fine with only lightest edge-wear, gilt bright. Scarce dust jacket with price neatly removed from lightly toned spine, modest soiling and two small closed tears. A desirable inscribed copy.