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FROST, Robert. West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928.
8o. Woodcut illustrations. Original cloth-backed boards, gold paper label on front cover, spine gilt-lettered; printed dust jacket (some chipping along edges and at ends of spine panel).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, INSCRIBED BY FROST with a line from his poem "West-Running Brook" on the title-page: "As if regret were in it and were sacred. Robert Frost" with Frost's pencilled notation underneath indicating where the quote can be found in the text: "middle of p. 37." Crane A10.
[With:]
FROST. New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York: Henry Holt, 1924.
8o. Woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. Original cloth-backed green boards, gold paper label on front cover, spine gilt-lettered (some minor wear at corners and spine ends). Provenance: Curtis Hidden Page (1870-1946), American writer and educator (presentation inscription from Frost).
Later printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST on the front flyleaf: "Curtis Hidden Page: One had to be versed in New Hampshire things even as you and I Robert Frost." Crane A6. (2)
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, INSCRIBED BY FROST with a line from his poem "West-Running Brook" on the title-page: "As if regret were in it and were sacred. Robert Frost" with Frost's pencilled notation underneath indicating where the quote can be found in the text: "middle of p. 37." Crane A10.
[With:]
FROST. New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York: Henry Holt, 1924.
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Later printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST on the front flyleaf: "Curtis Hidden Page: One had to be versed in New Hampshire things even as you and I Robert Frost." Crane A6. (2)
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