Item #13042423 A Boy's Will. Robert Frost.
A Boy's Will
A Boy's Will
A Boy's Will
A Boy's Will

A Boy's Will

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, duodecimo size, 63 pp. Very good +. Item #13042423

Robert Frost's (1874-1963) first book, "A Boy's Will" is a collection of lyrical, autobiographical poems of Frost's early life; the collection ties thematically with Frost's later work in its descriptions of nature and rural settings. The book takes its title from a line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "My Lost Youth": "A boy's will is the wind's will / And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts" (n. b., quote from the Poetry Foundation website).

___DESCRIPTION: Full blue linen with gilt rectangle on the front board enclosing the title and author lettered in gilt, gilt lettering and rules on the spine, fore- and bottome edges uncut, publisher's device on title page; duodecimo size (7.75" by 5.25"), pagination: [i-vi] vii-ix [10] 11-63 [64]. With first issue point "Aind" instead of "And" on the last line of page 14. The book came to us in a glassine wrapper, not the publisher's original.

___CONDITION: Better than very good, with clean boards, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner marking; some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the corners, top corners are gently bumped, some sunning to the spine and to the fore-edges of the boards, small crease and closed tear to the top right margin of p. 21, and light toning to the endpapers and first and last flyleaves. The glassine wrapper is very good, clean overall, with light edge wear and small chips to the top edge, and some creases to the front panel and flap.

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Price: $800.00

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