Aforesaid by Frost Robert (7 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition, # 554 of 650. Signed by Robert Frost on limitation page. Former owner's ink inscriptions on ffep. Foxed on the frontispiece page, else textblock is clean and tight, green end papers; Light environmental dust spotting along textblock exterior; Sunned spine, minimally shelf worn boards; Slip case with moderately soiled edges. 114pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frontispiece (illustrator). Signed by Author. Hardcover.…

Cloth in Box. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Signed Limited Edition Fine Copy in Like Matching Slipcase.1/650 Copies of 500 For Sale #379 Beautiful Unworn Copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Edition. xiv, 114 pages of text. Original hardcover binding with minor browning/sunning to the spine; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. Original slipcase with minor sunning and shelfwear. Number 381 of 650 copies signed by Robert Frost on a special limitation page. Published to celebrate the poet's 80th birthday. Illustrated with a frontisportrait. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. This first, limited, numbered, and signed edition collection of Robert Frost's poems was, per the limitation statement, published to coincide "with the celebration of the author's eightieth birthday." The 650 copies were each hand-numbered and signed by Frost. This is copy "252", numbered thus on the limitation page and signed "Robert Frost". This copy is particularly noteworthy both for condition and provenance. Condition is truly fine in the publisher's original slipcase. The green linen cloth binding is square, clean, bright, tight, and sharp cornered, with no appreciable wear, soiling, or toning. The contents are immaculately clean, with no spotting, soiling, or previous ownership marks. The publisher's slipcase is complete and fully intact, with only the mildest superficial wear and some spotting to the printed paper spine label.Laid into this copy we found a printed slip declaring that this book is "FROM THE ROBERT FROST COLLECTION OF W. B. Shubrick Clymer." William Branford Shubrick Clymer (1906-1972) received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard, served as a personnel manager of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, and served, after retirement, in the New Hampshire State Legislature. He also was a book collector who, along with librarian Charles R. Green, compiled the first comprehensive bibliography of Robert Frost's works. Robert Frost: A Bibliography was published in 1937 and remains a valuable Frost reference today.The 66 poems herein were selected by Frost, who also contributed a reminiscence, titled "The Prerequisites", as a preface. The edition is quite handsome, the binding in heavy gray-green linen cloth with the weave pattern clearly visible as green and white threads. Inset, gilt-bordered, dark green panels - one on the front cover and two on the spine - feature the title, author, and publisher. The contents are printed on cream, wove paper, bound with yellow and green head and tail bands and blue-green laid paper endpapers. The board slipcase is covered with blue-green paper and features a white paper spine label printed in blue-green with a blue-green rule frame and a leaf ornament between the title and author's name.By his eightieth birthday on 26 March, 1954, when Aforesaid was published, the stature of Robert Frost (1874-1963) had risen to an apex arguably unequalled by any American poet since. Frost had long-since won all of his still-unrivaled four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry (1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943). He spent the final decade and a half of his life as "the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century" with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration (Kennedy, January 1961). References: Crane A37 First, limited, numbered, and signed edition.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine+. Limited Numbered Edition. A wonderful Signed Limited Numbered edition by one of America's most beloved poets, Robert Frost. Signed by the author on the limitation page and numbered 612 of 650 Limited Edition copies. Published on the occasion of the author's 80th birthday. The book is covered in textured green cloth with gold titling, with green endpapers, in near fine condition with only slight sunning to the spine but otherwise clean, square and solid. The slipcase is VG+; it is very solid and the outer spine label is complete; however there is slight sunning on the slipcase edges and touches of wear, all of which are common to this edition's slipcase. A lovely copy. This book is featured in the Parrish Books Premier Collection.…

No. 524 of 650 COPIES. 242 x 152 mm. (9 1/2 x 6"). xiii, [1], 114 pp. Publisher's green buckram, cover printed in dark green and gilt, flat spine similarly lettered. In original green slipcase (the case sunned and a little worn). Frontispiece photograph of the author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the limitation page. Crane A37. Tiny spot and trivial scratch on rear board, otherwise quite a fine copy, the text pristine and the binding unworn. Published on the occasion of Frost's 80th birthday, the poems in this collection were personally selected by the poet, and the preface, titled "The Prerequisites," was also written by him. The work spans more than 40 years of Frost's poetry, and includes some of his most famous verse, including "The Road Not Taken," and "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." Day writes of Frost that his work is distinguished by a blend of tradition and innovation: "by setting the elemental human passions in an idiom essentially puritan American, Frost is at once native to New England and highly original." Our copy is from the collection of two more recent poets, Laure-Anne Bosselaar (b. 1943) and her husband Kurt Brown (1944-2013). Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, and editor who has published numerous works of poetry in multiple languages, including five collections of her own works. She has been given various prizes and recognitions (Pushcart, Isabella Gardner, Breadloaf) and was named Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara in 2019. Sometimes publishing jointly with Bosselaar, Brown was also a prolific poet and editor of anthologies, as well as the founder and first director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, playing a pivotal role in shaping its early vision and establishing Aspen as a literary center.…

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. octavo, 114 pages; publisher's green cloth, green end papers. Number 364 of 650 copies SIGNED by the author. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Original slipcase, lightly tanned at front edges.