Robert Frost: A Bibliography, a presentation copy inscribed and dated by one of the authors

W. B. Shubrick Clymer and Charles R. Green, Foreword by David Lambuth

Published by The Jones Library, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts, 1937

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This is the first edition of the first bibliography of the works of iconic American poet Robert Frost, this copy inscribed and dated 25 years after publication by one of the authors, W. B. Shubrick Clymer. The inscription is inked in blue in seven lines on the front free endpaper recto: "To Dimitri, gentleman, | philosopher and golf | instructor par excellence, | this small token of | appreciation. | Shubrick | 8-29-62". This copy is in very good condition. The buckram binding remains sharp-cornered, and substantially clean and bright, though with mild shelf wear to extremities, a bump at the spine heel, and minor blemishes to the rear cover. The contents are clean, with no spotting, soiling, or previous ownership marks other than the co-author's gift inscription.That this first bibliography of Frost's works was published in 1937 more than a quarter of a century before his death presages the towering stature he would achieve in his lifetime. In March 1937, when this book was printed, Frost had won only two (1924 and 1931) of his to-this-day-unrivalled four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry. (The second would come a few months later, in May 1937, the fourth in 1943.) Frost would spend 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). But much of this lay still before him when Clymer and Green compiled and published this work.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 an avid collector of Frost s works whose experience as a collector substantiated some of the detailed bibliographic descriptions in the biography he wrote with Charles Green.Charles R. Green (1876-1968) was the librarian of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts) in Amherst, Massachusetts.In 1918, he joined the staff of the Camp Johnston library in Florida as a special technical reference librarian. Soon after returning to Amherst, he became the first director and later Librarian Emeritus of The Jones Library. The Jones Library, publisher of this book, was established in 1919. The library "provides a range of circulating materials, electronic resources, special collections, programming, and events for residents of Amherst and the surrounding area." The Library s first director was Charles Green, who served for 34 years and "established the library as a space for community performances and gatherings and encouraged local authors, poets, academics, biographers, and other literary figures to come speak at the library."Frost had strong ties to Amherst, whose eponymous college was home to Frost for the better part of two decades over a span of more than three. He joined the faculty in 1917 and received an honorary M.A. from Amherst the following year. He left Amherst in 1920, but returned in 1923. Frost again returned to Amherst College in 1926, remaining until 1938. Following Frost s death in 1963, his public service was held at Amherst s Johnson Chapel.References: ALA Archives; New York Times; The Jones Library First edition, limited, numbered, signed, and specially-bound issue.

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• Title: Robert Frost: A Bibliography, a presentation copy inscribed and dated by one of the authors
• Publisher: The Jones Library, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts
• Publication Date: 1937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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