Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949.

FROST, Robert.

Item Number: 121327

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949.

First edition of this collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Frost. Inscribed by the author underneath his portrait opposite to the title page, “and from Robert Frost.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and tears, owner name to the front free endpaper.

"The most highly esteemed American poet of the 20th century… T.S. Eliot [in 1959] toasted Frost as 'perhaps the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living,' whose 'kind of local feeling in poetry… can go without universality: the relation of Dante to Florence… of Robert Frost to New England" (ANB). Comprehensive through 1949, this edition includes "Mending Wall," "The Death of a Hired Man," "The Road Not Taken" and "Storm Fear."