North of Boston.
“My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors": Robert Frost's North of Boston; Inscribed by Him
North of Boston.
FROST, Robert.
$2,800.00
Item Number: 147529
London: David Nutt, 1914.
First edition, second issue (with “Printed in Great Britain” ink-stamped on title verso), of Frost’s second published book. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. One of 200 in the sixth binding state (one of two binding states done for the Dunster House Bookshop in 1923). Presentation copy, this copy presented to Richard and Margaret Brooks from John and Irma Cone (Frost‘s daughter and his son-in-law) and Robert and Elinor Frost (this portion of the inscription in Robert Frost‘s hand), dated Christmas 1932. North of Boston is Frost‘s third-published work (after the unprocurable Twilight, issued in two copies). Upon Nutt’s bankruptcy, Simpkin Marshall obtained the original sheets and issued some copies; the balance of these then passed to the Dunster House Bookshop in Cambridge, Mass., who issued them in two bindings states. In very good condition.
Frost's North of Boston represents a pinnacle of his career, containing such classic poems as "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Home Burial," and "The Wood-pile."
