West-Running Brook.

FROST, Robert.

Item Number: 110346

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928.

First signed limited edition of this work detailing Frost’s “Home Spun Philosophy”. Octavo, original half-cloth over pictorial boards, top edge gilt, illustrated with four tissue-guarded full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes, this is number 736. One of one thousand copies signed by both Robert Frost and illustrator J.J. Lankes beneath each of his engravings. In very good condition.

In addition to the title poem West-Running Brook, this work contains “Acquainted with the Night,” “Spring Pools" and “Tree at My Window,” among others. With four full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. “Welford D. Taylor, a Lankes scholar, describes the appreciation that the poet and the printmaker had for each other’s work: "What had impressed each man was a recognition of the aesthetic and thematic values he shared with the other—a “coincidence of taste,” as Frost put it” (Vanderbilt University).