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Lot 159

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FROST, Robert (1874-1963). North of Boston. London: David Nutt, 1914.


8vo. Half-title. Original green gilt-lettered cloth (spine slightly browned, some browning to endleaves). 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Printed in Great Britain" stamped on verso of title, one of 200 in the sixth binding state (which was one of two bindings executed for Dunster House Bookshop in 1923). Includes the first appearance of Frost's well-known "Mending Wall." Of the 1,000 sheets originally printed, approximately 350 were sold by David Nutt. Upon Nutt's bankruptcy after the war, the remaining sheets were sold to Simpkin, of which approximately 259 copies were sold by Dunster House Bookshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Crane A3 [Binding F].

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