8vo. Publisher's dark brown-bronze pebbled cloth gilt (rubbed, some slight bubbling). Provenance: Joseph Frost (letter tipped in).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Binding "A (2)" variant, OF FROST'S FIRST BOOK OF POEMS WITH LETTER SIGNED FROM ROBERT FROST to his cousin Joseph Frost: "I seem to have set out to find you in your barley shades on an unlucky evening. I will try for you again in the fall when I come back from farming. My summer address will be Ripton, Vermont in case you would want to call on me." Approximately 350 copies of this binding variant were issued by Nutt. Crane A2. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.