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Lot 93
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lots 1-273
Nov 12, 2020
4:00AM CT
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Nov 13, 2020
4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
FROST, Robert (1874-1963). Mountain Interval. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1924.
8vo. Frontispiece. Original cloth-backed green boards gilt (faint damp stain to boards and top edge; original printed dust jacket (a few minor short tears and chipping to edges; slight soiling; clipped).
Later edition, SIGNED BY FROST WITH A 4-LINE QUOTATION from his poem, "A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books": "How had the tender verse escaped their outrage?/ By being invisible for what it was,/ Or else by some remoteness that defied them/ To find out what to do to hurt a poem."
Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma Cotner