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FROST, Robert.

A Boy's Will.

A Boy's Will.

Stock Code 103327

London, David Nutt, 1913

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Frost's first published book in the earliest 'A' binding, one of around 350 copies. Frost wrote A Boy's Will whilst living with his family in Beaconsfield, it would be published in America in 1915 and was favourably reviewed by Ezra Pound in Poetry. Frost was nearly 40 at the time and had visited England in the hope that his poetry would be better understood and received, which it was. On the strength of this collection's success here and the outbreak of war in Europe, Frost returned to the U.S. and a rising career. Poems include; The Tuft of Flowers; My Butterfly; Spoils of the Dead; Going for Water; etc., thirty-two poems in all.

First edition, first issue; 8vo (200 x 135 mm); a few random spots, pencil ownership inscription dated 1914 to front free endpaper and scholarly notes to rear fly-leaf in the same hand (pencil), dated 13.III.14; publisher's bronze pebbled cloth, some light fading to spine and covers, minor dent to spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped, a bright and very good example overall; ix [2] 2-50, [2 including one advertisement] pp.

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