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FROST, ROBERT. North of Boston: London: David Nutt [1914]. Square 8vo, original olive-green buckram, front cover and spine gilt-lettered, unopened, spine just a shade faded, endpapers with natural discoloration. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Binding A (one of 350 copies), INSCRIBED BY FROST "For Gordon Chalmers" and with the 12-line poem "Spring Pools" WRITTEN OUT AND SIGNED BY FROST on the front free endpaper. The poem, which was first collected in West-Running Brook (1928), begins: "These pools that though in forests still reflect The total sky almost without defect..." Crane A3; Clymer & Green, pp. 22-26 (first binding). A fine copy.
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FROST, ROBERT. North of Boston: London: David Nutt [1914]. Square 8vo, original olive-green buckram, front cover and spine gilt-lettered, unopened, spine just a shade faded, endpapers with natural discoloration. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Binding A (one of 350 copies), INSCRIBED BY FROST "For Gordon Chalmers" and with the 12-line poem "Spring Pools" WRITTEN OUT AND SIGNED BY FROST on the front free endpaper. The poem, which was first collected in West-Running Brook (1928), begins: "These pools that though in forests still reflect The total sky almost without defect..." Crane A3; Clymer & Green, pp. 22-26 (first binding). A fine copy.
"Among Robert Frost's special friendships was that with educator Gordon K. Chalmers, long-time President of Kenyon College, and his poet wife Roberta Swartz Chalmers"--Edward Connery Lathem, Robert Frost 100 [exhibition catalogue], Boston, 1974, 54b (exhibiting the inscribed Selected Poems in lot 93). Nearly all of the books inscribed by Frost to the Chalmers are presentation copies.
"Among Robert Frost's special friendships was that with educator Gordon K. Chalmers, long-time President of Kenyon College, and his poet wife Roberta Swartz Chalmers"--Edward Connery Lathem, Robert Frost 100 [exhibition catalogue], Boston, 1974, 54b (exhibiting the inscribed Selected Poems in lot 93). Nearly all of the books inscribed by Frost to the Chalmers are presentation copies.