Lot 89
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FROST, ROBERT. A Masque of Reason. New York: Holt [1945]. Square 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, publisher's box (slight wear). FIRST EDITION, one of 800 copies signed by the author, INSCRIBED BY FROST "To Gordon and Roberta" and with the 14-line poem "One Step Backward Taken" (here entitled "In the Big Rain") WRITTEN OUT AND SIGNED BY FROST (with initials) on the front free endpaper. "One Step Backward Taken" was Frost's Christmas poem for 1947; it was first collected in Steeple Bush the same year. Crane A27.

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FROST, ROBERT. A Masque of Reason. New York: Holt [1945]. Square 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, publisher's box (slight wear). FIRST EDITION, one of 800 copies signed by the author, INSCRIBED BY FROST "To Gordon and Roberta" and with the 14-line poem "One Step Backward Taken" (here entitled "In the Big Rain") WRITTEN OUT AND SIGNED BY FROST (with initials) on the front free endpaper. "One Step Backward Taken" was Frost's Christmas poem for 1947; it was first collected in Steeple Bush the same year. Crane A27.