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FROST, ROBERT. New Hampshire. New York, 1923. Green cloth-backed boards, paper label, uncut, fore-corners a bit worn. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY FROST with a 6-line poetic quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson on front free endpaper: "'I can spare the college bell, And the learned lecture, well; Spare the clergy and libraries Institutes and dictionaries For that hardy English root Thrives here, unvalued, underfoot,' says Emerson and so say I, Robert Frost to Stanley Johnson of Bath, New Hampshire." Bookplate of Charles C. Auchincloss -- New Hampshire. London: Grant Richards, 1924. Tan cloth-backed gray boards, uncut, slightly faded, badly defective dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, consisting of 150 sheets of the New York edition bound up with a new title-page, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Frost to Lady Ottoline Morrell (Bloomsbury's "official" hostess) on recto of frontispiece: "For Ottoline Morrell from Robert Frost." Scarce. Together 2 volumes, 8vo, original bindings. Crane A6 & A6.1. (2)