[FROST, ROBERT]. High School Bulletin. Vol. XIII, Number 10. Lawrence, Mass., June 1892. 4to, 10 pages, plus an ad leaf, original tan wrappers, printed in gold on front and black on rear, the wrappers worn, slightly defective, and silked, fore-margin of first leaf a little nicked; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, containing the first periodical appearance of his "Class Hymn" and the first appearance of his valedictory address "A Monument to Afterthought Unveiled" (both on p. 10), SIGNED TWICE BY FROST on p. 10: under his name as printed (by error) at the bottom of the second column of his address, and under the title of "Class Hymn" (his printed name having been left off). With the errata slip ascribing Frost's authorship to the "Class Hymn," etc. Frost was the chief editor of the Lawrence High School Bulletin; this copy contains some pencilled corrections, but not in his hand. "RF's memory in later years was that the June number of the Bulletin was not actually released until sometime in July, after the graduation day"--Lathem 5 (this copy exhibited); Clymer & Green, pp. 81 & 107; see Crane C1.Provenance: William E. Stockhausen (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974, lot 697).

[FROST, ROBERT]. High School Bulletin. Vol. XIII, Number 10. Lawrence, Mass., June 1892. 4to, 10 pages, plus an ad leaf, original tan wrappers, printed in gold on front and black on rear, the wrappers worn, slightly defective, and silked, fore-margin of first leaf a little nicked; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, containing the first periodical appearance of his "Class Hymn" and the first appearance of his valedictory address "A Monument to Afterthought Unveiled" (both on p. 10), SIGNED TWICE BY FROST on p. 10: under his name as printed (by error) at the bottom of the second column of his address, and under the title of "Class Hymn" (his printed name having been left off). With the errata slip ascribing Frost's authorship to the "Class Hymn," etc. Frost was the chief editor of the Lawrence High School Bulletin; this copy contains some pencilled corrections, but not in his hand. "RF's memory in later years was that the June number of the Bulletin was not actually released until sometime in July, after the graduation day"--Lathem 5 (this copy exhibited); Clymer & Green, pp. 81 & 107; see Crane C1. Provenance: William E. Stockhausen (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974, lot 697).

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[FROST, ROBERT]. High School Bulletin. Vol. XIII, Number 10. Lawrence, Mass., June 1892. 4to, 10 pages, plus an ad leaf, original tan wrappers, printed in gold on front and black on rear, the wrappers worn, slightly defective, and silked, fore-margin of first leaf a little nicked; cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, containing the first periodical appearance of his "Class Hymn" and the first appearance of his valedictory address "A Monument to Afterthought Unveiled" (both on p. 10), SIGNED TWICE BY FROST on p. 10: under his name as printed (by error) at the bottom of the second column of his address, and under the title of "Class Hymn" (his printed name having been left off). With the errata slip ascribing Frost's authorship to the "Class Hymn," etc. Frost was the chief editor of the Lawrence High School Bulletin; this copy contains some pencilled corrections, but not in his hand. "RF's memory in later years was that the June number of the Bulletin was not actually released until sometime in July, after the graduation day"--Lathem 5 (this copy exhibited); Clymer & Green, pp. 81 & 107; see Crane C1.

Provenance: William E. Stockhausen (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14 December 1974, lot 697).