A BOY'S WILL. First American edition. Signed and inscribed by Robert Frost.
New York: Henry Holt, 1915. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Very good- condition. Item #018577
63 pages. One of only 750 copies of the first state of the first American edition. Original blue fine linen cloth binding. Moderately shelfworn, with minor fraying to the spine extremities and minor browning/sunning to the spine; protected in fitted archival mylar. No dustjacket. White wove paper, with the endpapers of a heavier white wove paper, somewhat toned. Top edge trimmed, other edges uncut. With the typographical error "Aind" present and uncorrected in the last line on page 14. On page 62 line 16 the word "wich-hazel" remains uncorrected. Signed and inscribed on the front endpaper "For my friends Mr & Mrs M. E. Gates [signed] Robert Frost." The inner front hinge at the half-title page is weakened. Merrill Edwards Gates (1848-1922) became president of Amherst College in 1891. Frost first visited the Amherst campus to give a reading of his poetry in April 1916 while working on his third book of poetry, Mountain Interval. Later that year, he was invited to join the faculty with the rank of full Professor beginning in January 1917.
Price: $5,000.00