Range Book by Frost Robert: Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 102, [2]pp. 8vo. Lacking slipcase. First edition, no. 496 of 803 copies signed by Robert Frost. Printed at The Spiral Press. Original nubbed linen; brown leather label on spine shows moderate wear. Shows wear to spine at head and base. A few newsprint clippings laid in, with subsequent offsetting to facing pages. This volume has two different, period bookplates, one on first pastedown, and the other on first free endpaper, fine examples both. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Speckled tan covers are mostly clean. Boards show a little exposure, edgewear. Corners are sharp. Spine has leather label with gilt and is a little darkened, with frayed ends. Binding is strong. Pastedowns and feps have gift inscriptions. Interior is gently age-toned. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges.** PS2025.1204** 102 pages. 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches** First printing, "Limited edition"; this is #196 of 803 numbered, signed copies published May 20, 1936. Signed by Robert Frost on the limitation page, and again on the end paper with an inscription to Everett V. Meeks, May 1936. No glassine dust jacket, no slip-case. Condition is overall Very Good, with some toning at periphery and edgewear to the cloth.** This book won Robert Frost (1874-1963) his third Pulitzer Prize. The work's poems are grouped in sections titled "Taken Doubly," "Taken Singly," "Ten Mills," "The Outlands," "Build Soil," and the Afterthought, "A Missive Missile."** Association copy; Frost inscribed his book on the front end paper "To Everett V. Meeks, from Robert Frost, May 1936." Everett V. Meeks (1879-1954), a contemporary of Frost's, was an architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Fine Arts.** A second inscription follows, to "W.C.H. on this birthday, from Don Renhart."** This first printing of A Further Range was completed by the Spiral Press in New York in May 1936. The Spiral Press was an American fine press founded by Joseph Blumenthal (1897-1990) in 1926. Between 1926 and its closure in 1971, the press designed and printed books for or by Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.** The second printing (first trade printing) bears the words "First Printing" on the verso of the title leaf. The printing and publishing history of this work is complicated; details are given by Joan St. C. Crane, Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, 1974).** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010376"**. Inscribed by Author(s).…