Witness Tree by Robert Frost, First Edition (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing, March 1943. Hardcover without dustjacket. 91 pages with author frontispiece. A collection of Robert Frost's poems. Blueish green boards with gilt border and lettering to the front and spine. Former owner bookplate on front freepaper, otherwise a very good and solid copy, with no bumped corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket. Blue boards with gold lettering to spine are very good with minor pushing/bumping to corners, a little patchy fading, patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small mark, odd minor bump/rub to edges and a little pushing/rubbing/bumping to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Rough cut page edges and bottoms. Top edge of pages dyed blue. Pages little tanned. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

HARDBACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. 1ST PR. General wear, illustrated frontispiece, faded gilt lettering on cover to spine, loose spine, light soiling on cover, worn edges, DATE PUBLISHED: 1942 EDITION: 1ST PR 91.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 57pp, portrait frontispiece. DW is unclipped, lightly edge rubbed & age browned, slightly chipped at the head of the spine, & is in a clear protective removable sleeve. Internally an owner's inscription, else unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 91 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Cover slightly faded. Lyric poetry collection which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1943. Interior table of contents signed "Read by Robert Frost 4-25-1942," and identification of which passages were read aloud on that date. Otherwise clean copy. Record # 33580.

First printing. 8vo, Pp. 91. Frontis portrait. Donor's inscription on flyleaf. Top edge little dusty, ends of spine slightly scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy. No dj.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 91+(1) pages. Early issue with June, 1942 on the copyright page, but no first printing statement. A very good copy with $2.00 on the flap. Near fine in near fine jacket. With a frontispiece portrait of Frost by Enit Kaufman. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

First Edition. Poetry collection which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1943. VG in Good+ jacket priced at 5/- which is worn and internally repaired to the spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First printing with the $2.00 price on the jacket flap. A bright, clean copy the jacket has some wear on the jacket at the extremities and faded spine lettering.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 91 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a good condition dust jacket. Spine is brown with red and heavily age toned white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price clipped, has moderate shelving wear, age toning throughout, chipping along the front joint edge and the fore edges, open tears on the corners and head edges, closed tears along the tail edges and rear head edge, and mild wear along the edges. Boards are bound in publisher's blue cloth, has mild shelving wear, stains along the front and rear, and mild bending wear along the tail spine edge. Textblock has an Ex Libris bookplate on the front paste down end paper, pencil marks on the table of contents pages, black dots on the frontispiece, mild age toning throughout, mild adhesive staining on the paste down end papers, and moderate age toning along the edges. Shelved in Room C. 1389216. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Fine in price-clipped very good+ or better dust jacket. (Jacked flaps clipped at corners. Tiny chip with adjacent rubbing at crest of spine on jacket. Short edge tears in jacket. ) Pulitzer Prize winner. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 91 pages.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This is the first edition, first printing. "Frost's seventh book of poetry was published on 23 April 1942, when the poet was sixty-seven. The book's jacket design showed a beech tree in which a blaze is cut to make it witness to a territorial claim. The first poem in the book - "Beech" - is a sort of epigraph about a 'beech' that gives provisional security in the chaos of the forest. Then follows a section called "One or Two," consisting of fourteen poems, several of which are poems of such passion and lyricism that they astonished the poetry-reading public. There follows a section called "Two or More," which turns largely to social questions. Next is a set of eight poems with the title "Time Out," followed by nine tiny verses called "Quantula." The final section is called "Over Back" and contains six poems on rustic themes. A Witness Tree earned Frost his fourth Pulitzer Prize and a plethora of reviews." (The Robert Frost Encyclopedia, p.413)Condition is very good in a very good minus dust jacket. The blue-green linen cloth binding is square and tight with sharp corners, the spine and gilt mildly dulled, consonant with toning of the jacket spine. The contents are clean with no previous ownership marks. A hint of spotting appears confined to the endpapers. The untrimmed fore and bottom edges are clean, albeit age-toned, the top edges with a little shelf dust. The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original "$2.00" upper front flap price, and nearly complete, with fractional loss confined to the spine ends and flap fold corners. The jacket shows modest scuffing to extremities and toning to both the upper rear face and the spine, on which the red author and publisher print is still clear, but the white title print is barely legible. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.Iconic American poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963), the quintessential poetic voice of New England, was actually born in San Francisco and first published in England. When Frost was eleven, his newly widowed mother moved east to New Hampshire. There Frost found his poetic voice, infused by New England scenes and sensibilities. Promising as a student and writer, Frost nonetheless dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, teaching and farming to support himself and a young family. A 1912 move to England with his wife and children "the place to be poor and to write poems" finally catalyzed his recognition. There A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) were published, after which "Frost's reputation as a leading poet had been firmly established in England, and Henry Holt of New York had agreed to publish his books in America." Accolades met his return to America at the end of 1914 and by 1917 a move to Amherst "launched him on the twofold career he would lead for the rest of his life: teaching whatever "subjects" he pleased at a congenial college and "barding around," his term for "saying" poems in a conversational performance." (ANB) He eventually won four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry - 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943, the last for this book, A Witness Tree. Frost spent the final decade and a half of his life as "the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century" with an accumulating host of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration (Kennedy, January 1961).Reference: Crane A23.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Early issue with June, 1942 on the copyright page, but no first printing statement. A very good copy with $2.00 on the flap. The spine of the jacket is faded. This copy likely from the library of Frost's close friend Louis Untermeyer with Untermeyer's vintage bookplate on the pastedown. Unusual thus.

First edition. Tiny sticker on front free e/paper o/w fine in a price clipped d/w with a bit of wer to the spine ends and lower corners but certainly better than very good. Crane A 25.1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Henry Holt first printing hardcover, 1942. INSCRIBED BY FROST to a friend in Vermont, dated August 2, 1943. Cover clean, binding tight. Dust jacket shows moderate wear. Generally near find inside and out. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Robert Frost (1874-1963) on the first free endpaper. Second Printing. 91 pp. 8vo. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, tiny tear at top of front panel, wear at head of spine and two small tears at head of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Not price clipped with original $2.50 price tag present. Light blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition book in very good dust jacket. Signed by the author below frontispiece picture. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt stamped text and graphics on front panel and gilt text on spine. Boards are clean. Extremities and spine are darkened. Transfer stains along front and back inside gutters. Back free end paper has a 7/8" by up to 1/4" stain along the lower outside edge which carries over (decreasingly) on text pages 92 to 81; else book is internally clean. Text block is tight. Dust jacket has shelf-wear soil overall; extremities are sunned, spine heavily. Stain at tail of jacket spine. Several chips and rubs along upper edge at head of jacket spine. Upper left corner on front panel has 7/8" closed vertical tear to the right of the "R" in Robert. Fore-edge folds are creased and rubbed, fore-edge corner tips are rubbed with minimal loss. All inside flap corners are universally clipped. Price of $2.00 is intact. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in medium blue buckram, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 91pp. Includes the famous poem "The Gift Outright" which was read at President Kennedy's Inauguration ceremony in 1961. The collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry of 1943. Q15723.

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, trade issue. Signed by Robert Frost on the front free endpaper in ink, dated 1943. [iv], 91 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with slightly toned spine panel, unclipped. An attractive copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Frost to Roberta and Gordon Chalmers on the front free endpaper: "For Roberta and Gordon / From Frost / 1942." Publisher's coarse blue cloth, with front board and spine stamped in gilt; in its original pictorial dust jacket, with tree illustration by Alan Haemer to the front panel. Near fine book, with light toning to spine, light rubbing to bottom edges of boards, and very light spotting to endpapers and pages; in a very good unclipped dust jacket, with light fading and scuffing to spine, light wear and chipping to spine ends, some edgewear to panels with a few small closed tears, tiny chip to bottom edge of rear panel, and light staining to top of rear flap fold. Overall, a great association copy. A Witness Tree is Frost's seventh book of poems, which earned him the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The volume includes forty-two poems divided into five sections - poems like, "Never Again would the Birds' Song Be the Same," "To a Moth Seen in Winter," "The Gift Outright," and "A Nature Note." Already an established and beloved poet upon publication, the book's dust jacket correctly promised that the collection would "substantiate still further [Frost's] claim to permanence and importance." This copy is inscribed by Frost to Roberta Teale Swartz Chalmers and her husband, Gordon Keith Chalmers. Gordon served as the president of Kenyon College from 1937 until his death in 1956. Roberta, a poet who published two acclaimed books of poetry, served as an associate professor at Kenyon College from 1942-1945. The two were instrumental in the founding of The Kenyon Review literary magazine. Roberta and Gordon were close friends with Robert Frost. Roberta studied poetry under Frost while she was a student at Mount Holyoke College. Before coming to Kenyon College, Gordon was president of Rockford College, where Robert Frost's daughter, Lesley Frost, was a student. Through mutual friendship with Frost, Gordon was able to convince John Ransome Crowe to leave Vanderbilt University and join the Kenyon College faculty in 1937. Two years later, Gordon, Roberta and Crowe co-founded the Kenyon Review, with Crowe serving as the magazine's editor from 1939 to 1959. The Kenyon Review is one of the most influential literary magazines in the U.S. - its short stories have won 42 O. Henry Awards, and many of its poems have been reprinted in the Best American Poetry series. During his presidency, Gordon brought Frost to speak at Kenyon College numerous times. Notably, Frost's last public address before his death in 1963 was for the inauguration of the Chalmers Library, named in honor of Gordon, at Kenyon College. Frost made the address on October 28, 1962, and passed away just three months later, on January 29, 1963. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limited Issue. #221/735 numbered copies SIGNED by Frost on a preliminary colophon leaf, specially bound in dark green buckram over dark green patterned paper covered boards, Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, in publisher's dark green paper covered slipcase. Fine, a flawless copy. 91pp. Printed at the Spiral Press. Q16962 Hardcover in publisher's slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing (so stated) of Frost's final Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Inscribed on the front free endpapers, "To Ray and Eleanor Ingersoll from their friend Robert Frost April 1942 Cambridge." Touch of darkening in front and rear gutters, otherwise Near Fine. In a Very Good DJ with some rubbing about the spine and shallow chips and closed tears from spine crown and top rear edge. Book title somewhat faded from spine(author's name legible). Approximately an inch of loss at the bottom of the rear flap fold. Photos available upon request. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited to 735 copies of which this is copy number 519 printed at the Spiral Press and signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 91pp. Robert M. Johnson's library ownership stamp blind embossed, and previous owner's name inked, to front endpaper. Titling lightly oxidized on spine, with faint tanning to upper edge of textblock, and light rubbing to lower corners; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Alan Haemer, unclipped (priced $2.00), tanned, with trivial surface wear, and tiny tears and rubbing to spine ends and extremities; Very Good. Collection of verse, includes "The Silken Tent", "On Our Sympathy with the Under Dog", and "The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus". [84773].

First U.K. edition. Octavo. 57 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Enit Kaufman. "1/-" price rubber-stamped on front free endpaper. Cover edges a little bumped. Extreme head and tail of spine faded. Very good in very good dustwrapper, designed by Hans Tisdall, rubbed at head and tail of spine and at edges.

Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Limited first edition, number 610 of 735 copies, signed by Robert Frost. Green buckram cloth over decorated paper boards. Near Fine or better with and bookseller's ticket at rear pastedown. In a Near Fine original slipcase with light wear and minor darkening to edge. An exceptionally nice copy of the poet's short lyric poetry collection which received the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. Crane A25.