In the Clearing - First Edition, 2nd Printing - First State Dust Jacket

Robert Frost

Published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1962

About this Item

Here you have a FIRST EDITION, 2nd Printing of the great Robert Frost's 'In the Clearing'. This one is in very good shape and has the rare FIRST STATE dust jacket that while price clipped is in very good shape. The greatest American poet and one of his finest collections of poetry. Frost was 86 when he read his well-known poem "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961. He died in Boston two years later, on January 29, 1963, of complications from prostate surgery. He was buried at the Old Bennington Cemetery in Bennington, Vermont. His epitaph quotes the last line from his poem, "The Lesson for Today (1942): "I had a lover's quarrel with the world.".

Seller Inventory # ABE-11906104620

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Clearing - First Edition, 2nd Printing - First State Dust Jacket
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
• Publication Date: 1962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good