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

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.".