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147

FROMENTIN, EUGÈNE.

Dominique.

Half-title. 8vo, 19th-century

3

/

4

blue

morocco, gilt-lettered spine, by Conil, original yellow printed wrappers bound in, library

blindstamp to half-title.

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM

,

REGULAR ISSUE

.

Paris: Hachette, 1863

[200/300]

148

FROST, ROBERT.

A Boy’s Will.

8vo, publisher’s blue linen cloth, front cover

and spine gilt-stamped, spine darkened with short frays to head and foot, few scuff marks;

ownership signatures to front pastedown and free endpaper, offsetting from tipped-in ALS.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

,

FIRST PRINTING

, with “Aind” uncorrected on last line p. 14.

NewYork: Henry Holt, 1915

[600/900]

WITH

-

Tipped-in ALS by Frost on front free endpaper from Franconia, N.H., dated February

12, 1916, addressed to “Mrs. Hopkins,” declining with regret an invitation to attend a party

she is hosting in honor of John Masefield. It is likely the occasion coincided with Masefield’s

first lecture-tour of America. Crane A2.1.

149

FROST, ROBERT.

A Boy’s Will.

8vo, publisher’s blue linen cloth, front cover

and spine gilt-stamped, spine darkened, board edges partly age-toned, scattered small stains,

ownership signature on front free endpaper.

NewYork: Henry Holt, 1915

[400/600]

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

,

LATER PRINTING

,

with “Aind” corrected on last line p. 14.

WITH A FULL PAGE

16-

LINE AUTOGRAPH POEM SIGNED AND DATED

1921

(“Misgiving”)

on verso of final contents leaf. Differs slightly in that the present does not contain the fourth line

as in the published version. Crane A2.1.

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