69 130
152
153
154
154
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GALSWORTHY, JOHN.
The
Forsyte Saga.
Folding chart at front. 8vo,
publisher’s gilt-stamped green cloth, top
edges stained green; dust jacket, unclipped
with very light edgewear; collector’s
chemise and
1
/
4
morocco slipcase.
FIRST
EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
. A fine copy.
London: Heinemann, 1922
[300/400]
WITH
-
Loosely inserted brief ALS on printed
stationery from the Burnam Hotel; a note of
apology to unnamed recipient (“Madam”),
dated August 16, 192[6?].
152
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FROST, ROBERT.
Mountain Interval.
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, front cover
and spine gilt-stamped, faint scattered soiling, spine slightly darkened; contemporary own-
ership signature at top of front free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
,
INSCRIBED
with
8-line autograph poem “Dust of Snow” signed below.
NewYork: Henry Holt, (1916)
[600/900]
153
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FROST, ROBERT.
North of Boston.
8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, front cover and
spine stamped in gilt, spine darkened, light mottling and age-toning; ownership inscription
on front free endpaper; author photo previously tape-mounted opposite half-title laid-in,
with tape residue and light offsetting.
NewYork: Henry Holt, 1915
[600/900]
Second edition, later printing.
WITH AN
8-
LINE AUTOGRAPH POEM SIGNED
,
BEING AN
EARLY VERSION OF
“
NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
.”
The final version of the poem was pub-
lished in New Hampshire (1923), and remains one of the most well-known of Frost’s verses.
The version inscribed in the present copy reads, in full:“Nature’s first green is gold, / Her hard-
est hue to hold. / Her early leaves are flowers; / But only so for hours; /Then leaves subside to
leaves. / In autumn she achieves / A still more golden blaze / But nothing golden stays.”The
revision from this to the final version is the subject of much Frost criticism (cf.The Robert Frost
Encyclopedia, pp 238-41).