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New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1919. 8vo, ix, 137 p., original dark blue boards with gold paper label to upper front board and deckled page ends. First thus edition of this collection of Frost's poetry, the first illustrated edition, with 15 plates by James Chapin, issued in an unstated edition of only 500 copies. This is a nice copy with some minor tarnishing to label on front board, light rubbing to boards, minor soiling to top page ends, but spine gilt nice and bright, and otherwise a VG+ copy, in a VG+ example of the fragile jacket with a small nick to top edge front panel, a 1/2" closed tear to top edge front jacket panel adjacent front spine joint; small closed tear to lower front spine joint, and a section of crimping and wrinkling with small tear to lower rear jacket panel, but a nice sharp copy overall and scarce thus.

First published in 1914, North of Boston is a collection of poems by Robert Frost that solidified his reputation as one of America's most important poets. The themes in this collection include ordinary rural life and the complexities of modern existence.