Books

South Freeport, Me.: Ascensius Press, 2014. 4to, full brown calf, gilt title, publisher's initials, date and rules on spine. 43 ff., 3 digital laser photographic illus. Text set in Times Roman, titles printed in brown, body of poems in black. Bound by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine, housed in a brown cloth tray case with a gilt-stamped, dark brown calf title label on spine. Centennial edition. Limited to 41 copies, 26 being lettered copies bound in full calf. This copy letter "K." With two evocative photographic illustrations by Larry Hayden, one illustrating Home Burial and the other After Apple Picking. The third illustration, which appears at the head of the colophon page, reproduces an inscribed photograph of Frost seated in his writing chair, circa 1915. The compass-point emblem of Joseph Blumenthal's Spiral Press (which printed numerous works by Frost) is blind-stamped on the half-title and printed in brown on the title page. A fine Centennial tribute to this important…

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.