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1924
Hardcover
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Description

New York: MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Cloth-backed batik boards. Account of an eighteenth century New Englander reprinted from the Albany edition of 1811, this edition with a preface by Robert Frost, his second prose appearance in a book (Crane D2). Howes B1022: "Picaresque adventures, perhaps somewhat exaggerated, of a New England rogue." This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper: "Cornelius Weygandt/from Robert Frost." An uncommon book, scarce when signed. Cornelius Weygandt was a writer, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a leading authority on Pennsylvania Dutch culture.

About New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost that captures the essence of rural life in New England, brilliantly balancing themes of nature and human beings. One of its most famous poems is 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.'

Identifying the First Edition of New Hampshire

First editions have the date '1923' on the title page, and 'Printed in U.S.A.' on the copyright page.