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London: David Nutt, 1913. Softcover. Fine. First edition, signed issue, second issue, binding D. 12mo. 52pp. Cream-colored linen wrappers printed in black. Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.'s copy, with his pencil notation about this printing on the front flyleaf, housed in an envelope, in a custom stiff paper and card chemise, with Adams' Rockwell Kent-designed bookplate inside the front cover of the chemise. This is the Signed issue, copy number 123 of 135 numbered copies Signed and numbered by Robert Frost in 1923 on the half-title page. According to *Crane* A2 note: binding D (with rubberstamp "Printed in Great Britain" on verso of title page, as distributed by Dunster House, Cambridge, Mass, 1923. See Crane, p. 7-9, for the complicated publishing history of this title). Adams was an important collector, and friend of Robert Frost.

A Boy's Will, Robert Frost's first published book of poetry, introducing themes that would recur throughout his work.