Books

New York: Henry Holt and Compay, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Second American edition, with revised text. Illustrated from woodcuts by Thomas W. Nason. Recipient's pictorial bookplate on a front blank. Boards with some light staining, second half of the text block with a stain at the bottom corner not affecting the interior, endpapers with light offsetting and lower hinge with a very short tear, very good and sound, lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Frost with 12 lines of verse in his hand, being the first three stanzas of "A Prayer in Spring" (which appears in this collection in four stanzas), with seven textual variants in punctuation. Signed by Frost at the end of the poem and Inscribed below: "For Carol Kendall / Hanover May 1938." Crane A2.2.

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