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Lot 2176
Signed Copy of Robert Frost's A Further Range
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Robert Frost. A FURTHER RANGE. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. Book-of-the-Month Club Edition. Signed by Frost on the half-title: "Robert Frost / Albany 1937." Hardcover. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped cover and spine, top edge stained dull red, in printed cream and dull red dust jacket. 8vo; 102pp. This was the June BOMC selection; essentially the third impression, it followed the limited edition, and the first and second trade impressions published in May. Crane A21.1.

8 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.

Private Collection, Carolina Shores, North Carolina

A Further Range won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1937. Poet William Rose Benét noted of this collection that "It is better worth reading than nine-tenths of the books that will come your way this year." (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-frost)

Boards sunned with significant but small area of edgewear at head also slightly impacting page edges, corners bumped; pages toned, previous owner name on front free endpaper, a few foxing spots at endpapers and half-title, many pages with a very small stain at upper margin otherwise clean and unmarked; jacket with toning, light interior foxing, scuffing, and edgewear that includes small chips, losses, and tears with larger tears at spine; good in good jacket.