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HARD NOT TO BE KING. New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1951. Signed limited first edition. Hardcover. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue linen cloth. Thin small 8vo; unpaginated [24pp.]. Signed by Frost, as called for, on the limitation page, numbered 237 of 300 copies. Crane A36. (Spine sunned with one faint stain; minor spotting to rear endpaper, otherwise pristine interior. A very good to near fine copy/ lacking tissue wrapper.)

COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT FROST. New York: Halcyon House, 1939. Second printing (April). Hardcover. Green cloth-covered boards, stamped with gilt facsimile signature on upper board, with black and gilt on spine. 8vo; [12], 436pp. Frontispiece with photograph of Frost and facsimile signature. Signed and dated by Frost on title page: "Robert Frost / 1939." (Boards with minor edgewear, corners mildly bumped and rubbed, spine ends lightly rubbed with some rubbing to gilt, slight separation from text block at head; unfortunate large area of green damp staining (likely from original jacket) at top edge and small portion of fore-edge, impacting many leaves and frontispiece with thin and faint area of damp staining at margins; endpapers toned with offsetting and damp staining, ownership signatures on front paste-down; prelims with some toning, foxing, and spotting, inscriptions on Contents page, and light toning throughout with occasional small mark or area of grime; a good minus copy/lacking jacket.)

7 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.

Private North Carolina Collection