Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949.

First Edition of Robert Frost's Complete Book of Poems, 1949; Inscribed by Him

Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949.

FROST, Robert.

Item Number: 5025

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949.

First edition. Octavo, original green cloth. Inscribed by the author underneath his portrait opposite to the title page, “Robert Frost to Virginia Collins.” Laid into the book is the original receipt to the recipient from the bookstore where it was purchased. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and tears.

"The most highly esteemed American poet of the 20th century… T.S. Eliot [in 1959] toasted Frost as 'perhaps the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living,' whose 'kind of local feeling in poetry… can go without universality: the relation of Dante to Florence… of Robert Frost to New England" (ANB). Comprehensive through 1949, this edition includes "Mending Wall," "The Death of a Hired Man," "The Road Not Taken" and "Storm Fear."

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