A Witness Tree.

FROST, Robert.

Item Number: 119489

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1942.

First edition of Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece portrait of Frost. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Robert Frost Bread Loaf 1948 For Dorothy Pierman.” Comes with an accompanying original photograph of Frost taken at the poetry reading where the book was signed, which reads on the verso “Robert Frost at Bread Loaf.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Alan Haemer. A nice signed example with provenance.

The poetry of Robert Frost occupies a central and commanding position in American literature, recognition of his stature has been confirmed by three Pulitzer Prizes and the award of the gold medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters - an honor which the Academy has conferred on a poet only three times in its history. Robert Frost's seventh book of poetry, A Witness Tree, requires no introduction, its lyrics are sharply beautiful and as richly and surprisingly wrought as Frost has ever written.