West-Running Brook.

FROST, Robert.

Item Number: 141040

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928.

First edition, second state of Frost’s classic collection with the ‘First Edition’ statement on the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with four full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. Signed by the poet on a tipped in note affixed to the half-title page, “Sincerely yours Robert Frost.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

In addition to the title poem West-Running Brook, this work contains “Acquainted with the Night,” “Spring Pools" and “Tree at My Window,” among others. With four full-page woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. “Welford D. Taylor, a Lankes scholar, describes the appreciation that the poet and the printmaker had for each other’s work: "What had impressed each man was a recognition of the aesthetic and thematic values he shared with the other—a “coincidence of taste,” as Frost put it” (Vanderbilt University).