A boy's will. / By Robert Frost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Groves, John Stuart (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Sinclaire, Ellen (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 50 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Manufacture:

Colchester, London and Eton : Printed by Spottiswoode and Co. Ltd.

Place of Publication:

London : David Nutt, 17 Grape Street, New Oxford Street, 1913.

Contents:

Part I. Into my own; Ghost house; My November guest; Love and a question; A late walk; Stars; Storm fear; Wind and window flower; To the thawing wind; A prayer in spring; Flower gathering; Rose Pogonias; Asking for roses; Waiting - afield at dusk; In a vale; A dream pang; In neglect; The vantage point; Mowing; Going for water

Part II. Revelation; The trial by existence; In equal sacrifice; The tuft of flowers; Spoils of the dead; Pan with us; The demiurge's laugh

Part III. Now close the windows; A line-storm song; October; My butterfly; Reluctance.

Notes:

With half-title.

Publisher's advertisements: [1] p. at end.

Cream colored paper wrapper lettered in black with a dot between each word and an ornament beneath the title and author.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of John Stuart Groves.

Culture Class Collection copy has note from Robert Frost written in ms. on half-title page. "This is the third or fourth binding of the first printing. The third and fourth bindings were very much alike and I am none to sure of their order. Merle Johnson's description is correct as far as it goes. I think this is something a dealer got out of me by a ruse and not a genuine presentation copy*. Robert Frost. *Please throw it away."

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For Ellen Sinclaire from Robert Frost".

Culture Class Collection copy is third or fourth issue with stamp "Printed in Great Britain" on verso of title page and with blank leaf between the table of contents and text.

Cited in:

Clymer, W.B.S. and Green, C.R. Robert Frost a bibliography. Amherst, Mass., Jones Library, p. 20

OCLC:

1214302