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North of Boston. / By Robert Frost. Pictures by James Chapin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 F9298 914n 1919
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 137 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [Limited edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Company, [1919]
- Contents:
- The pasture
- Mending wall
- The death of the hired man
- The mountain
- A hundred collars
- Home burial
- The black cottage
- Blueberries
- A servant to servants
- After apple-picking
- The code
- The generations of men
- The housekeeper
- The fear
- The self-seeker
- The wood-pile
- Good hours.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- The title page is done entirely in hand-lettered capitals.
- "The Pasture" and "The Good Hours" are not listed in the table of contents.
- "'Mending the Wall' takes up the theme where 'A tuft of flowers' in 'A boy's will' laid it down."
- "This edition consisted of 500 copies. No date is mentioned anywhere in the book, but publisher's records give 1919 as the year of issue."--Cf. Clymer.
- Cloth spine stamped in gilt with dark green paper boards. Gilt paper label sunk in panel on front cover hand-lettered in black.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has complete dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has autograph of "Robert Frost, Pittsburg 1929".
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has label of Witkower's Booksellers & Stationers, Hartford, Conn.
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has catalog description of this book laid in.
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has blue paper carbon copy of catalog card laid in.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has portion of spine of dustjacked wanting.
- Cited in:
- Clymer, W. B. S. and Green, C. R. Robert Frost, a bibliography, p. 33
- OCLC:
- 1219916
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