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FROST, Robert.
Selected Poems.
N. Y.: Henry Holt 1923. First edition. One of 1025 copies printed. Crane A5. Presentation copy, inscribed "For Llewellyn Jones from his friend Robert Frost". Jones was a prominent Chicago man of letters, a friend of Margaret Anderson's, & poetry editor of The Chicago Literary Times. Along with Louis Untermeyer, Jones dedicated an entire issue of the Chicago Evening Post literary supplement to Frost's work, giving the poet much needed exposure & recognition early in his career. Frost acknowledges as much in a letter to Jones: "You'll wonder how, when I say your letter gave me as much pleasure as the great spread you and Untermeyer made of me in The Post, I haven't answered it sooner. I'm glad you gave the small book [A Boy's Will] its share of notice. The two are the same thing at the source. 8vo, dark green cloth-backed patterned boards, dust jacket. A beautiful copy, virtually as new in the rare dust jacket, which is splitting at one of the folds, in a half-morocco slipcase.
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