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FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963. Collected Poems. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., [1942]. image 1
FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963. Collected Poems. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., [1942]. image 2
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FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.
Collected Poems. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., [1942].

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
New York

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FROST, ROBERT. 1874-1963.

Collected Poems. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., [1942].
Original blue cloth, dust jacket. Head of spine browned, jacket chipped.
Provenance: Reginald L. Cook; by descent to present owner.

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO REGINALD COOK, WITH 8 LINE POEM "FOREST FLOWERS." Below the poem Frost adds "This was written almost earlier than anything else in this book." The poem, beginning "Some flowers take station close to where we stay," was originally published in the The Pinkerton Annual, the literary magazine of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire, where Frost taught from 1906 to 1911. It did not appear in any of Frost's lifetime collections, though a ten line variant, titled "Tutelary Elves" was published in 1966 in Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1874-1915 edited by Thompson. It was later brought out as a small booklet, Forest Flowers: An Early Poem Recovered, by the Friends of the Amherst College Library in 1978.

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