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WEST-RUNNING BROOK

WEST-RUNNING BROOK by FROST, ROBERT

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Title
WEST-RUNNING BROOK
Author
FROST, ROBERT
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928. Second (Limited) Edition. No. 971 of 1000 copies. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the limitation page. 234 x 158 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 1/4"). 1 p.l., viii, 58 pp. Original quarter dark green cloth over paper boards patterned with colorful leaves, smooth spine with gilt lettering. In the original glassine wrapper and housed in the publisher's green cardboard slipcase with paper spine label (the case with a couple small stains and light wear, repair along lower edge, but still in good, sound condition). With woodblock frontispiece and three plates, all signed by the artist J. J. Lankes in pencil. Ex-libris of Frederick W. Skiff on the front pastedown. Crane A10.1; Clymer & Green p. 44-45. One corner slightly bumped, one page with small marginal ink mark, glassine with minor tears, otherwise very fine. This is an excellent copy of the fifth volume of poetry published by Frost (1874-1963), containing such fine poems as "On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations," "The Freedom of the Moon," and "The Egg and the Machine." According to the Poetry Foundation, the title poem "refers to a brook which perversely flows west instead of east to the Atlantic like all other brooks. A comparison is set up between the brook and the poem's speaker who trusts himself to go by 'contraries;' further rebellious elements exemplified by the brook give expression to an eccentric individualism, Frost's stoic theme of resistance and self-realization." Although this limited edition was published the same year as the first (trade) edition, it was printed in a different type, with a new format and pagination. The work was illustrated by J. J. Lankes, a prominent American woodcut artist whose images of rural America were a perfect fit for Frost's poetical themes. Our volume has been in the library of the important American bibliophile, Frederick Woodward Skiff (1867-1947), who put together one of the best private libraries of his time. The catalogue for the auction of his collection at Butterfield & Butterfield in 1947 describes the sale as "One of the most important book events of the decade." The present copy later went into the collection of two poets, Laure-Anne Bosselaar (b. 1943) and her husband Kurt Brown (1944-2013). Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, and editor who has published numerous works of poetry in multiple languages, including five collections of her own works. She has been given various prizes and recognitions (Pushcart, Isabella Gardner, Breadloaf) and was named Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara in 2019. Sometimes publishing jointly with Bosselaar, Brown was also a prolific poet and editor of anthologies, as well as the founder and first director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, playing a pivotal role in shaping its early vision and establishing Aspen as a literary center..

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