FROST, Robert (1874-1963). North of Boston. London: David Nutt, [1914].

8vo. Original yellowish-green cloth, front cover lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine [Crane’s Binding C] (lower edge of front cover and lower fore-corner of rear cover lightly dampstained, spine gently sunned).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, INSCRIBED BY FROST WITH FOUR-LINES OF VERSE from the opening stanza of “Plowmen”, which has a third variant of the opening line (Crane cites two at F9.21). That poem first appeared in A Miscellany of American Poetry (1920), so, clearly Frost, who inscribed it in 1920, was still experimenting with it. North of Boston was Frost’s second book, preceding the American edition. The work was well received having been reviewed and heralded by Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats, firmly establishing his literary reputation both at home and across the Atlantic. In Crane’s Binding C (one of 250 copies bound up during the first world war by Nutt). Crane A3.