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Robert Frost, with introductory essays by W H Auden, C Day Lewis, Paul Engle, and Edwin MuirBiblio.com

Selected Poems signed and dated by Robert Frost in San Antonio Texas within four months of publication in England

1936réf. 008594London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1936. First edition first printing. Hardcover. This compellingly well-preserved jacketed first edition first printing was signed by Frost in Texas in 1937. Frost wrote in two lines on the front free endpaper recto: Robert Frost San Antonio 1937. This copy was signed thus within four months of publication 13 November 1936; Frost spent the winter of 1936-37 in San Antonio from December 1936 until late March 1937 taking up residence at a home close to Trinity University. Condition is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is square clean bright and tight with sharp corners and only mild shelf wear to the bottom edges. The contents are clean with no spotting no soiling and only mild age toning. The blue-stained top edges retain even color the fore and untrimmed bottom edges are clean. Texas provenance for this British-only edition is both a bit ironic and entirely complete; the sole previous ownership mark other than the authors signature is a small booksellers sticker affixed to the lower left rear pastedown: FRANK ROSENGREN BOOKSELLER MILAM BLDG. San Antonio Texas in operation from 1935 to 1987. Willie Morris editor of Harper's called Rosengren's Books "one of the finest and most admirable bookstores in America." The white dust jacket printed in red and black is unclipped retaining the original lower front flap 5s. net price and entirely complete with no loss or tears. While the jacket shows light overall soiling we note no appreciable color shift between the covers and spine and only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear removable archival cover. Selected Poems had first been published in 1923 with poems from Frosts first three published collections A Boys Will North of Boston and Mountain Interval. The collection was carefully calculated to present Frost as a major contemporary figure. Frosts arrival as a major contemporary figure had been imminent; that first Selected Poems was published in March 1923 preceding the November 1923 publication of New Hampshire the collection that won Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. By 1936 when this expanded Selected Poems was published by Jonathan Cape in London Frost unequivocally was a major contemporary figure. The arrangement of poems 62 rather than the 1923 editions 43 poems was not only a new and expanded arrangement but also the first book of Frosts to contain material by others with introductory essays by W. H. Auden C. Day Lewis Paul Engle and Edwin Muir. This expanded edition of Selected Poems was published first and only in England where Frosts first book A Boys Will had been published in 1913 23 years before. It had been in England that this quintessential American poet had been first published and recognized. Now preeminent in America Frost was being reintroduced to England. As explained by the publishers note on the dust jacket flap: Mr. Robert Frost is by now recognized as the outstanding poet of his generation in America and to the few but still too few in England his work has long been known as unique in its kind it is a striking tribute to the appeal of his poetry that Mr. W. H. Auden Mr. Cecil Day Lewis Mr. Paul Engle and Mr. Edwin Muir should have contributed for this volume four specially written essays of critical appreciation uniting in their admiration of an artist older in years but unageing in his sensibility and performance. Frost required little introduction for the rest of his life. The next year 1937 he won the third of his eventual and still-unequaled four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He spent his final years as the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century with an ever-growing hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration Kennedy January 1961. References: Crane A5 & A22; Parini Robert Frost: A Life; San Antonio Current Jonathan Cape Ltd. hardcover

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