Inscribed first trade edition, association copy, of this Pulitzer-winning collection from the beloved poet, signed to Frost's colleague at Amherst College David Morton.
Near fine in a very good jacket.
Price: $1,500.00
"No memory of having starred / Atones for later disregard / Or keeps the end from being hard."
Frost's sixth collection of poems, A FURTHER RANGE won him his third and final Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1937). This copy warmly inscribed to fellow poet and colleague on the faculty of Amherst College, David Morton. Morton joined the faculty in 1924 and remaining there until 1945, overlapping with Frost for more than a decade between 1926 and 1938. Like Frost, Morton published numerous collections of verse, edited poetry anthologies, and published criticism. He and Frost not only taught poetry together, but socialized as well. A photograph from the year of this inscription shows Morton and Frost (as well as Joseph Auslander, Audrey Wurdemann, and Robert Francis) at Frost's home. Genuine associations from the beloved American poet are decidedly uncommon, especially in one of his major titles and with so appropriate an inscription.
Read more: Crane, Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue, A21.1.
First printing. New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1936). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original full red cloth with gilt titles. In publisher's printed jacket. [2], 102 pages. Inscribed by Frost in year of publication on the front free endpaper: "For David Morton / from kinfellow in poetry / and the teaching of it. / Robert Frost / Amherst, MA / 1936." Book has slight lean. Small parch of soil to one prelim. Jacket moderately toned and rubbed, with some minor chipping at spine tips and corners. One or two tiny closed tears. Overall, sound and attractive.
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