A WITNESS TREE
FROST, Robert
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1942). Early but not first printing. This copy is SIGNED by the author and lengthily and charmingly INSCRIBED to a very young child on the front endpaper: "For Linda to keep for her own but not/read till she xx is six or seven; when/I think she may begin with page 29 and/go on gradually to page 30 then 41/then 42 then perhaps 57 at the rate of one or/two a year to her mothers tune and her fathers explanation. It would be nice/if she arrived at page 65 some time/late in her fifties thinking of me/Robert Frost/August 30 1942." The inscription, which takes up more than half the page, is to Linda Jean Wheelwright, the daughter of noted educator, critic, and philosopher Philip Wheelwright. The poem "The Gift Outright" on page 41 has been corrected with two words added by Frost. The recipient's small address label when she was at Vasser on the front pastedown above her small ink stamp, both hidden by the front flap of the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper cloth (Item ID: 015035)
$1,500.00