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FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Witness Tree . New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1942.
FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Witness Tree . New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1942. 8 o. Frontispiece portrait. Original greenish-blue cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine; pictorial dust jacket (some light rubbing); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : Maxine Tull Boatner (presentation inscription from the author); Harold Corbin (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, trade issue. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST on the front free endpaper with one of his most famous, and shortest, poems, "The Secret Sits": "We dance round in a ring and suppose But the Secret sits in the middle and knows Robert Frost For Maxine Tull Boatner 1942." The poem is printed on p.71 of A Witness Tree . Boatner was the author of several books, including A Dictionary of American Idioms , a subject close to Frost's interests. Crane A25.1.