FROST, Robert. A Further Range . New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. 8 o. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover; printed dust jacket (few pale stains, spine lightly soiled). Provenance : Gordon and Roberta Chalmers (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, trade issue. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST TO GORDON AND ROBERTA CHALMERS WITH A 16-LINE EXCERPT FROM HIS POEM "HAPPINESS MAKES UP IN HEIGHT FOR WHAT IT LACKS IN LENGTH", signed "Robert Frost" and dated October 1938. The trade edition was intended for simultaneous publication with the limited edition on 30 May 1936, although the limited appeared 9 days earlier. Frost was a friend of Gordon Chalmers, sixteenth president of Kenyon College, from the early 1930s until Chalmer's sudden death in 1956. Chalmers often invited Frost to attended conferences at Kenyon, including one called "The Heritage of the English-Speaking Peoples and Their Responsibilities." Frost was reluctant to attend this conference in particular, claiming that he was unsure of the "responsibility" of English-speaking peoples to the rest of the world and stating "I only go when I'm the show" (Lawrence Thompson and R.H. Winnick, Robert Frost: The Later Years , New York, 1976). Frost finally gave in to Chalmers wishes when Kenyon awarded him an honorary degree in 1945. Ten lots of books inscribed by Frost to the Chalmers were offered at Christie's New York, 7 October 1994. Included was a copy (lot 86) of the limited edition of A Further Range with a 4-line quotation from the poem "Bravado." Crane A21.1.
FROST, Robert. A Further Range . New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. 8 o. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover; printed dust jacket (few pale stains, spine lightly soiled). Provenance : Gordon and Roberta Chalmers (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, trade issue. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST TO GORDON AND ROBERTA CHALMERS WITH A 16-LINE EXCERPT FROM HIS POEM "HAPPINESS MAKES UP IN HEIGHT FOR WHAT IT LACKS IN LENGTH", signed "Robert Frost" and dated October 1938. The trade edition was intended for simultaneous publication with the limited edition on 30 May 1936, although the limited appeared 9 days earlier. Frost was a friend of Gordon Chalmers, sixteenth president of Kenyon College, from the early 1930s until Chalmer's sudden death in 1956. Chalmers often invited Frost to attended conferences at Kenyon, including one called "The Heritage of the English-Speaking Peoples and Their Responsibilities." Frost was reluctant to attend this conference in particular, claiming that he was unsure of the "responsibility" of English-speaking peoples to the rest of the world and stating "I only go when I'm the show" (Lawrence Thompson and R.H. Winnick, Robert Frost: The Later Years , New York, 1976). Frost finally gave in to Chalmers wishes when Kenyon awarded him an honorary degree in 1945. Ten lots of books inscribed by Frost to the Chalmers were offered at Christie's New York, 7 October 1994. Included was a copy (lot 86) of the limited edition of A Further Range with a 4-line quotation from the poem "Bravado." Crane A21.1.
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