Robert Frost
New Hampshire. New York: Henry Holt, 1923
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MARSDEN HARTLEY 8vo, woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes, original boards, lacking dust-jacket, slight marginal dampstaining to endleaves, binding slightly rubbed, a very good copy
An excellent association copy linking two of New England's favourite artistic sons, inscribed by the author with a riff on the title and two lines of text from one of the poems in the collection:
"Some may know what they seek in school and churchAnd why they seek it there; for what I seek - we'll see A Star in a Stone-BoatRobert FrostFor the Author of Gulls of Gloucester".
The recipient was the celebrated Maine modernist artist Marsden Hartley who was less well-known for his poems, one of which is "Gulls of Gloucester", published in his 1923 collection "Twenty-Five Poems". This collection includes the poem "To ET", for Frost's great friend (and fellow “Dymock poet”) Edward Thomas, who was killed in World War One, and "Not to Keep", another war poem. Intriguingly, the village of Dymock is in Gloucestershire (England), though Hartley's Gloucester is the port in Massachusetts. Hartley is reputed to have supported Germany during WW1, having had a relationship with a German officer who was killed in combat.
Robert Frost
New Hampshire. New York: Henry Holt, 1923
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO MARSDEN HARTLEY 8vo, woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes, original boards, lacking dust-jacket, slight marginal dampstaining to endleaves, binding slightly rubbed, a very good copy
An excellent association copy linking two of New England's favourite artistic sons, inscribed by the author with a riff on the title and two lines of text from one of the poems in the collection:
"Some may know what they seek in school and churchAnd why they seek it there; for what I seek - we'll see A Star in a Stone-BoatRobert FrostFor the Author of Gulls of Gloucester".
The recipient was the celebrated Maine modernist artist Marsden Hartley who was less well-known for his poems, one of which is "Gulls of Gloucester", published in his 1923 collection "Twenty-Five Poems". This collection includes the poem "To ET", for Frost's great friend (and fellow “Dymock poet”) Edward Thomas, who was killed in World War One, and "Not to Keep", another war poem. Intriguingly, the village of Dymock is in Gloucestershire (England), though Hartley's Gloucester is the port in Massachusetts. Hartley is reputed to have supported Germany during WW1, having had a relationship with a German officer who was killed in combat.
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