The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

1865. First edition. Light brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g. Lightly rubbed, else
very near fine. $100
305. FROST, LESLEY. Really Not Really. Illustrated by Barbara Remington. Manhasset, New
York: Channel Press, (1962). First edition. Small 4to, illustrated boards. One bump to lower
edge, fine in a very lightly used dust jacket. A children’s story, inscribed on the title page to
Mrs. Bullock. The author was the daughter of Robert Frost. $75
306. FROST, LESLEY. New Hampshire’s Child: The Derry Journals of Lesley Frost. With
Notes and Index by Lawrance Thompson and Arnold Grade. Albany: State University of
New York Press, 1969. First edition. 8vo, ochre cloth. Fine in a very lightly rubbed dust
jacket. Facsmile of the author’s childhood diary, this is a presentation copy, inscribed by
Lesley Frost to Mrs. Bullock. $75
first book
307. FROST, ROBERT. A Boy’s Will. LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 1913. FIRST EDITION.
SMALL 8VO, ORIGINAL CREAM LINEN WRAPPERS (BINDING D) PRINTED IN
BLACK. SMALL CREASE TO CORNER OF FRONT WRPPER, ELSE FINE AND FRESH.
FROST’S FIRST BOOK, THIS BEING ONE OF 135 COPIES PURCHASED AS A
REMAINDER BY NEW YORK’S CHISWICK BOOKSHOP, NUMBERED AND SIGNED
BY FROST. A SHARP COPY IN AN APPEALING AND DISCREET MOROCCO-
BACKED SLIPCASE. $2,500
308. FROST, ROBERT. North of Boston. London: David Nutt, (1914). First edition. 8vo, grass
green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind (binding F, with horizontal blindrules only). Bookplate
on front pastedown; neat small label on rear pastedown, endsheets lightly offset; a fine,
bright, and tight copy, uncut, and with most of what would appear to be the original tissue
wrapper. An attractive copy, inscribed by Frost with a line from “Mending Wall” and signed
in full. $7,500
309. FROST, ROBERT. Mountain Interval. New York: Henry Holt, (1916). First edition. 8vo,
blue cloth. Bookplate; pencil notes to rear endpapers; covers very lightly sunned and rubbed.
The first issue, with a duplicated line on p.88. From the library of New England writer
Margaret Emerson Bailey, with her bookplate on the front pastedown and pencilled poems on
the rear endpapers. $350
310. (FROST, ROBERT). The Seven Arts, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 1917. New York: Seven Arts
Publishing Co., Inc., 1917. 8vo, printed wrappers Some soil, a touch of wear to edges of
oversized wrappers, else fine. Includes the first appearance of Frost’s first play, “A Way
Out.” $150
311. FROST, ROBERT. New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. With Woodcuts
by J.J. Lankes. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition. 8vo, cloth backed
boards. Gift inscription, else a fine copy in an edgeworn dust jacket with a sizeable chip to
the rear panel, and smaller one to the top of the spine, and three aged tape-mends. Frost’s
first Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, including “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
and other beloved verses. Scarce in dust jacket. $750
312. FROST, ROBERT. West-Running Brook. New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1928).
First edition. 8vo, t.e.g., decorative cloth-backed boards. Fine in original glassine (torn) and
an edgeworn slipcase, label tanned very slightly. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by
Frost. This special limited issue was printed by D.B. Updike’s Merrymount Press and
includes three signed woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes. $750
313. FROST, ROBERT. A Way Out: A One Act Play. New York: The Harbor Press, 1929. First
edition. Small 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards, otherwise
fine. One of 485 numbered copies, signed by Frost at the end of his two-page preface. The
poet’s first play, originally published in Seven Arts magazine in 1917 and appearing for the
first time here in book form. $350
314. FROST, ROBERT. The Lovely Shall Be Choosers. New York: Random House, 1929.
First edition. 8vo, illustrated wrappers. Fine. Part of the collection issued together as “The