FROST, Robert.

£3,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

New Hampshire. First edition, inscribed by the author on the first blank: "Some may know what they seek in school and church / And why they seek it there: for what I search - we'll see A Star in a Stone-boat. Robert Frost. For the author of Gulls of Gloucester". The recipient was the artist and poet, and fellow New Englander, Marsden Hartley.Hartley (1877-1943) began writing poetry in the early 1900s and "became acquainted with Horace Traubel, who had been a close friend of Walt Whitman, whose influence Hartley felt in his search for transcendental meaning" (ANB).New Hampshire won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924 and includes Frost's celebrated poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Fire and Ice".

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