Hard not to be King, copy number 243 of the limited and numbered first separate edition, signed

by Robert Frost by Robert Frost

$450 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

Signed

New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1951. First, signed, limited, and numbered edition. Hardcover. This is the first separate edition - limited, numbered, and signed - of Frost's poem How hard it is to keep from being King when it's in you and in the situation was later collected in In the Clearing more than a decade later 1962 . Per the limitation statement, the edition was limited to three hundred numbered copies

• Binding: Hardcover

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