I Am A Simple Man Too Simple To Be More Than An Onlooker At The Competition For My First Editions A 13

by Robert Frost

$4,500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition · Signed

Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1950. Letter. This 13 January 1950 autograph letter signed by Robert Frost to a fellow poet and aspiring collector of Frost’s first editions is remarkable for Frost’s admission that he had kept none for himself, for his self-deprecating referral to both his bibliography and a trusted bookseller, and for his frank sense of the absurdity of having to treat his own work as precious and inaccessible. Rarely has a still-living poet achieved the fame Frost

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