A Boy's Will, inscribed

by Frost with a full, untitled manuscript evolving draft of the poem that would be published in 1928's A West-Running Brook as A Minor Bird by Robert Frost

$6,500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition · Signed

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First U.S. edition, first printing, second state. Hardcover. Robert Frost inscribed this U.S. first edition of his first published book on the front free endpaper in 10 lines with the full text of an evolving draft of an untitled poem that would be published in 1928’s West-Running Brook as “A Minor Bird”. The inscription reads: “I have wished a bird would fly

• Binding: Hardcover

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