![]() ![]() Arthur Rackham are a sufficient raison d'etre for their appearance in this new form. Note: "The Publishers make no apology for a new edition of this 'evergreen' book. A near very good first edition in same wrapper. ![]() Front panel features scrolled titles and mounted color plate of Arthur Rackham's design of Cordelia from King Lear. ![]() Rare original wrapper, moderate shelf wear, rub, chip front flap clipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Features one dozen subtly rich color plates and black & white vignettes, headers, and tailpieces throughout. Pages very good few w/moderate discoloration. Front features the gilt stylized titles, ornamental borders and two elfin characters w/large open book. Red full-cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles, design, moderate shelf wear, toning. Stated at copyright: First Published in this Edition 1909. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This version of the poems is free of unauthorized editorial changes introduced into subsequent editions. The core of this collection is the 1949 Complete Poems of Robert Frost, the last collection supervised by Frost himself. Brought together for the first time in a Library of America single volume is all the major poetry, a generous selection of uncollected poems, all of Frost’s dramatic writing, and the most extensive gathering of his prose writings ever published, several of which are printed here for the first time. Here, based on extensive research into his manuscripts and published work, is the first authoritative and truly comprehensive collection of his writings. His poetry ranges from deceptively simply pastoral lyrics and genial, vernacular genre pieces to darker meditations, complex and ironic. ![]() From the publication of his first collections, A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), Frost was recognized as a poet of unique power and formal skill, and the enduring significance of his work has been acknowledged by each subsequent generation. ![]() Justly celebrated at home and abroad, Robert Frost is perhaps America’s greatest twentieth-century poet and a towering figure in American letters. ![]() ![]() Among them were eleven mystery novels, three of them as Ellery Queen. Vance published more than 60 books in his career, sometimes under pseudonyms. He also won an Edgar for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage. ![]() He won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc. 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