Author: (FROST, Robert) BURROUGHS, Stephen
Title: Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs of New Hampshire
Description: New York, MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed batik boards. Account of an eighteenth century New Englander reprinted from the Albany edition of 1811, this edition with a preface by Robert Frost, his second prose appearance in a book (Crane D2). Howes B1022: "Picaresque adventures, perhaps somewhat exaggerated, of a New England rogue." This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper: "Cornelius Weygandt/from Robert Frost." An uncommon book, scarce when signed. Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper Cornelius Weygandt was a writer, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a leading authority on Pennsylvania Dutch culture.

Keywords: Signed, New England, Robert Frost, John Burroughs, Modern Poetry, Americana, New Hampshire, Association Copy Modern First Editions Inscribed Association Copy Literature: American


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