Lot 398
[Signed Robert Frost Advance Copy Poem], Robert Frost, The Gold Hesperidee, nd., 1935, advance copy (1 of 7) of first edition, first issue, The Bibliophile Press, Cortland, N.Y./ A, stiff tan wraps, brown thread, inscribed "To Earle Newton, my best wishes in his next undertaking as a publisher, Robert Frost", with a handwritten note, loose, by the publisher, noting that 7 advance copies were printed, one each to Frost, the illustrator, the text designer, and four to Earle Newton.
Note: Earle Newton started his own printing business, The Bibliophile Press, when he was just 12 years old. The young Mr. Newton printed cards, letterheads and pamphlets and continued to operate his press while he was a student at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Amherst's poet-in-residence, Robert Frost, was very interested in his student's printing career and offered Newton the opportunity to print the first separate edition of his poem, "The Golden Hesperidee". Newton's mother, Ann McGraw, illustrated the cover, and a friend, Charles Miller, designed the text cut.
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