PULITZER A WITNESS TREE by ROBERT FROST SIGNED
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**PULITZER** A WITNESS TREE by ROBERT FROST **SIGNED**

**PULITZER** A WITNESS TREE by ROBERT FROST **SIGNED**
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***AUTOGRAPHED PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, SIGNED & DATED BY ROBERT FROST*** **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN POETRY IN 1943** A WITNESS TREE BY ROBERT FROST ILLUSTRATED WITH A DRAWING OF ROBERT FROST BY ENIT KAUFMAN DUST JACKET DESIGN BY ALAN HAEMER New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1942.  First Edition, Later 1944 Printing [Crane A25.1].  Hardcover with greenish blue linen cloth covers lettered in gold gilt along the spine and with the top edge of the pages stained dark green.  5 3/4" by 8 1/2". 91 pages.  Beautifully illustrated with a Frontispiece crayon drawing in black of Robert Frost by the Artist, Enit Kaufman.  Also illustrated on the front of the printed dust jacket with a wash drawing of a tree in black, gray and red-brown by the Artist, Alan Haemer.  Robert Frost's Seventh Book of Poetry, this Collection contains 44 of the Poet's best poems including "The Silken Tent," "Come In," "Carpe Diem," "The Subverted Flower," "Wilful Homing," "To A Young Wretch," "A Considerable Speck," "The Secret Sits," "November" and the poem that Robert Frost recited at the Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, "The Gift Outright."  Robert Frost was awarded a record-breaking Fourth Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for this collection.  THIS IS AN AUTOGRAPHED PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE POET AT THE TOP OF THE BLANK FRONT FREE ENDPAPER WITH HIS TYPICAL FOUNTAIN-PEN-AND-BLUE-INK SIGNATURE AND IN HIS UNIQUE AND INIMITABLE HANDWRITING: "FOR IRENE HIGGINS FROM ROBERT FROST OCTOBER 1952 WASHINGTON" Slight quarter inch scratch near the top edge of the front cover and a one-half inch closed tear to the fore-edge of page 19, else a Fine Autographed Association Copy in nice, tight, clean and very collectible condition with no previous owners' bookplates or ink inscriptions or markings of any kind and with the gold gilt lettering on the spine still nice and bright and fresh, in a beautifully printed and colorfully illustrated dust jacket that is slightly chipped at the extremities, missing a small piece along the top edge, and has Irene Higgins pencil name at the top of the blank back cover of the dust jacket which is now protected with a Brodart cover.  Buyer pays $10.00 Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation in the U.S. Insurance required and additional at cost. NO RESERVE!

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