signed first edition Unbound
1949 · New York
by (FROST, Robert). John [Kohn]
New York, 1949. Unbound. Near Fine. Autograph Letter Signed. One 8½" x 11" sheet of Seven Gables Bookshop stationery. Old folds and one faint marginal stain, near fine. A letter from John Kohn, coproprietor of Seven Gables Bookshop, to Frederick B. Adams Jr., director of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Kohn writes to give the name of a poet he couldn't think of on Adams' last visit: Tom (Thomas Hornsby) Ferril. Kohn writes: "[H]ere is the poem that Robert Frost inscribed in one of [Ferril's] books: A man is as tall as his height, / Plus the height of his home town. / I know a Denverite, / Who, measured from sea to crown, / Is one mile five feet ten / And he swings a commensurate pen." Ferril would have the poem printed on the dust jacket of his 1952 *New and Selected Poems*. A charming letter. (Inventory #: 571126)
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