A Boy's Will. Frost, Robert First Edition

First American edition of Frost's first published work. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Boldly signed by the poet on the title page. In near fine condition. Frost's first commercially published book of poems, A Boy's Will was first published in 1913 by David Nutt in London, with a dedication to Frost's wife, Elinor. Its first American edition would come two years later, in 1915, through Henry Holt and Company. Like much of Frost's work, the poems in A Boy's Will thematically associate with rural life, nature, philosophy, and individuality, while also alluding to earlier poets including Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, and William Wordsworth.â Despite the first section of poems having a theme of retreating from society, then, Frost does not retreat from his literary precursors and, instead, tries to find his place among them.