AUTOGRAPH POEM "TUFT OF FLOWERS" SIGNED by ROBERT FROST LIMITED Ed #706 of STEEPLE BUSH, SIGNED by ROBERT FROST Start Price USD 4,999.99 Current Price USD 4,999.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, October 28, 2008 End Time Thursday, November 27, 2008 Location Robert Frost Country See more about 'AUTOGRAPH POEM "TUFT OF FLOWERS" SIGNED by ROBERT FROST' Description ***HANDWRITTEN 8-LINE POETIC QUOTATION SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST*** "A TUFT OF FLOWERS" IN LIMITED EDITION #706 OF STEEPLE BUSH BY ROBERT FROST New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947.  LIMITED EDITION [See Crane A30].  Hardcover in gray-green paper-covered boards with a drawing of a weed stamped in gold gilt on the front cover, and lettered in gold gilt on a black panel on the spine. 6 1/4" by 9 1/2".  63 pages.  Beautifully illustrated with a drawing of a weed in yellow-gray by the Artist, Loren MacIver, that extends the length of the Title Page and is repeated in gold gilt on the front cover.  Printed by Joseph Blumenthal at The Spiral Press in New York City, this is Robert Frost's Ninth Book of Poetry which contains 43 of the Poet's later poems, including "A Young Birch," "Directive," "An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Letter Box," "A Mood Apart," "The Fear of God," "The Courage to Be New," "Two Leading Lights," "A Rogers Group" and "A Steeple on the House."  Robert Frost was awarded a record-breaking total of Four Pulitzer Prizes in Poetry for his poems. AS STATED ON THE LIMITATION PAGE, "THIS EDITION OF STEEPLE BUSH HAS BEEN LIMITED TO SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE COPIES HERE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: "ROBERT FROST" THIS IS COPY NUMBER "706" IN ADDITION, THIS IS A PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR WITH AN EIGHT-LINE AUTOGRAPHED MANUSCRIPT POETIC QUOTATION SIGNED BY THE POET ON THE BLANK FRONT FLYLEAF WITH HIS TYPICAL FOUNTAIN-PEN-AND-BLUE-INK SIGNATURE, AND IN HIS UNIQUE AND INIMITABLE HANDWRITING: A TUFT OF FLOWERS BUT HE TURNED FIRST AND LED MY EYE TO LOOK AT A TALL TUFT OF FLOWERS BESIDE A BROOK -- A LEAPING TONGUE OF BLOOM THE SCYTHE HAD SPARED BESIDE A REEDY BROOK THE SCYTHE HAD BARED. AS THE MOWER IN THE DEW HAD LOVED THEM THUS BY LEAVING THEM TO FLOURISH, NOT FOR US, NOR YET TO DRAW ONE THOUGHT OF OURS TO HIM, BUT FROM SHEER MORNING GLADNESS AT THE BRIM...                               ROBERT FROST FOR EUGENE R. PETTY DECEMBER 25, 1959 The 8-line poetic quotation is taken from lines 22 - 25 and 28 - 30 of Robert Frost's 42-line poem "The Tuft of Flowers."  Besides the difference in the titles, there are two other differences in punctuation between this Handwritten Copy and the poem as it appeared in A Boy's Will.  According to Jeffrey Cramer's book, Robert Frost Among His Poems, "The Tuft of Flowers" was "First published in The Derry Enterprise March 9, 1906 [and] written early enough to be used in his English A class at Harvard in 1897.  According to [Frost's biographer] Lawrance Thompson, the poem had been inspired by an experience which happened while Frost was haying for John Dinsmore, at Cobbett's Pond near Salem, New Hampshire... This poem, Frost said, was 'one I always considered one of my best'." Interestingly, in a prelude to the first poem in North of Boston, Frost wrote: " 'Mending Wall' takes up the theme where 'A [sic] Tuft of Flowers' in A Boy's Will laid it down."  Near Fine Autographed Limited Edition Copy in nice, tight, clean and very collectible condition without any previous owners' bookplates or ink inscriptions or markings of any kind, in a Fine Slipcase.  FREE POSTAGE & INSURANCE IN THE U.S. Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!