ROBERT FROST SPEAKS.
New York: Twayne Publishers Inc., 1964. 1st Edition. Presumed to be from the personal collection of Richard Ellmann, with "R Ellmann" signed in ink to the ffep. 158, [2] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Green cloth lettered in black. White dust jacket printed in black and green, b/w photographic reproduction of Frost to front panel. Mild shelfwear, top edge slightly dusty; small rough patch to foot of rear endpapers due to paste-action; stray ink dot to one margin. Else clean and bright, binding tight. Dj lightly edgeworn and scuffed, with few nicks/ tiny chips to extremities. VG/VG. Item #43151
Ellmann "was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959), one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition won James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist, and his academic work focuses on the major modernist writers of the 20th century." [Wiki].
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