A Masque of Reason.

First edition of this work by Frost, association copy, inscribed by him to fellow writer Wallace Stegner and his wife on the front free endpaper, "To Wally and Mary always theirs and all marks off Robert."Often referred to as “The Dean of Western Writers”, Wallace Stegner taught at both Harvard and Stanford University where he founded the creative writing program; his students included Sandra Day O’Connor, Robert Stone, Ken Kesey, and Larry McMurtry. Stegner’s novel Angle of Repose won him the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and in 1977 he was awarded the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird. The Frosts and Stegners remained lifelong friends after meeting at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 1938. Stegner's final novel Crossing to Safety took its title from a line in Frost's poem I Could Give All to Time. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.