New Hampshire.

FROST, Robert; Woodcuts by J.J. Lankes.

Item Number: 100344

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923.

First edition, first printing of Robert Frost’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Octavo, original cloth, woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Signed thrice by Robert Frost throughout the text: at the conclusion of his poem Fire and Ice on page 80, at the conclusion of Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening on page 87, and beneath the final woodcut on page 114, “Right On R.F.” With the previous recipient’s notes throughout indicating that Frost signed beneath beneath Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening on April 9th 1958 and on the page including Fire and Ice at a reading on November 19th 1958. Laid in are two admission tickets from the latter reading held at Dartmouth College’s Webster Hall. Frost attended Dartmouth College for two months and, although he did not receive a degree, returned many times as a respected poet for several readings and fellowship lectures. In very good condition. A rare and desirable example of Frost’s best-known work, particularly desirable signed on the page containing Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening.

Robert Frost's collection of poems is a creative glance into quintessential rural New England life. The author spent his life in the area, and his writing reflects a passionate appreciation. The collections include the much lauded "Fire and Ice," "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and the illustrations for the collection were drawn by J.J. Lankes. In 1923, these poems won Frost the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.