Collected Poems of Robert Frost (signed and with a manuscript poem)

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. First printing of this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of Frost's poems which includes all six of his best known books, and notably the poems in A Further Range. [1-4] 5-349 pages. Frost's manuscript poem on the front free endpaper which he has excerpted from his poem "Snow", signed and dated. In his first year at Bread Loaf, the poem was presented as a play at the Bread Loaf Little Theatre. He called this the most gratifying experience of his narrative poem presented as a play. He said that this puts the poem to the test where the sound is inextricably linked to the presentation in dramatic form. This copy has the bookplate of Richard and Charlotte Hogue. News reports in both the Washington Post and the now defunct Evening Star show Richard Hogue as a major advisor in government on social issues while Charlotte (usually referred to as Mrs. Richard Hogue) was President of the American Association of University of Women and also the President of the Washington, D.C. Poetry Group. She was also a joint author with John Ciardi in "Divergent Viewpoints of a Classic Poem". In this copy, Frost has now entitled the poem "A Cold Winter Storm" and has signed for the Hogues Mrs. Hogue's pencil notes on the rear endsheets note some of the key poems of Robert Frost. She also served on the committee with Eleanor Roosevelt and Judge Ben Lindsay on the dismissal of Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith from the National Training School for Girls. Dr. Smith's appeal for social justice met with both political and religious opposition. Also laid in is a postcard from a friend addressed to the Hogue home in Riverton, Virginia which reads "Dear C, of all things, omitted in my notes Mrs. Nichols went with me to the talk on the Whitman Editions, collectors and etc. (review marginal importance). Although it is not explicitly noted, the poetry group Charlotte Hogue presided over had Frost's daughter, Lesley Frost, as a judge in one of the poetry contests. Bound in beige cloth pictorially stamped in gilt blocked in dark brown depicting a home in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in brown and gilt, some toning or finger soiling to covers, small tape ghost to front pastedown, no foxing, in the very rare dust jacket which is chipped and worn with only front panel and flap along with rear flap present. A strong association copy.