My Objection to Being Stepped On

1 of 650 copies printed for Robert Frost (from an edition of 8,290 copies). 16mo (13 x 9 cm), Publisher's stapled wrappers,wood-engravings by Leonard Baskin, accompanied with the original envelopes, 7 pp. Printed by the Spiral Press (New York), 1957. A fine example.

Inscribed by Robert Frost to his cousin Joseph Frost and his wife Rebecca in Maine. Rare inscribed with this noteworthy association.

First appearing as Robert Frost's Christmas card in 1957, "My Objection to Being Stepped On" was an 18-line poem later published in his final volume of poetry In the Clearing, published in 1962.

Joseph William Pepperrell Frost (1923-2008) was a historian and writer from Maine who, throughout his life, would share a close bond with his cousin Robert. With about fifty years between them, the two first met when Joseph was a young boy during Robert and Elinor's visit to the Frost ancestral home in the late 1920s. Later, Joseph's college years would be marked with frequent visits to stay with his cousin, even accompanying Robert to some of his many speaking engagements. In adulthood, he dedicated part of his time to researching and compiling records related to Frost family genealogy, a collection of which is now housed within the Portsmouth Athenaeum of New Hampshire.

[Crane B29.]

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