New Hampshire by Frost, Robert; J. J. Lankes, illustrator

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 113 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Quarter bound in green cloth with green paper boards, gilt lettering on spine, and gilt label on front cover. Boards have rubbing to corners exposing boards and mild shelf wear. Textblock has slight tearing to front interior hinge. Shelved Case 0. 1374570. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing, Early State Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Octavo, 113 pages. In Good minus condition with Good minus dust jacket. Light green spine with dark green text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and shows head edge of spine chipped off,chipping to edges of both covers and spine, open tearing to fore edge of both covers, closed tearing to edges, tearing to joints, and tape on inside of joints and fore edges. Boards show rubbing to corners exposing boards and mild edge wear. Textblock missing front endpaper. Early, but not First state dust jacket with Pulitzer Prize mentioned on front cover. Shelved Case 0. 1374110. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. First trade edition. Wear to the edges and dampstaining to the bottom portion of the spine and covers, with contemporary ownership inscription. Very Good, lacking the extremely scarce dustwrapper.. Signed and inscribed by Frost on the flyleaf. One of Frost's most notable books and winner of his first Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First trade edition. Near Fine. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Frost on the front free endpaper and dated 1930. Publisher's dark green paper covered boards backed with a green cloth spine with titles in gilt and gold title label on upper board; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine, with spine cloth slightly darkened; light edge wear. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; pages lightly toned. A bright copy featuring Frost's famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.

New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Few small open tears. Chipping at spine crown/heel. .

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. J. J. Lankes. This is a jacketed and inscribed first trade edition, first printing of the book that won Robert Frost his first Pulitzer Prize. Frost inked this copy in eight lines on the front free endpaper recto with the final five-line stanza of the poem Our Singing Strength (printed at p.110): Well, something for a snowstorm to have shown | The countrys singing strength thus brought together, | That through repressed and moody with the weather, | Was none the less there ready to be freed | And sing the wild flowers up from root and seed. | Robert Frost | For | John Stuart Groves. The sole previous ownership mark we find in the book is the small, illustrated Morocco bookplate of JOHN STUART GROVES affixed to the front pastedown. Groves (1881-1958) was an accomplished Delaware bibliophile. On 1 January 1933 Frost wrote Dear Mr. Groves: I shall be glad to write my name in your copies of my books. I have a warm place in… Read More

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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Robert Frost to Penelope Otis 1961." Near fine in the rare dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Uncommon signed and in the original dust jacket. 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.

New York: Henry Holt, 1923. First American Edition (Crane A6). Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (113 pages, 4 full page woodcuts, including frontispiece, by Lankes). The collection that won Frost his first Pulitzer Prize, containing the poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Fire and Ice," among others. This is the First Trade Edition, without dust jacket, inscribed and SIGNED in ink on the front free endpaper: “For Thomas Jacob, the best wishes of his Western friend, Robert Frost. Amherst, February 1924.” The book is in very good condition, with light rubbing to the cloth. Laid-in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Frost to Thomas Jacob, dated December 27, 1924, in the original envelope, together with a small sepia snapshot photograph of Frost, inscribed and signed in ink on the verso: “For Thomas Jacob, from his friend in the United States, Robert Frost.” Also present is one of the original proofs for illustrator J.J. Lanke’s frontis woodcut, inscribed in pencil… Read More