Signed:
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Signed by Robert Frost in blue
ink. Illustrated dust jacket by J. J. Lankes
Robert Frost. From Snow to Snow. New York: Henry Holt
& Co., [1936]. 20 pages. 7-15/16 inches. First edition, second printing
(the first to have a dust jacket). Green cloth. Silver lettering on the cover.
The binding is age toned, lightly worn. The end pages are lightly foxed. The
dust jacket is age toned, has some nicks, chips and closed tears, slight soiling on the back.
A good copy in good dust jacket. [CRANE
A20.1.] The just jacket is illustrated with a winter scene woodcut by J. J.
Lankes. The frontispiece illustration is a facsimile of the manuscript: “Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Signed
by Robert Frost in blue ink under the printed signature.
Subtitled: "Mr. Frost's own selection of his most
appropriate poem for each month of the year."
"Storm Fear" (January); "A Winter Eden" (February); "To the Thawing Wind" (March); "Blue-Butterfly Day" (April); "Spring Pools" (May); "The Tuft of Flowers" (June); "The Mountain" (July); "The Oven Bird" (August); "The Cow in Apple Time"
(September); "The Road Not
Taken" (October); Good-Bye and Keep
Cold" (November); and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening" (December).
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Julius John Lankes (1884-1960)
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