signed first edition Hardcover
1923 · New York
by Robert Frost, with four woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes
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 (truncated)