From Snow to Snow.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. Second printing from the first edition plates. Hardcover. This is a notably clean second printing in the dust jacket. This edition saw two printings issued in three different bindings in 1936. This second printing is the most handsome, bound in fine green linen cloth stamped in silver on the front cover, and issued in a dust jacket printed in green on heavy white paper with a prominent front cover illustration. This second printing was from the original plates with identical contents to the first edition, but gathered in fours with blank flyleaves at front and back.
Condition of this copy is very good plus in a very good dust jacket. The green cloth is clean, bright, and tight with sharp corners. and no apparent wear. We would grade this copy as better than near fine if not for a faint moisture stain to the lower left front cover. The contents are clean, mildly age-toned but free of any soiling or spotting. The sole previous ownership mark is a gift inscription inked in three lines on the front free endpaper recto: "Margaret | from Rosamund - | Christmas - 1945." The dust jacket is nearly complete, with only fractional loss to the spine ends and flap fold corners, but nonetheless a bit toned with overall light wear to extremities, including a short split at the spine. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.
The titular "From Snow to Snow" delimits a year, spanning January through December, for each month of which Frost selected a poem. These twelve are, in order, "Storm Fear," "A Winter Eden," "To The Thawing Wind," "Blue-Butterfly Day," "Spring Pools," "The Tuft of Flowers," "The Mountain," "The Oven Bird," "The Cow in Apple Time," "The Road Not Taken," "Good-Bye and Keep Cold," and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." The frontispiece is a facsimile signed manuscript of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
In 1936, when this second edition was published, Robert Frost (1874-1963) was still ascending to the dizzying literary heights that would let him spend his final years as “the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century” with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Only weeks after publication of From Snow To Snow came publication of a new collection, A Further Range, which, in 1937, won Frost his third Pulitzer Prize.
References: Crane A20; Tuten and Zubizarreta; ANB. Item #008745
Price: $150.00