A Further Range

Book Six

by Robert Frost 

First edition, signed.  Henry Holt and Company, 1936  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Speckled tan covers are mostly clean.  Boards show a little exposure, edgewear.  Corners are sharp.  
• Spine has leather label with gilt and is a little darkened, with frayed ends.  
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have gift inscriptions.  
• Interior is gently age-toned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges. 
• PS2025.1204

102 pages. 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches

First printing, “Limited edition”; this is #196 of 803 numbered, signed copies published May 20, 1936.  Signed by Robert Frost on the limitation page, and again on the end paper with an inscription to Everett V. Meeks, May 1936.  No glassine dust jacket, no slip-case.  Condition is overall Very Good, with some toning at periphery and edgewear to the cloth.  

This book won Robert Frost (1874-1963) his third Pulitzer Prize. The work's poems are grouped in sections titled "Taken Doubly," "Taken Singly," "Ten Mills," "The Outlands," "Build Soil," and the Afterthought, "A Missive Missile."

Association copy; Frost inscribed his book on the front end paper "To Everett V. Meeks, from Robert Frost, May 1936."  Everett V. Meeks (1879-1954), a contemporary of Frost's, was an architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Fine Arts.

A second inscription follows, to "W.C.H. on this birthday,... from Don Renhart."

This first printing of A Further Range was completed by the Spiral Press in New York in May 1936.  The Spiral Press was an American fine press founded by Joseph Blumenthal (1897-1990) in 1926.  Between 1926 and its closure in 1971, the press designed and printed books for or by Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.   

The second printing (first trade printing) bears the words "First Printing" on the verso of the title leaf.  The printing and publishing history of this work is complicated; details are given by Joan St. C. Crane, Robert Frost: A Descriptive Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, 1974).

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