The Robert Frost Collection

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was one of America's leading 20th century poets, and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Frost attended Harvard College from 1897 to 1899. In the ten years following his departure from Harvard, he wrote poems, operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and taught at Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, he sold his farm and took his family to England, to devote himself to writing. A Boy's Will was published in 1913, followed by North of Boston in 1914. The Frosts moved back to the U.S. in Feb. 1915, following the U.S. publication of North of Boston. His third book, Mountain Interval, was published in 1916. In 1924, Robert Frost received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for New Hampshire. He was honored with the award three more times, for Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943). Some of his most well known poems include: "The Death of the Hired Man" (from North of Boston), "The Road Not Taken" and "Birches" (from Mountain Interval), and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (from New Hampshire).

Frost held a number of academic positions throughout his life as well. He was a Professor of English at Amherst College in 1917-1920, 1923-1925, and 1926-1938, as well as Simpson Lecturer in Literature in 1949-1963. Frost was also a fellow at Michigan, Yale, Harvard, and Dartmouth.

The Robert Frost Collection is a comprehensive collection of books by and about Robert Frost containing many works annotated by Frost. The collection contains over 200 items. Included in the collection are boxed sets of custom Christmas cards and pamphlets designed and annotated by Frost. The collection was purchased in 1968 from William Britton Stitt, who was a personal friend and college fraternity brother of Frost.

A guide to the collection is available in the Curator's office. Additionally, there is a guide available which lists the printers of the variant issues of the Christmas cards designed by Frost.

Items in the Robert Frost Collection are non-circulating. Researchers may view the collection in the Maryland Room on the first floor of Hornbake Library, Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The telephone number is (301) 405-9212.

Table of Contents

• Books by Robert Frost - listed alphabetically by title
• Cards and Pamphlets- listed alphabetically by title

Books

• Aforesaid, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1954, limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A614 1954

• The Augustan Books Of Poetry, London, Ernest Benn Ltd., 1932.
  RARE RARSTK PR6013.A5G3

• A Boy's Will, London, David Nutt, 1913, first edition. Includes first American edition (1915).
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94B6 1913

• Collected Poems, New York, Random House, 1930, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94 1930b

• Collected Poems Of Robert Frost, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1939, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94 1939b

• Come In And Other Poems, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1943, first edition. Includes armed services, British, and large print (1967) editions.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94C66 1943

• Complete Poems of Robert Frost, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1950, limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511 1950 V.1, V.2

• Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1949.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94 1949

• The Cow's In The Corn, Gaylordsville, CT, Slide Mountain Press, 1929, only edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94C6 1929

• From Snow To Snow, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1936, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R9F7 1936

• A Further Range, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1936. Includes first English edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94F8 1936

• The Gold Hesperidee, Courtland, NY, Bibliophile Press, 1935, first edition. Includes English edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94G6 1935

• Hard Not To Be King, New York, House Of Books, 1951, limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94H27 1951

• In The Clearing, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962, first edition. Includes limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94I5

• The Letters of Robert Frost To Louis Untermeyer, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963, first edition. Includes advanced proof of English edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94Z53

• The Lone Striker, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94L6 1933

• A Masque Of Mercy, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1947, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94M26

• A Masque Of Reason, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1944, first edition. Includes limited edition, (1945) and first British edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94M27 1945

• Mountain Interval, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1916, first edition. Includes second edition (1921).
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94M6 1916

• New Hampshire, London, Grant Richards Ltd., 1924. Includes limited edition (1923).
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94N4 1923

• New Hampshire: A Poem, Hanover, NH, New Dresden Press, 1955, first separate edition, limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94N4 1955

• North Of Boston, London, David Nutt, 1914, first edition. Includes the second and third American editions and a limited edition (1919).
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94N6 1914b

• An Old Man's Winter Night, Northampton, MA, Hampshire Bookshop, 1924, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94O43 1924

• The Pocket Book Of Robert Frost's Poems, New York, Pocket Books, Inc., 1946.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94C66 1946

• The Poetry Of Robert Frost, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94 1969

• The Poetry Of Robert Frost, Barre, MA, Imprint Society, 1971, limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94 V.1, V.2

• The Road Not Taken: An Introduction To Robert Frost, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1951.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A6 1962

• Robert Frost, March 26, 1959, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1959, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A6 1959b

• Selected Letters, New York, Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1964, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94Z52 1964

• Selected Poems, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1923, first edition. Includes second edition, third edition, first English edition (1923), and revised edition (1928).
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A6 1928

• Selected Poems, London, Jonathan Cape, 1936, first editon.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A6 1936

• Selected Poems, Harmondsworth Middlesex, England, Penguin Books, 1955, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A6 1955

• Selected Poems Of Robert Frost, New York, Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1963.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A6 1963

• Selected Prose, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A16 1966

• Several Short Poems, New York, Henry Holt and Co., (1924).
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A6 1924

• The Sound Of The Trees, New York, Poet's Guild, (1930), first separate printing.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94S68 1930

• Steeple Bush, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1947, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94S7 1947

• Two Letters Written On His Undergraduate Days At Dartmouth College in 1892, Hanover, NH, Printer's Devil Press, 1931.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94T8 1931

• Twilight: A Facsimilie, Charlottesville, VA, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, 1966, limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94T78 1894b

• A Way Out, New York, Harbor Press, 1929, limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94W3 1929

• West-Running Brook, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1928, first edition. Includes limited edition (1928).
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94W4 1928

• A Witness Tree, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1942, first edition. Includes limited edition (1942).
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94W5

• You Come Too; Favorite Poems For Young Readers, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1959, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A6 1959

Cards and Pamphlets

• Accidentally On Purpose, New York, Spiral Press, 1960, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A613 1960

• Amherst College New Year's Card, Amherst College, 1931.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A64 1931

• Amherst College New Year's Card, Amherst College, 1950.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A644 1950

• Amherst College New Year's Card, Amherst College, 1953
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A645 1953

• Away, New York, Spiral Press, 1958, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94A92 1958

• Birches, Middlebury, Vermont, Bread Loaf School of English, (1929), first separate printing. Includes second separate printing.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94B57 1929

• A Cabin In The Clearing, New York, Spiral Press, 1951, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94C23 1951

• Carpe Diem, New York, Spiral Press, 1938, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94C27 1938

• Christmas Trees, New York, Spiral Press, 1929, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94C47 1929

• Closed For Good, New York, Spiral Press, 1948, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94C56 1948

• Does No One But Me At All Ever Feel This Way In The Least, New York, Spiral Press, 1952.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94D64 1952

• Doom To Bloom, New York, Spiral Press, 1950, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94D66 1950

• Everybody's Sanity, Los Angeles, 1936, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94E94 1936

• Four Beliefs, Hanover, NH, Ray Nash, 1944.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94F69 1944

• From A Milkweed Pod, New York, Spiral Press, 1954, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94F76 1954

• The Gift Outright, New York, Spiral Press, 1942, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R9454 1942

• Greece, Chicago, Black Rose Press, 1948, limited edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94G74 1948

• The Guardeen, Los Angeles, Ward Richie Press, 1943.
  RARE SPCFOL PS3511.R94G82 1943

• I Could Give All To Time, New York, Brogle & Co., 1941, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94I12 1941

• Kitty Hawk 1894, New York, Spiral Press, 1956, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94K58 1956

• My November Guest, New York, Poet's Guild, (1930), first separate printing.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R83M9 1930

• My Objection To Being Stepped On, New York, Spiral Press, 1957, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94M9 1957

• Neither Out Far Nor In Deep, New York, Spiral Press, 1935, only edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94N45 1935

• On A Tree Fallen Across The Road, New York, Spiral Press, 1949, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94O512 1949

• On The Inflation Of The Currency, Earl J. Bernheimer, 1948.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94O58 1948

• On Making Certain Anything Has Happened, New York, Spiral Press, 1945, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R9405 1945

• One More Brevity: A New Poem, New York, Spiral Press, 1953.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94O542 1953

• One Step Backward Taken, New York, Spiral Press, 1947, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94O54 1947

• Orris C. Manning Memorial, 1946, Ripton, Vermont, 1946, first separate printing.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94O78 1946

• Our Hold On The Planet, 1940.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94O97

• The Prophets Really Prophesy As Mystics, The Commentators merely By Statistics, New York, Spiral Press, 1962, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94P76 1962

• The Runaway, New York, Poet's Guild, (1930), first separate printing.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94R85 1930

• Some Science Fiction, New York, Spiral Press, 1955, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94S66 1955

• To A Young Wretch, New York, Spiral Press, 1937, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94T6 1937

• Triple Plate, New York, Spiral Press, 1939, first separate edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94T75 1939

• Two Leading Lights, Los Angeles, Ward Richie Press, 1944.
  RARE SPCFOL PS3511.R94T87 1944

• Two Tramps In Mud Time, New York, Spiral Press, 1934, only edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94T86 1934

• An Unstamped Letter In Our Rural Letter Box, New York, Spiral Press, 1944.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94U57 1944

• A-Wishing Well, New York, Spiral Press, 1959, first edition.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94W57 1959

• The Wood-Pile, New York, Spiral Press, 1961.
  RARE SPCSTK PS3511.R94W66 1961

• A Young Birch, New York, Spiral Press, 1946, first edition.
  RARE SPC STKS PS3511.R94Y68 1946

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