New Hampshire. by FROST, Robert - 1923: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.

New York: Henry Holt & Company,, 1923. The woods are lovely, dark and deep... First edition, first printing, of the author's landmark collection, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. It includes his celebrated poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Fire and Ice". "It becomes more and more apparent that Robert Frost is New England's most authentic poet, and by authentic poet we mean the most sincere, foursquare, and forthright who has tried to lay a finger on the slow and positive pulse of the New England north of Boston and sound the secret of its heart. He is of the hills of New Hampshire - 'Taunted', perhaps, as Emerson says, 'with little men', and he knows them as well as Yeats knows Ireland or Swinburne knew the North Sea" (McCord, quoted in Pride). Octavo. Original green quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black paper-covered boards, gilt title label to front cover, brown patterned endpapers. Woodcut frontispiece, 3 full-page woodcuts and 2 vignettes, all by J. J. Lankes. Lightly worn at extremities, faint marks to boards, contents clean. A very good copy. Crane A6. Mike Pride, "A Forgotten Review of Robert Frost's 'New Hampshire'", The Pulitzer Prizes, available online.