[Signed] Collected Poems by Robert Frost. (Signed by Frost at Ripton, i.e., Breadloaf) Robert Frost [ ] [Hardcover]

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1939. Thick octavo. Photographic portrait frontispiece; illustrated title-page; 436 pp. Original publisher s decorative cloth binding. Lacking dustwrapper. Old newspaper clipping related to Frost laid in at rear, causing offsetting to adjacent endpaper. Crane A23. Overall, a very good copy. First edition, first printing, signed by Frost on a preliminary blank: ""Robert Frost Ripton."" Ripton, Vermont, was Frost s longtime summer residence and the site of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, where he was a central figure for decades. Bread Loaf remains the oldest continuing writers conference in the United States. The front free endpaper bears a warm presentation to Llewellyn Jones, longtime editor and critic for The Chicago Evening Post: ""To Llewellyn Jones from four friends who have enjoyed knowing you and who will miss you very much. Florence T. Adams, May L. Phelps, Dorothy Bradford, Christina Gray Smith."" This volume gathers all the poems originally published in North of Boston, New Hampshire, and A Further Range, along with the selected works from A Boy s Will, Mountain Interval, and West-Running Brook as collected in the 1930 edition of Collected Poems. It also includes the first appearance of Frost s introduction, ""The Figure a Poem Makes."" A notable association copy, linking Frost with an important American critic and signed at the heart of his literary community.