From snow to snow/ by Robert Frost.

Title:

From snow to snow/ by Robert Frost.

Author:

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963,

Call Number:

811 FV97f

Publication Information:

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936.

Physical Description:

20 p.; 20.5cm.

Series Title:

Kathleen Van Der Aue Robert Frost Collection.

Description:

This collection of 12 poems, one for each month of the year, was first printed for the convention of the Department of Superintendent of the National Education Association in St. Louis, MO, and was distributed to the members in February, 1936. In April 300 additional copies of this printing were used to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Hampshire Bookshop in Northhampton, MA. In November, 1936, the remaining 1,200 copies of the original printing were bound and sold for $.75 each. Holt issued a second printing of the plates (of which this is a copy) on December 1, 1936 and 1,200 additional copies on December 24, 1936. Robert Frost used these copies for Christmas cards for his friends for Christmas 1936.

The poems included in this card are: 1. January: Storm Fear; 2. February:A Winter Eden; 3.March: To the Thawing Wind; 4.April: Blue Butterfly Day; 5.May: Spring Pools; 6.June: The Tuft of Flowers; 7. July: The Mountain; 8.August:The Oven Bird; 9.September:The Cow in Apple Time;10.October: The Road Not Taken; 11. November: Good-bye and Keep Cold; 12.December: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.

[This card is a part of the Holiday Greetings from Frost scrapbook; 811 FV97.]

Subjects:

Christmas cards. , Poetry.

People:

Van Der Aue, Kathleen,

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