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Robert Frost. Complete set of the 8 variations of imprints of his Christmas keepsake "Closed for Good."...
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Robert Frost. Complete set of the 8 variations of imprints of his Christmas keepsake "Closed for Good." [New York: The Spiral Press, 1948].8 volumes, small 8vo. Publisher's blue-gray paper wrappers, title printed in white on the front cover; all housed together in a green cloth slipcase with matching chemise.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS BIOGRAPHY LAWRANCE THOMPSON on the imprint with Frost's own name (italics denote Frost's manuscript inscription): "This new poem * brings / Larry / Holiday Greetings from / Robert / Robert Frost / December 1948 / *in a set of 6."
Crane records that The Spiral Press printed 2,275 copies over 8 varying names (imprints) of this 1948 Christmas poem, the first appearance of "Closed for Good." "Closed for Good" would later be collected in Complete Poems of Robert Frost (1949) and included in Frost's final book, In the Clearing (1962). Here, Frost transmits one of each of the 8 variations. The names include his own; his typographer and wife (Ann & Joseph Blumenthal); his friend, neighbor, and the first to publish his poetry as chairman of Holt, Reinhart, Alfred C. Edwards; Glenn Gosling, director of the University of Michigan Press, which published some of Frost's works; his publisher, Henry Holt and Company; his friends Marguerite & Fred Melcher, who was a bookseller and publisher of The Publisher's Weekly; Margaret & Tom Nason, this title's artist and his wife; and others.
Lawrance Thompson (1906-1973) was an English professor and noted academic. He authored numerous books on American poets, including a three-part biography of Robert Frost. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 1971 for the second part of his biography of Frost.
Condition: Light wear to each imprint; thumbsoiling to the front cover of the Margaret & Tom Nason imprint.
References: Crane B19.
Provenance: Lawrance Thompson (presentation inscription). From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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