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New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. First Edition. Very Good. First trade edition, first printing. An important presentation association copy signed and inscribed by Robert Frost with a quotation from the title poem: "'How high I'd thrust the peaks in summer snow/ To tap the upper sky and draw a flow/ Of frosty air on the vale below/ Down from the stars to freeze the dew as starry.' Robert Frost. For Ruth and Loring Dodd." Loring Dodd was a Clark University professor who "played host to Robert Frost after reading at Clark University on the night of 5 Jan. 1923," during which Dodd showed Frost copies of the poet's North of Boston (1914) and Mountain Interval (1916), into which he had inserted a selection of woodcuts by J.J. Lankes that he felt "fitted the poems as though drawn for them." It was out of this serendipitous encounter that Frost and Lankes's long-lasting collaborative friendship was born. New Hampshire was published ten months after Frost's encounter with Dodd and…

New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost that captures the essence of rural life in New England, brilliantly balancing themes of nature and human beings. One of its most famous poems is 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.'

First editions have the date '1923' on the title page, and 'Printed in U.S.A.' on the copyright page.