Description
Author: Robert Frost
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Place: New York
Year: 1936
Edition: First trade edition, first printing
Format: Hardcover without dust jacket
Page Count: 102 pages
Condition: Good Plus. Original reddish-brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorative rules. The boards show uneven fading, discoloration, scattered staining, and light edge wear. Gilt remains legible. Interior pages show light age-toning but appear generally clean. No dust jacket. Photographs show the actual copy offered.
Description
Published in 1936, A Further Range is Robert Frost’s sixth collection of poetry and one of the defining books of his career. The collection received the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry—Frost’s third of four Pulitzer Prizes.
Alongside Frost’s familiar New England landscapes and rural voices, these poems engage more directly with the political and economic anxieties of the 1930s. Frost reflects upon industrialization, organized labor, individual freedom, social reform, family farming, and the changing relationship between people and the land.
The collection includes “Neither Out Far nor In Deep,” “A Roadside Stand,” “Provide, Provide,” “The Gold Hesperidee,” “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” and other poems that combine Frost’s apparent simplicity with philosophical and social complexity.
This copy is the 1936 first trade edition published by Henry Holt and Company, identifiable by the matching 1936 title and copyright pages with no later printing stated.
Why we love this book
This is an important first edition by one of America’s essential poets—not simply a later collection of familiar poems. It shows Frost widening his range beyond pastoral observation to address the pressures and uncertainties of American life during the Depression.
The absence of the dust jacket and wear to the cloth make this an approachable copy for someone who wants to own and read a genuine Frost first edition without paying the price commanded by a jacketed or signed example.