Note: This is a separate work from the 1930 and 1942 editions titled also Collected Poems.
| RFA 39 1939 | First printing, U.S. issue without signed inserted leaf. 3 copies. *Copy 1 is inscribed by Frost to John and Virginia Adams, Springfield, Ohio, October 27, 1939, with eight and a half lines from “Birches” (here with the title “Birches in an ice storm”; with some substantive variants). Gift of the Estate of Virginia Adams. *Copy 2 is inscribed by Frost to George F. Whicher (Class of 1910), June 15, 1939; in dust jacket. Gift of the Estate of George F. Whicher. *Copy 3 is inscribed by Frost to Howard (sic; i.e. Harold) J. Baily (Class of 1908), 1939; with the full text of “On a Tree Fallen across the Road”; in dust jacket. Gift of Mrs. Harold J. Baily. |
| RFA 39 1939a | First printing, U.S. issue with a leaf inserted at front, signed by Frost. 8 copies. Note: The placement of the signature on the page varies; Frost has sometimes added the place as well, as noted. *Copy 1 has Frost’s signature in the middle of the inserted leaf; leather booklabel of Walter Chrysler and bookplate of Jack W. C. Hagstrom (Class of 1955); in dust jacket. Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom. *Copy 2 has Frost’s signature in the middle of the inserted leaf; from the library of John McChesney (Class of 1908); with his pencil notes on several leaves. Gift of John McChesney, in memory of Mary Scoville McChesney. *Copy 3 has Frost’s signature in the middle of the inserted leaf; from the library of E. Porter Dickinson; in dust jacket. Gift of the Estate of E. Porter Dickinson. *Copy 4 has Frost’s signature in the middle of the inserted leaf, with the date “1939” written below it; from the library of Martin K. Howes (Class of 1926); in dust jacket. Gift of the Estate of Martin K. Howes. *Copy 5 has Frost’s signature at upper right of the inserted leaf, with “Ripton Vermont” written below it, and the number “54” (in another hand) in the upper right corner; also inscribed by Frost to E. Merrill Root (Class of 1917) “with constant affection,” Christmas 1941; in damaged dust jacket. Gift of E. Merrill Root. *Copy 6 has Frost’s signature in the middle of the inserted leaf, in an uncharacteristic black ink, with “Boston” written below it; from the library of Newton F. McKeon (Class of 1926), with his pencil note tipped in (apparently either in error or referring to a different copy, as it mentions the inscription being dated “1940”; perhaps taken from a bookseller’s description before he had seen the book); in dust jacket. Gift of Mary Maury McKeon. *Copy 7 has Frost’s signature in the middle of the inserted leaf, with “Boston | South Shaftsbury” written below it; in dust jacket; accompanied by two clippings of poems about Frost (“For Robert Frost” by Dorothy Bryne Dawson, with the ms.; “Reading by Robert Frost” by Marjorie Somers Scheurer, which have been removed and placed in file with call number: File RFA 39 1939a c.7 add). Gift of Martha Overton Myers. *Copy 8 has Frost’s signature at the upper right, underlined, with the number “1” (in another hand) in the upper right corner; this copy was in the publisher’s archive ca. 1990; in dust jacket. Gift of Henry Holt and Co. *Copy 9 has Frost’s signature in the middle of the inserted leaf, with “The Glades | Coconut Grove | Florida 1939” below it; from the library of Hugo T. Saglio (Class of 1931). Gift of the Estate of Hugo T. Saglio. |
| RFA 39 1939aa | First printing, U.K. issue (with the signed inserted leaf). * Copy 1. Signed by Frost in the middle of the inserted leaf; also inscribed by Frost to George [Whicher] (Class of 1910), “Monday Evening, January 8th, 1945, Cambridge, Massachusetts”; with the full text of “The night light” (dated by Frost “circa 1930”). Purchased. |
| RFA 39 1939b | First Halcyon House printing, March 1939. 2 copies. *Copy 1 is signed by Frost on the front free endpaper; bookplate of Jack W. C. Hagstrom (Class of 1955); in dust jacket. Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom. *Copy 2 is from the library of Katharine C. Cowles; in dust jacket. Gift of Katharine C. Cowles. |
| RFA 39 1939c | Second Halcyon House printing, April 1939. 1 copy. *Copy 1. Source unknown. |
| RFA 39 1939d | Third Halcyon House printing, January 1940. 1 copy. *Copy 1. From the library of Newton F. McKeon (Class of 1926); in dust jacket. Gift of Newton F. McKeon. |
| RFA 39 1939da | U.K. issue (Jonathan Cape) of sheets of a U.S. printing (probably the third Halcyon House printing) with a cancel title leaf. 2 copies. *Copy 1 has the bookplate of Jack W. C. Hagstrom (Class of 1955). Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom. *Copy 2 is in dust jacket. Source unknown. |