North of Boston - A very good copy of Robert Frost's 2nd published book of Poetry from Henry Holt and Company, New York. This is the December 1924 printing signed but not personalized by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet on the front free endpaper: "Robert Frost South Shaftsbury Vermont. (This would place the signature in the late 20's or early 30's after he bought the South Shaftsbury farm in 1929.) An inscription from the previous owner on the blank preliminary page reads, "Beth Hemsworth Ritchings, Bread Loaf, Vermont 1926." This was the very first Bread Loaf Writers Conference founded by Robert Frost and Willa Cather in the summer of 1926. Now the oldest and most prestigious writers conference in the country. 8vo. 137 pages - Publishers paper over cloth boards with gilt stamped titles to the front and spine. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Light edgewear with corners lightly bumped and softening to the spine tips. A few finger smudges to the paper boards, toning to the endpages with a small split in the paper along the upper gutter of the front pastedown and a bit of offsetting to a number of interior pages. 
 
1954 Christmas Greetings from Robert Frost - Tipped into the back of the book is a 1954 Christmas card with a new poem entitled "From a Milkweed Pod." One of 594 cards printed for Frost by the Spiral Press. It comes in an envelope addressed from Bread Loaf, Vermont in July of 1953 to his longtime friend and colleague, Professor Otto Manthey-Zorn at Amherst College in Massachusetts. A return address on the back from "Frost Ripton, Vermont," not in Frost handwriting. It is well known that on occasion Frost would send Holiday cards to his friends in mid-summer if he felt the poem’s theme was better suited for Independence Day rather than Christmas. Frost was living at The Homer Nobel Farm in Ripton, near Middlebury College at the time the card was sent.