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Author: Frost, Robert
Title: Twenty Robert Frost Christmas Greetings from Spiral Press - one inscribed
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Spiral Press
Date Published: 1945-1962
Description:

20 pamphlets. Includes issues from the years 1945, 1949-1962, including 5 duplicates. (12mo) saddle stitched, pictorial wrappers. First separate editions.

The 1949 edition from Robert Frost was his personal keepsake, and is signed with a lengthy handwritten inscription: "Dear Harry [Owen], This is meant to sound like [strong?] New Year‘s resolutions such as those only have to truly who aren‘t doing as well as you say you are..."(the difficult-to-decipher inscription goes on for another 4 lines or so, and is signed, "Ever yours, R."). Also included is a letter from the recipient describing the visit with Frost and his signing the copy. One of the 1962 copies is from Frost as well, though not signed or inscribed. A scarce run of Robert Frost‘s Christmas poetry greetings from Spiral Press. Spiral Press enabled you to have your name printed in the greeting page, and included are greetings sent from William E. Buckley, Ann & Joseph Blumenthal, Walter I. Bradbury, Lesley & Stanislav Zimic and others, including Frost himself.

Comprises:

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  On Making Certain Anything Has Happened. From Marguerite and Fred Melcher. 1945.


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  On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To Hear Us Talk). (2 copies - From Robert Frost; William E. Buckley. Buckley‘s with original mailing envelope). 1949.


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  Doom to Bloom. From Marguerite and Fred Melcher. 1950.


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  A Cabin in the Clearing. From Eleanor & Alfred Edwards. 1951.


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  Does No One But Me at At Ever Feel This Way in the Least. From Eleanor & Al. 1952.


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  One More Brevity. From William Raney. 1953.


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  From a Milkweed Pod. From Mr. and Mrs. Edgar T. Rigg. 1954.


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  Some Science Fiction. From Ben Wright. 1955.


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  Kitty Hawk 1894. From Gwen and Ed Rigg. 1956.


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  My objection to being stepped on. Ann & Joseph Blumenthal. 1957.


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  Away! (2 copies - from Phyllis and William Prescott Frost; Leda and Stanley Burnshaw). 1958.


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  A-Wishing Well. (2 copies - From Walter I. Bradbury; Leda and Stanley Burnshaw). 1959.


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  Accidentally on Purpose. From Frederic S. Cushing. 1960.


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  The Wood-Pile. 1961. (2 copies - from Leda and Stanley Burnshaw: Lesley & Stanislav Zimic).


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  The Prophets Really Prophesy as Mystics The Commentators Merely By Statistics. (2 copies - From Robert Frost; Leda and Stanley Burnshaw) 1962 .

Occasional bit of edgewear to wrappers; all pieces near fine or better.