Robert Frost. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Stated first edition. BCE (book club edition). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Jacket design by the great Lawrence Ratzkin. No writing or markings found in the book, 607 pp.
A distinguished single-volume edition of America’s quintessential modern poet, this 1969 first edition collects all eleven of Robert Frost’s individual books of verse, carefully edited and annotated by his longtime friend and literary executor Edward Connery Lathem. Bound in tan paper-covered boards with a cloth spine, and complete with the original dust-jacket.
✳️ Overview
This volume remains one of the most accessible ways to read Frost’s complete poetry in a single, well-crafted hardcover. Though a book-club issue, it uses the same setting and design as the original trade edition and has long been cherished by readers and students alike.
A handsome single-volume collection of Robert Frost’s complete poetic works, edited by his friend and literary executor Edward Connery Lathem. This 1969 omnibus brings together all eleven of Frost’s books of verse — from A Boy’s Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962) — in one definitive edition.
