8vo. Title printed in red and black, frontispiece and numerous illustrations after watercolors by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. (Slight toning, some dampstaining to the gutter-margin at the head.) Original beige cloth decorated in maroon (dampstaining to the head and foot of the spine, a touch of rubbing to the corners); publisher's dust jacket (chipped with losses to each panel and affecting the "ert" in "Robert" at the head of spine, some toning and staining). Provenance: Ellen Kraft (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FROST to Kraft on pictorial front flyleaf: "Robert Frost Bread Loaf Vermont 1943 To Ellen Kraft." In the FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET. Crane A26. 

[Laid in:] 2 original black and white photographs of Frost. [Middlebury College, Ripton, VT, ca 1940s]. One photograph features the author at-bat in a game of baseball set in a meadow (numbered "34" verso), and the other of the author's back while standing amidst the group of lounging onlookers (numbered "35" verso). Frost spent 42 years, from 1921 to 1962, teaching at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont. Based on similar pictures of Frost playing baseball while at Middlebury College in the 1940s from the Middlebury College Archives, it seems likely these images were taken while Frost was on campus, perhaps attending the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.