Kitty Hawk, 1894 by Robert Frost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.

Contributor:

Fasconi, Antonio.

Spiral Press.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas cards.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Westlake, Neda M. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Printed at the Spiral Press], [1956]

Notes:

"Christmas 1956 and this new poem bring you the warmest greetings for the holidays and the new year from Robert Frost."

"Copyright 1956 by Robert Frost."

"Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi."

Front cover has title lettered in red-brown imposed on a woodcut map in pale yellow, red-brown, dark gray, blue-gray and white which extends over both covers.

"The Spiral Press printed 7,000 copies, including 25 set for Frost (525 copies). Twenty-one varying names: Robert Frost (600) ..."--Cf. Crane.

"After this first appearance, Robert Frost revised the poem 'Kitty Hawk' three times. The second version, much altered and expanded to 432 lines, was printed in the Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1957) ... A new poem of 64 lines with the title 'The Great Event is Science. The Great Misgiving, The Fear of God, is That the Meaning of it Shall be Lost' was printed in the Saturday Review (21 March 1959). This poem contained 33 lines excerpted from the second version. The final version, having 471 lines, provided the central theme for Frost's last book, 'In the Clearing' (1962). It incorporates the 64-line poem in its entirety, discards sections of version two, and contains further text written for this version."--Cf. Crane.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy p. 3 has inscription: For the University of Pennsylvania Library by Miss Neda Westlake from Robert Frost with regards.

Cited in:

Crane, J. St. C. : Robert Frost a descriptive catalogue ..., B28

OCLC:

13256449