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My objection to being stepped on : a new poem / by Robert Frost.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 F9298 957m
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas cards.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 14 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [Printed at The Spiral Press], [1957]
- Notes:
- "At Christmas 1957 this poem brings you the warmest Holiday greetings and good wishes from Robert Frost."
- Page 3 has a red-orange floral ornament (on 9 variants) and olive-green 8-pointed star (on 12 variants) before the Christmas message.
- "Copyright 1957 by Robert Frost."
- "Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin."
- White wove paper wrapper with flaps folded over. On the front cover is a wood engraving of an olive-green thistle with the title lettered in black. The back cover has the same engraving in black without the lettering.
- "The Spiral Press printed 8,290 copies, including 25 sets for Frost (525 copies). Nine varying names with a floral ornament on p. 3: Robert Frost (650); Lesley Frost and Joseph W. Ballantine (300); Esther and Leonard Baskin (100); Ann & Joseph Blumenthal (400); Lesley Lee Francis (75); Lillian Frost (70); Phyllis and William Prescott Frost (125); Marguerite and Fred Melcher (175); Elinor and Malcolm Wilbur [sic] (95). Twelve varying names with a 8-pointed star ..."--Cf. Crane.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class collection copy has red-orange floral ornament on p. 3.
- Cited in:
- Crane, J. St. C. : Robert Frost a descriptive catalogue ..., B29
- OCLC:
- 63664206
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