Mountain interval by Frost, Robert - 1916

New York: H. Holt and Company, 1916. First Edition, Second State. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titling framed on front and spine, lightly worn at extremities. Owner's name and title on front pastedown. Sewn binding is sound. Thick, soft rough-cut pages are lightly toned in margins. 12mo. Mountain Interval is Frost's third poetic volume published in America in 1916 by Henry Holt. It includes 'Birches' and the first appearance of the now well-known, 'The Road Not Taken'. This is the second state of the first edition, with the following corrections: The repeated line 6 on p. 88 has been removed and replaced, and the word 'Come' on p. 93 has been replaced with 'Gone'. Poems appear in this order: The Road Not Taken, Christmas Trees, An Old Man's Winter Night, A Patch of Old Snow, In the Home Stretch, The Telephone, Meeting and Passing, Hyla Brook, The Oven Bird, Bond and Free, Birches, Pea Brush, Putting in the Seed, A Time to Talk, The Cow in Apple Time, An Encounter, Range-Finding, The Hill Wife, The Bonfire, A Girl's Garden, The Exposed Nest, 'Out, Out-', Brown's Descent or the Willy-nilly Slide, The Gum-Gatherer, The Line-Gang, The Vanishing Red, Snow, The Sound of Trees.