N. Y.: Henry Holt (1928). First edition, presumed first state without the words "First edition" on the copyright page. Crane A10. An intriguing association copy, inscribed on the title-page: "For Theodore Roethke / Robert Frost, Ann Arbor 1930." In 1930, Theodore Roethke was a twenty-two year old graduate student in the English Department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Frost was on a reading tour of the west, and evidently stopped at the University of Michigan, where he had been Poet in Residence in 1921. In later years, Frost and Roethke met several times, often at Breadloaf, the School for Creative Writing run by Middlebury College in Vermont. In 1962, when Roethke received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, of which Frost was then honorary president, Roethke toasted Frost with the following verse: "I like New England men / Their women now and then / Of poets they've the most / But mostly Robert Frost." Coincidentally, both Roethke and Frost received honorary doctorates from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor later in 1962. The poets had lunch together, and as Allan Seager, Roethke's biographer, records: "Ted, who had long since lost his respect for Frost as a poet, saying that his New England was a mere literary convention, had kept his respect for Frost, the ancient oracle, and he did not try to shine." Both poets died the next year, Frost in January at the age of 89, Roethke in August at 55. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards with pictorial label on the front cover. Lacking the dust jacket, very slight wear at corners of the covers, otherwise a very good copy.