Note 5 — VII. “INTO MY OWN”
Reading edition
Five printings of North of Boston were called for in its first year, and ten more have been needed since. Its sale has been phenomenal for a book of poetry, and in 1926 it even led the author’s later books, though each of them has been steadily in demand ever since it appeared. New Hampshire, A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, which was issued in 1923, comes next in popularity to North of Boston, requiring five large printings. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for that year, while one of the poems included in that volume, namely, The Witch of Coos, won the prize offered by Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1922. Mountain Interval has also required five printings, and the Selected Poems are now in their fourth printing.
In London New Hampshire has appeared under the imprint of Grant Richards, Ltd., and the Selected Poems under that of William Heinemann.
In addition to their regular editions, a de luxe volume of North of Boston, illustrated in line by James Chapin, appeared in 1919, and a de luxe edition of New Hampshire, with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes, who also decorated the regular edition, came out in 1923.