Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Original blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, in publishers slipcase with a paper label on the front. One of 500 copies printed at the Black Sun Press. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, a Review Copy with the review slip laid in. INSCRIBED "For Lee & J/with my love" and SIGNED in March 1958 by the poet on the half-title page. Also included are two playbills, including one for the premiere performance on.....
[New York]: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4" x 6") bound in full mustard morocco leather with gilt lettering on the spine and an elaborate peacock and floral design blindstamped on both covers; 80 pages. The text is carefully selected from the five various editions of Edward Fitzgerald's translation.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. A book of portraits, one of which, "Julia," was the source of the movie of the same title. A special edition reserved for friends of the author and publisher with a tipped-in leaf SIGNED by Hellman stating such.
n.p. n.d. [1970s]. First Edition. Softcover. Three large (11-1/8" x 15") sheets of thick deckle-edged paper folded to make 12 pages reproducing the manuscript of a poem by MacLeish written in 1929. Not to be confused with the 1935 book publication printed by Ward Ritchie. Archibald MacLeish was not only.....
(Conway, MA): (1973). First Edition. Softcover. Large (11-1/8" x 15") single sheet of thick deckle-edged paper folded to make 4 pages containing an essay on Ezra Pound by MacLeish. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position.....
Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1960. First Edition. Broadside. Large (10-1/4" x 14") broadside on heavy paper printed in black and red. A tribute to Archibald MacLeish's mother, once president of Rockford College in Illinois. Uncommon, not to be confused with the rather common 1949 biography with the same title. Archibald.....
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1954). First Edition. Softcover. Printed stapled wraps (7-1/2" x 10"); 12 pages including covers. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize and promote the institution.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Two copies, the Trade Edition and the Limited Edition, both housed together in a white cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered maroon spine label. The Limited Edition, one of 500 SIGNED copies, is in the original tissue dustwrapper and slipcase. The Trade.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the poet on the title page. In the uncommon original printed envelope and housed in a specially made green cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs. A series of poetic captions to photographs by Depression era photographers including Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, and others. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress.....
Greenfield, MA: Greenfield Community College, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Printed stiff wraps (6-1/2" x 10"); 4 pages plus covers. Laid in is a one-sheet program for the college's production of MacLeish's AIR RAID. Speakers included Donald Hall and William Heyen. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also.....
(New York): (Alfred A. Knopf), n.d. [1932]. Leja Gorska. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial blue-green stitched wraps in original mailing envelope; 4 pages plus covers. Illustrated by Leja Gorska. Number 3 of the Borzoi Chapbooks series with a small broadside prospectus for the series laid in. Archibald MacLeish was not only.....
Worcester (MA): Achille J. St. Onge, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. A miniature book (2-1/8" x 2-7/8") in full navy leather with a facsimile of the author's signature gilt-stamped on the front cover, all edges gilt; 63, [1] pages. One of 1250 copies with a frontispiece portrait of the author tipped.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth in tissue dustwrapper and slipcase. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize and promote.....
Photograph. A 5" x 7" black-and-white photograph by Jill Krementz SIGNED by the poet on his arm with the photographer's stamp on the verso with some pencil notes. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he.....
[New Haven]: [Yale University], 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Printed wraps, 5-1/2" x 6-15/16"; 4 pages with the title on the first page and the poem on the following three pages. First edition of the author’s first separately published work. About 600 copies were printed and distributed to the Class Day.....
New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1937). First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize and promote the institution. In.....
Washington DC: 17 May 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled printed tan wraps; 16 pages plus covers. Includes a photograph of MacLeish, a brief biographical sketch, and a 9-page essay by MacLeish titled "Conversation with the Moon." Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Warmly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet filling the front endpaper: "Dear Helen, Dear David:/Would I write my name in/your copy of my poems,/David asks. Your names are/written so large in my life/--in the best years of my/life--that it is simple/minor truthfulness.....
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize and promote the institution. In addition.....
(Northampton, MA): (The Gehenna Press), (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. String-bound blue-gray wraps in slipcase with printed paper label on the front, extra label laid in. Housed in a specially made blue cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered blue morocco leather spine. One of an unstated limitation of 400 copies written.....
New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pierce, (1944). First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of radio dramas about America. An Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page incorporating the book's title: "For J & Lee/true friends of the foe/of/SCRATCH/and the believers in/Mr. Webster's Republic,/with the lasting love of/Archibald MacLeish" on 14 February 1972. Laid in is an invitation to.....
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. First British Edition. Hardcover. One of 1000 copies. This long poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is based on the writings of Bernal Diaz del Castillo as well as on Macleish's own travels iin Mexico. Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet.....
