Search Results: actfive and other poems by macleish archibald

New York: Random House, 1948. Book. Fine Minus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Second Printing - stated. Book is rigid with square boards, pointed tips and a tight spine. Appears unread. Bottom or text block slight wear. Jacket has loss/frey at top and bottom of spine and along most edges. Not price clipped. Jacket looks stylish now in its new shiny plastic wrapper..

New York: Random House, [1948]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm.); original cloth-backed boards in olive decorative price-clipped dust jacket; 63pp. Shallow chips and short closed tears to jacket extremities, spine rather sunned. Fine in Very Good jacket. Book designed by Meyer Wagman.

New York: Random House. Very Good. (1948). Hardcover. First Printing, 63pp., patterned paper covered boards, blue, gilt-stamped spine, a very good copy in a very good dj with some slight chipping to spine ends. .

NY: Random House, 1948. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 63. A fine copy in little chipped and faded dj. Mullaly A334.

New York: Random House, 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some chipping and tanning to the spine and rear panel.

The Bodley Head, London, 1950 (1st edition). 8vo, 64pp. Decorated boards. Name on f.f.e.p., endpapers slightly spotted, a very good copy in rubbed dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 63 pp, bound in decorative paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Mild rubbing to lower edge of boards, else a fine copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Theodore Green with respect, Archibald MacLeish." Dust jacket has a short closed tear to the upper front panel and some chipping along the top edge of the rear panel.

NY: Random House, 1948 Book. VG+. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. This unique collectible copy has a printed photo of the author from some third source pasted inside the front cover. Laid onto the flyleaf is an ANS (autograph note signed) by the author. Laid inside the rear cover is the envelope hand addressed by MacLeish from the Bahamas to the recipient in Portland, Maine..

NEW YORK, RANDOM HOUSE, 1948, 1948. DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED); ADVANCE REVIEW COPY FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover.

Random House. Good. 1948. Hardcover. Dj a wreck but no very large tears, just irritating small tears, chips, edge wear, scrapes with tears, etc. Nice long 60 word signed and dated inscription by author, including: "...why would no one review it? Because of The Irresponsibles? Probably...." Bookplate. First edition.; 9.0 X 7.0 X 1.0 inches; 63 pages .

New York, NY: Random House, 1948. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp. 63 [1]. Title page in two colours blue and black. Loosely inserted is an extract from 'The Explicator' published in May 1953 which critically analyses MacLeish's poem 'Hypocrite Auteur'. Publisher's blue quarter cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with blue and green patterned paper over boards. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at $2.50. A touch of light general wear. Jacket show toning to spine and some light wear and chipping to edges. Very good. Archibald MacLeish was an American writer and poet who fought in World War I. MacLeish believed that the end of the war marked the beginning of the new world and much of his earlier work focused around understanding the changing world around him. The elegiac poem Actfive explores the challenges MacLeish was facing after the loss of peace due to World War II. In this collection Actfive is placed alongside some twenty shorter pieces.

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, Inc., (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. 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 to winning three Pulitzer Prizes, MacLeish was commissioned by the NEW YORK TIMES to write a poem to celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing, which he entitled "Voyage to the Moon" and which appeared on the front page of the 21 July 1969 edition of the paper.

New York: Random House, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. New York: Random House, 1948. 1st Edition. First Edition. Inscribed Presentation by MacLeish on the ffe. "Dear Ted: The manuscript was near unfit to send you (you know how mss are) and the proof was too full of red crayon and now the book is here. I send you the print copy with trepidation and appreciation. Archie. July 19, 1948." TLS signed by MacLeish and accompanying envelope addressed from MacLeish's Uphill Farm and ALS to MacLeish from recipient "Theodore Spencer, North Hatley, Quebec.laid - in. 8vo. 63 pp. Near fine in publisher's original 1/4 navy blue cloth and patterned boards. Paper clip mark on rfe. and facing page. In a still very bright dustwrapper showing a bit of soiling & spotting and one closed tear on the back panel, paper clip stain on rear inner flap and wear to the heel and crown of the spine. Interesting copy. Theodore Spencer, [1902-1949] was an American poet &… Read More