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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). 36pp.

New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1938). First Edition. Boards. 2nd printing . Sm 4to., 36 pp., cover rubbed, frayed, page toning .

Harcourt Brace, June 1938. Hardcover Hardcover. Good/Good. Good Hardcover with Good Dustjacket. DJ in mylar. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to DJ, including a few small tears. DJ sunned. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped. Inside covers and endpapers lightly soiled. Some pages mildly soiled. Pages tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

UsedAcceptable. Orange cloth boards w/black text. No DJ, likely as issued. Some light soiling with age. Previous owner's name written on inside cover but text is otherwise clean. Nice copy.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938.. First ed. Good in orange paper-covered boards; no dust jacket. Ex-lib with usual markings on inside, none on on outside (call number label has been carefully removed); some stains and bumps; a several-inch tear to the paper covering along the spine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Bookplate else fine in spine-sunned, else near fine dustwrapper.

Harcourt, Brace And Company, New York, 1938. Second Edition. Hardback. A good copy in the publisher's original title-printed boards. Slightest suggestion of dust-dulling and toning, with some edgewear. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 36 pages

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a spine-sunned, else near fine dustwrapper.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tiny gift inscription, else fine in spine-sunned, else near fine dustwrapper.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

NEW YORK, HARCOURT, 1938, 1938. DUST JACKET; ADVANCE REVIEW COPY FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover.

Harcourt Brace. Good. 1938. Hardcover. SIGNED by author on end paper. Thin orange cloth very good, dj lightly faded.; 9.2 X 6.1 X 0.6 inches; 36 pages .

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1939. First UK edition. DJ rubbed, tanned and chipped. Gutters lightly cracked, small owner name to ffep, the odd lightl pencil note, else clean and tidy. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo.

Harcourt Brace. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Good dust jacket. Owner's name on front endpapers. Dampstained. In protective mylar cover. (Aeronautics, Radio Plays, Drama)

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1939 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9" by 6". None. The first UK edition of this verse play from American modernist poet Archibald MacLeish, following a town's inhabitants during an air raid. The first UK edition of American poet and writer Archibald Macleish's Second World War radio drama, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Remarked upon as 'a most timely allegory of the annihilation of Christian idealism' by the dust wrapper, and staged by the BBC, the theme is the 'life and death of a nameless town in Europe' as they await for the arrival of enemy bombers.With the stamp of the 'Council of Education Library' to the front free endpaper, title page, half title, and page 1. No further library markings. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper back strip lightly age toned, with small losses to head and tail. Small ink library number to head of rear wrap, and ink marks to front wrap.… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1939. [Radio Play] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 36 [4]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket priced at 3/6. A pair of blue ink ownerships to front endpapers. Some light toning and spotting to endpapers. Jacket lightly toned, more-so to spine and flap joints, with a couple of small chips and some rubbing to edges. Very good. A prophetic play about the danger posed to civilian populations during a modern total war, first published in the US in 1938.

Harcourt Brace. Good. 1938. Hardcover. Unbound sheets signed by author. Quarter red leather clam box with gilt spine, over tan/grey linen, lightly soiled. Outer sheets with some finger soiling.; 9.2 X 6.1 X 0.6 inches; 36 pages .

NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1938. First Edition, unbound sheets. 8vo, pp. 36. Unbound sheets that were never bound. The letter "a" has been written on the front blank cover (by Macleish?) MUllaly A19.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1938). First Edition. Softcover. Fine in a Fine clamshell box. Unbound sheets of this book-length poem about the danger posed to civilian populations during a modern total war. SIGNED by the poet and dated "December 1977" on the title page. Housed in a handsome gilt-lettered morocco-backed cloth clamshell box. 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.