Search Results: collected poems 1917 1952 by macleish archibald

Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Cloth. Good. Larger, thicker book, blue and black cloth with very bright silver initials on front, very bright silver lettering on spine, 407 lightly browned pages. Lightly browned inside covers and adjacent end papers, very light surface wear to spine corners, very tiny lighter spots at back left. Good.

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1952. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. 8vo, pp. viii, 407. A VG tight copy.

Houghton Mifflin Co. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Gifter's inscription on inside. Slightly dampstained. Front hinge torn. (Literature, Poetry, Poems)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Riverside Press. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later printing of the 1952 edition with a Near Fine condition book and a Very Good condition jacket with overall wear.

Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fair/Poor. 1952. Hardcover Cloth. 8vo., 407 pp., dj frayed, yellowed, inside hinges weak, pages yellowed .

New York: Houghton Mifflin. Good with no dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/some chipping & sunning, unclipped price, in mylar; 407 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 vo; 1.5 Pouinds.

New York: Houghton Mifflin. Good with no dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good plus condition: jacket lightly foxed, frayed/No Dustjacket. (1952). 8vo., viii, 407 pp. .

USA: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Previous owners small bookplate to front paste down. Fading and rubbing to D/J with tears to corners and chipping to head and tail of spine. (POETRY)

Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Tight binding, clean boards, and no markings in text; Dust jacket housed in protective mylar; Stored and shipped in protective polybag; Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Octavo. viii, 407 pp. First edition, early printing. Signed and inscribed by MacLeish on the front free endpaper. In publisher's cloth binding with titled in silver on the spine with author's initials boldly blocked in silver on the front cover. Binding is a bit sunned at the board edges; contents are clean; dust jacket is worn with early tape repairs in several place on the back; spine sunned; price intact on the front flap; despite the wear, it presents fairly well in a mylar cover. A nice collection of early poetry by the decorated poet, winner of multiple Pulitzer's in poetry and drama as well as the National Book Award.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. 8vo. Blue and black cloth with silver lettering. viii, 407pp. Very good. Quite mild binding wear, else super tight and internally near fine; lacks dust jacket. Attractive early printing of this Pulitzer Prize winner. Front pastedown bears small elegant bookplate of New York City's elite Century Club, and on the facing front flyleaf the poet boldly inscribes and signs it in black ink for this august institution: "For / The Century Club / Where a man / likes to be / Archibald MacLeish." As if being a prolific poet, playwright and writer weren't enough -- winning Pulitzer Prizes in 1933, 1952 and 1958 along the way, as well as a National Book Award and numerous others -- this man of letters (1892-1982) was appointed Librarian of Congress in 1939, and despite his lacking a library science degree he reorganized and revolutionized that unwieldy behemoth before departing in 1944; oh yes, he also squeezed in a career as an attorney and as writing professor at Harvard.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 407pp. Blue and black cloth. Front flyleaf has light creasing at lower corner, else a near fine copy in very good dust jacket and publisher's wrap-around band, announcing that this title has was the National Book Award for 1953 for Poetry. The jacket is sunned at the extremities as usual with small nicks at tips of spine, and at extremities of front panel, few short tears on front and rear panel, else quite bright. This title won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the National Book Award. An elusive title in dust jacket, especially with the wrap-around band.