Macleish Robert (19 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

1st edition. Excellent issue, scarce. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4, 124 pp, b/w photos. Good with some pencil underlines, worn spine. Paperback in pale blue illus wraps.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall (small). A very good copy with slight creases, rubbing and browning to wrappers (chiefly at spine edges); slight internal browning (chiefly to edges). 10, [2] pages. Reissue in pamphlet format of the interview with the noted American poet (then just recently appointed to the post of Librarian of Congress); originally published in the New York Times, May 10, 1942. One of 375 copies (the entire edition), designed and printed for The Typophiles at the Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vermont, by William Edwin Rudge. Fairly well-preserved ephemeral piece. Title Vignette (dark red/white).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Booklet, mauve wraps, lettered in black. 12 pp. Just a hint of handling wear, essentially as issued. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Large softcover has minor shelf wear. Pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding. Actual book for sale pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1975. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has a tiny closed tear on rear panel and some wear to corners (as pictured), and is otherwise fine. F1400A.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Interesting later issue of this essential postwar literary magazine. Includes interviews with Philip Larkin and James Merrill, a plaque by Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin, other great content. Unmarked copy, minor wear. Not Signed.

Softcover. Condition: As New. The Newport Restoration Foundation; Newport, 2010. Softcover. A Near Fine, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, few small scuff marks bottom text block edge, small abrasion bottom rear cover, trace handling marks, a hint of sunning to page margins, a nice, clean and unmarked copy in Oversize Wraps. 4to[quarto or approx. 9.5 x 12 inches], 127pp., glossary, sources, indexed, color and b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Quarto. Perfectbound in wrappers. Very good with rubbing and moderate edgewear including nicks, tears and creases. This issue features contributions from Archibald MacLeish, Robert Hillyer, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Bernard DeVoto and many others.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 276pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Text block edges and covers with a few small spots, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, very good in a very good dust jacket with a 2 ½" tear at crown and chipping and small tears along the edges. A Living Age Book. Contains the first book appearance of "Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas" by Wallace Stevens (*Edelstein* B26); additional contributions by Conrad Akien, W.H. Auden, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, R.P. Blackmur, Weldon Kees, Archibald MacLeish, Louis MacNiece, Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, Stephen Spender, Allen Tate, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams and more.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Robert Capa, Larry Burrows, Francis Miller, George Leavens, John Bryson, Loomis Dean (illustrator). Entire issue, July 14, 1961, in original wraps with portrait of the subject, light general wear, occasional fine creasing noted at cover, still overall clean and bright, with mailing label. The elusive, highly collectible Hemingway memorial issue, with a preface by LIFE, a photographic essay, including explanatory text, with 10 pages of pictures spanning Hemingway's adult life, by Hemingway's friend Robert Capa, who would work with Hemingway multiple times for Life Magazine, and Larry Burrows, Francis Miller, George Leavens, John Bryson, and Loomis Dean, and the 2-page MacLeish essay, His Mirror Was Danger. From the editor's preface, "For us at Life, the death of Ernest Hemingway is a special loss, for he was a cherished colleague of ours. From the time in 1937 when he wrote captions for one of our picture stories on the Spanish War to last summer, when we published parts of his latest work (The Dangerous Summer), he was both a contributor to Life and a good friend." See Hanneman H1274. Surprisingly scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 84 pages. Morton Dauwen Zabel "Archibald MacLeish: The Poet On Capitol Hill (Part I) / Dwight Macdonald "Reading fro Left to Right" / Alan Mather "Functionalism and Naive Materialism in American Architecture" / Robert Fitzgerald "Cross Country: Notes on a Journey" / George L K Morris "Metropolitan Storage Warehouse" / William Petersen "What Has Become Of European Writers And Artists/ A Check List".

[12] pp.; 20.7 x 13.9 cm.; staple bound; duotone; edition size unknown; unsigned and numbered; offset-printed Catalogue published in conjunction with the twenty-second season of readings and lectures presented by The Poetry Center, New York City, October 1960 - May 1961. Readings by Brendan Behan, Marianne Moore, William Stafford, Reed Whittemore, Angus Wilson, Archibald MacLeish, W.H. Auden, Richard Hugo, Joseph Langland, Claire McAllister, Anthony Hecht, W.S. Merwin, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Margaret Avison, Edward Dorn, Theodore Enslin, e.e. cummings, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hazel, David Ignatow, Diane Wakoski, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Stanley Kunitz and others. Includes author biographies. Very Good. Mailed catalogue with mailing marks and wear, rusted staples and yellowed covers, otherwise Fine.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Faux velum paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 58pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket age toned and faintly stained and mildly edgeworn, with several small edge chips -- but complete and fairly attractive nonetheless. Tight and nice first edition of this slim verse gathering, "a long lyric sequence comprising some of the sweetest and most subtle lyrics in the language." This unusual bears a handsome presentation inscription on the half-title page: "For Adlai with the hope that he will / get that ship off the mud / Barbara." Presenter "Barbara" is Barbara Ward (1914-81), the Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, influential British economist and author who befriended many American policy makers such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson -- and Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. Ward's amusing inscription may refer to the poem "Ship of Fools" on page 54, which opens: "shoaled on this shingle, / Beached by the ebbed age, grounded." MacLeish was also a good friend of Stevenson's.

Revue internationale de littérature contemporaine. Rome, directeur: Giorgio Bassani. Un volume 14,3x23,2cm broché sous jaquette, de 617 pages. Bon état. Les textes sont publiés dans leur langue d'origine. Fondée en 1948 par Marguerite Caetani, princesse de Bassiano (également mécène de la revue Commerce de 1924 à 1932), dont le palais se trouvait à Rome via delle Botteghe oscure. Excellente revue internationale dont tous les textes sont inédits. Les meilleurs écrivains notamment les poètes du monde entier y auront publié au cours des 25 livraisons semestrielles éditées jusqu?en 1960. Livres.

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vi, 71 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Covers are red paper with white lettering and decorations, moderately age toned with staple binding. Rubbing wear along edges of covers, along spine, at ends of spine, and at corners. Front cover shows several faint stains. Text block shows some scuffing and foxing on the edges, and is lightly age toned throughout. Foxing sparsely present throughout. Dated "11/21/49" and inscribed in black ink on half title page: "Bill Bird - an "old hand" at all this. / Best / Bill". Inscription appears to be in the hand of William Carlos Williams, signing here as "Bill". Instances of Williams singing as "Bill" are extremely scarce, and was typically reserved for the signing of letters, very rarely used in book inscriptions. Williams had published one of his novels - The Great American Novel - through Bird's Three Mountains Press in 1923. This inscription's date nearly 30 years later, combined with Williams signing under the nickname "Bill", evidences a long and familiar relationship between the two men. Housed in a card-backed archival sleeve. SH Consignment. Shelved in Room A. . Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette. . 1403705. Special Collections.

First Edition. THE FREE COMPANY PRESENTS A COLLECTION OF PLAYS ABOUT THE MEANING OF AMERICA, Dodd Mead, 1941, first edition, fine in vg dust-wrapper with some chipping to the head of the dust-wrapper spine. A collection of original radio plays that were broadcast and now put into book form by Maxwell Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benet, James Boyd, Marc Connelly, Paul Green, Archibald Macleish, William Saroyan, Robert E. Sherwood & Orson Welles. Curiously uncommon.

Letters. Condition: Near Fine. Two handwritten two-page letters on both sides of an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet SIGNED "Robert" to MacLeish along with a page of notes handwritten in pencil by MacLeish and a small card in pencil and ink written by MacLeish. The notes refer to consciousness with MacLeish mentioning HAMLET and Beethoven: "Works of art not only suggest consciousness in others, they demonstrate it." Fitzgerald's letters are about his famous translation of the THE ODYSSEY and MacLeish's reaction to it as well as identification of Homer with his hero Odysseus, and in context is surely a response to a query by MacLeish regarding one line in the poem. In part: "The thing is that in the poem Homer identifies himself with Odysseus who famously knew the world. He endows his hero with his own powers. Alkinoös thus observes that these powers belong to a man who knows the world. The dramatic CONTEXT makes my rendering a true rendering. I hope this leaves it less obscure. I believe it's true, too." Fitzgerald goes into more detail, but this is most pertinent to what MacLeish has written on the small card: "Robert Fitzgerald and 'a poet -- a man who knows the world.'" In an article by poet Donald Hall titled "Visiting the MacLeishes" in THE NEW YORK TIMES on 9 July 1978, a few months after Fitzgerald's letters, MacLeish tells Hall how he read aloud Robert Fitzgerald's translation of THE ODYSSEY to his wife Ada, and how he found a line that he had never seen before, a line translated differently by other translators. "In the 11th book, Odysseus tells his story to Alkinoös, who answers him saying that Odysseus has told his story, 'As a poet would, a man who knows the world.' MacLeish pauses to let the line sink in. He shakes his head. 'These are the words that needed for years. Who does know the world? Not the businessman. Not the scientist. Yes Shakespeare, Homer, Dante. This is what makes greatness in a poet: to know the world.'".