Actfive Poems: First Edition (16 results)
Published by Random House, New York 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.sonalsorises
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Cloth and Paper. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition, fine, minor wear to corners, no bookplates or writing.
Published by Random House, New York 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Winding Road Books, Templeton, CA, U.S.A.Winding Road Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 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.
Language: English
Published by Random House 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Includes typed letter signed by Archibald MacLeish on Library of Congress stationary. First Printing. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss, taped. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Edge chipped. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autogr…aphed by author.*. Signed.
Published by Random House (1948), New York 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 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.
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Published by Bodley Head, United Kingdom 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United KingdomPendleburys - the bookshop in the hills
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hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, slim octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a patterned dust jacket which mirrors the boards, The text is clean and unmarked, the jacket age-toned and with strengthening to the verso. 64pp.
Published by Random House, New York 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some chipping and tanning to the spine and rear panel.
Published by Random House [1948], New York 1948
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. 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.
Published by Random House, NY 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.UHR Books
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Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. 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 Ba…hamas to the recipient in Portland, Maine. Book.
More imagesPublished by Random House, New York 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, , United KingdomThe Bookshop at Beech Cottage
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Hardcover. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 63pp. 1st printing. Collection of twenty-three poems, including the title poem. Blue cloth covered spine with blue and green decorated paper covered boards. Faded gilt lettering on spine. Rubbing to top and tail of spine. Wear to corners with board show through. Shelf wear to… lower board edges. No inscriptions. Blue and black lettering on title page. Clean inside pages, tightly bound.
More imagesPublished by Houghton Mifflin, Boston & Random House, NY 1949 1978
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Gaabooks, Chester, VT, U.S.A.Gaabooks
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First editions. Actfive is inscribed by the author in 1949. The jacket looks ok, but the spine is almost detached from the panels, and with some minor edgewear. Riders is inscribed by the author to Marie Bullock, the President of the Academy of American Poets. S…igned by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by London: The Bodley Head 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United KingdomRightWayUp Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. MacLeish, Archibald. Actfive and other poems. First UK edition. London: The Bodley Head, 1950. Hardback, Good, in unclipped dustjacket, with shelfwear to edges, rubbing in places, and some foxing to the white background. Patterned boards, replicating the dustj…acket design. Binding strong. A few foxing spots to endpapers. 64pp. A couple of light pencil lines, otherwise contents clean and bright. Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Language: English
Published by London, Boriswood; New York, Farrar & Rinehart / Harcourt / Duell / Random House; Boston, Houghton; Anti-Defamation,
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Antiquariat an der Uni Muenchen, München, GermanyAntiquariat an der Uni Muenchen
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8° , Leinen, Broschiert. Aus der Bibliothek v. der berühmten Übersetzerin Eve Hesse u. teilweise mit Unterstreichungen u. Anmerkungen von Ihr. 7 Bücher in Leinen u. 5 davon mit Schutzumschlag. Gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550.
More imagesPublished by New York, NY: Random House, 1948 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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dj. First Edition. [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 gree…n 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.
Published by Random House (1948), New York 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First Edition. 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. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.
Published by Random House, New York 1948
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, CanadaTBCL The Book Collector's Library
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 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 & academic. He graduated from Princeton University in 1923, & a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1928. He then taught there, from 1927 to 1949. He was appointed lecturer in English literature at Cambridge University, England, in 1939. In 1942, Spencer gave the Lowell lectures on Shakespeare, published as Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, his most important work. Spencer also published essays, short stories, and poetry. Signed by Author.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerMacLEISH, ARCHIBALD. Actfive and other Poems. New York, [1948]. 63 p. Cloth-backed boards. Very good. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by MacLeish: "Dear Robert: I'd like you and your wife to have this from me. Archie MacLeish.".
