Search Results: Authors starting with M from Charles Agvent

New York: A Great Bear Pamphlet (Something Else Press), 1966. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Printed green wraps. The second book by this American poet, performance artist, composer, playwright, and early affiliate of the Fluxus movement.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with slight loss of paper on the top edge. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Translated from the Italian by Hill Thompson with a new preface by Irwin Edman. Copy #844 of 1500, issued unsigned.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Fine, bright copy in a Near Fine slipcase. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Translated from the Italian by Hill Thompson with a new preface by Irwin Edman. Copy #740 of 1500, issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in as well as something we've not encountered before: a broadsheet titled "How to Tell Gold from Shoddy," a translation taken from the MANUALE TYPOGRAFICA printed in 1788 by Giambattista Bodoni.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper with large chip at base of spine. Cloth, quarto, xvii, 586 pages. A unified, comprehensive treatment designed for students to learn not only techniques but also how to cope with new photographic problems as they arise. Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs.

London: Cadell & Davies, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the half title, as usual. Minor occasional foxing; some offsetting from portrait to title page and on maps which, except for one neat repair and two minor marginal closed tears are fine; slight bowing of boards. A very attractive, Near Fine example of this important text. Large quarto (8-1/4" x 11") bound in attractive modern full tan calf in antique style, with heavily gilt-decorated spine with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; [4] viii, cxxxii, 412 pages + errata leaf. FIELD 967: "No writer upon the subject of Indian customs and peculiarities has given us a more minute, careful and interesting relation"; GRAFF 2630; HILL, pp. 187-88: "This is the first and finest edition of one of the most important of Canadian books"; HOWES M-133; LANDE 1317; NEW HOWES M-133 "dd": "First crossing of the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man.... The account of the fur trade--first ever… Read More

Newcastle upon Tyne: MacKenzie and Dent, [1819]. First Edition. Hardcover. Long tear to map with no loss; text and plates generally clean. Backstrip slightly lifted with minor split to front hinge and cover just a tad loose; small gouge to leather on spine. Very Good. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2") in 19th-century black calf-backed marbled boards; xv, (1), (9)-712 pages. Illustrated with a large folding engraved map, 2 engraved plans of the City of Washington and the Country round Pittsburg, and 6 engraved views: the Capitol, Falls of Niagara, Natural Bridge, Mount Vernon, an American Stage Waggon,and the Bank of the United States. HOWES M-137. Quite scarce when the large map is present.

Chicago: Poetry, (1928). First Edition. Softcover. A previous owner has neatly covered the book in glassine which we've elected to keep on it. Fine. The January 1929 issue in green wraps, containing "Published Correspondence," a three-part poem by Archibald MacLeish. Also with reviews of new books by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Carl Sandburg. 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.

Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1960. First Edition. Broadside. Light crease to bottom corners. Fine. Large (10-1/4" x 14") broadside on heavy paper printed in black and red. A tribute to Archibald MacLeish's mother, once president of Rockford College in Illinois. Uncommon, not to be confused with the rather common 1949 biography with the same title. 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.

Hamden, CT, 27 February 1978 and 4 March 1978. Letters. 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… Read More

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped, Very Good 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.

n.p., n.d. [1970s]. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Three large (11-1/8" x 15") sheets of thick deckle-edged paper folded to make 12 pages reproducing the manuscript of a poem by MacLeish written in 1929. Not to be confused with the 1935 book publication printed by Ward Ritchie. 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.

(Conway, MA), (1973). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Large (11-1/8" x 15") single sheet of thick deckle-edged paper folded to make 4 pages containing an essay on Ezra Pound by MacLeish. 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 Haven, CT: The Editors, 1912 - 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Light wear. Near Fine. Four issues in wraps including Volume LXXVII, No. VII, Volume LXXVIII, Nos. III and VIII, and Volume LXXIX, No. 5, with three poems and two pieces of fiction by Archibald MacLeish, his earliest appearances in print. The two stories are of particular interest. MacLeish wrote a total of eight stories for the magazine. He never published any prose fiction again. 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.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Some fading to the cloth. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with light edgewear. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page. Uncommon in dustwrapper and signed. 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: Free World, Inc., [1943]. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Printed stapled wraps (3-5/8" x 7-1/8"); 16 pages not including covers. First Separate Printing of an article from the October 1943 issue of FREE WORLD. 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.

[Boston]: [National Public Radio], [1978]. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Pictorial wraps, 8-1/2" x 11"; 68 mimeographed pages printed on one side only. A proposal for a series of radio presentations of 10 documentaries and 11 plays by MacLeish. Likely produced in small numbers. 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: The John Day Company, (1933). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Printed pamphlet, 28 pages; dedicated to Carl Sandburg. No. 29 of the JOHN DAY Pamphlets. SIGNED by the poet on the front cover. 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.

Manuscript. About Fine. Fair Copy Manuscript of his well-known poem "Speech to a Crowd" SIGNED in full beneath his typed name with minor ink corrections in the text.

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.

(New York): (Alfred A. Knopf), n.d. [1932]. First Edition. Softcover. Fine in a Fine envelope. Leja Gorska. Pictorial blue-green stitched wraps in original mailing envelope; 4 pages plus covers. Illustrated by Leja Gorska. Number 3 of the Borzoi Chapbooks series with a small broadside prospectus for the series laid in. 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.