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.

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.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, lacking the tissue dustwrapper. Decorated red cloth; [vi], 50 pages. SIGNED "Archibald MacLeish/Conway, December 1977" by the poet on the half-title page. Complimentary card 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.

London: Boriswood, (1937). First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Lovely copy. Foreword by the author. 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: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED "For J & Lee/with love" and SIGNED "Archie/Lenox, October 14, 1967" 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.

Greenfield, MA: University Press of America, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without a dustwrapper. Gilt-lettered red cloth, [viii], 152 pages. Contributions by William Heyen, William Meredith, Donald Hall, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Wilbur, and many others. 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.

(Northampton, MA): (The Gehenna Press), (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase and clamshell box. String-bound blue-gray wraps in slipcase with printed paper label on the front, extra label laid in. Housed in a specially made blue cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered blue morocco leather spine. One of an unstated limitation of 400 copies written for the bicentennial of Conway, Massachusetts (1767-1967). Frontispiece etching of Macleish by Leonard Baskin. 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: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, Inc., (1939). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Unbound and uncut sheets of this book-length poem emphasizing that America can no longer wait for promises to come true. 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: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and clamshell box. INSCRIBED "For Jerry Moody" and SIGNED "Archibald MacLeish/August, 1979" by the poet on the half-title page. Housed in a cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label. 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): (Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith), (1953). First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Printed wraps; 12 pages including covers. Keynote Address Delivered on 21 November 1953 at the Opening Session of the Freedom Forum, Marking the 40th Anniversary of Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. 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.

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.

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.