Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
MacLEISH, ARCHIBALD. Group of 9 volumes plus 4 Autograph Letters Signed. 8vo, original bindings. Vp, vd

Additional Details

Hamlet of A. MacLeish. With 2 TLsS to Yale classmate Ranald. H. Macdonald. Boston, 1928 New Found Land. 70/100 Signed copies. Slipcase. Paris, 1930 Public Speech. 171/275 Signed copies. Lacks slipcase. NY, (1936) America Was Promises. Signed. NY, (1939) The Irresponsibles. Inscribed "to dean of American Librarians." NY, (1940) Collected Poems 1917-1952. With 3 TLsS to Macdonald. Boston, 1959-65 another copy Inscribed to critic John Simon, who was one of MacLeish's star students in a creative writing class at Harvard Poetry and Journalism. With TLS to MacLeish fby Columbia Univ. President Grayson Kirk concerning a talk he gave at the Univ. of Minnesota: "As a poet you cannot see world affairs dispassionately . . ." Minneapolis, 1954 Two AlsS and a TLS to veteran New York editor Charles A. "Cap" Pearce about MacLeish's post at The New Yorker and Harold Ross's and Edmund Wilson's roles there. (New York, circa 1930s).