PUBLIC SPEECH (First UK edition in pre-war dustwrapper)

Archibald MacLeish

Verlag: Boriswood Limited, 59 Frith Street, Soho Square, London W.1., 1936

Beschreibung

First impression of the true first UK edition. ***Very good in orange cloth-covered boards with dark-blue titles to the spine, and an embossed Boriswood monogram at the bottom of the back board. The boards are clean and unmarked, with no bumps or creases, and no tears to the cloth. No reading lean to the binding. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Endpapers foxed with some offsetting from the dustwrapper flaps. Interior pages clean and unmarked. No creases or tears. ***In a very good original pre-war dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 3s. 6d. net. The dustwrapper is complete, without loss - just some slight rubbing at the edges. No creases or tears. There is some tape-offsetting to the back panel. Spine slightly darkened. ***225mm x 146mm - unpaginated but 40 printed pages. ***'Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the United States, he contributed to Henry Luce's magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938. For five years, MacLeish was the ninth Librarian of Congress, a post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1949 to 1962, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.' (Wiki) ***'The publication of "CONQUISTADOR", "POEMS", and "PANIC" has established Archibald MacLeish as one of the most considerable poets writing today either in England of America. With this present volume a new point of departure is at once evident, which is perhaps the most vital and important step in the author's poetic development. With almost perfect mastery the inspiration swings from public issues that now shake the world to the intensely personal relationship of individual man and woman. That the poet is amply possessed of the capacity to write with a strict eye to contemporary social subjects is more than substantiated by the appearance of perhaps his finest single poem "The German Girls! The German Girls!" The twenty poems that comprise "Public Speech" should, at the price of 3s. 6d., serve to introduce the work of an important poet to a much larger audience than has been possible hitherto.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'The brotherhood is not by the blood certainly. But neither are men brothers by speech - by saying so Men are brothers by life lived and are hurt by it.' - Archibald Macleish (Quote taken from the front panel of the dustwrapper) ***An uncommon book, rarely found in the original dustwrapper. The UK first edition, published by Boriswood is much scarcer than the US first edition, published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: PUBLIC SPEECH (First UK edition in pre-war dustwrapper)
• Verlag: Boriswood Limited, 59 Frith Street, Soho Square, London W.1.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1936
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First UK Edition
• Druck: First Impression
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
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