Search Results: conquistador by macleish archibald

This book is complete with the foldout map in the back. There is a former owner's name inside.

boston: Houghton, 1933. Hardcover. Good. Later. Good hardcover. Pages brown and inside covers. Corners very lightly rubbed and bent. Edges of spine rubbed and bumped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 6th printing, stated on copyright page and on the DUSTJACKET, the book has only minor rubbing, DJ is darkening, with light chipping, and a small piece on the spine(top part of the M in name, price intact.. Cloth. Very Good/Good-. This is a gap filler expect no better.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.114

Editorial Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1960, Quito.. 21x16. 145 pgs. Faltas en la portada. 626983

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize winner. Second impression. Very good in a good (age darkened and edge worn) dust jacket. The scarce wrap-around band with title, Stephen Vincent Benet and Ernest Hemingway blurbs is also present - age darkened along the spine with one very small chip. .

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. hardcover, dust jacket. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 114 pages with foldout at rear. First edition. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Jacket age darkened at edges and along spine, chipped along edges. Else near fine. Winner of the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. With fold-out map.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth. First edition. Foldout map at rear. Small stain to front board. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine, mildly edgeworn with short closed tear, chip to point. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boriswood, London. 1936. First edition thus. DW. Limited to 1,000 copies. Boards very slightly aged. Wrapper browned and chipped to edges. Some very slight wear to top edges o/w a very clean copy of this scarce book. VG/VG.

London: Gollancz, 1933. One of 1000 copies, first UK edition. Large 8vo, pp. 114. Black cloth. Cover faded, and worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w VG. A long poem based on chronicles of the conquest of Mexico written by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and on Macleish's travels iin Mexico.

London: Victor Gollancz, , 1933. Rilegato tela (cloth). Molto buono (Very Good). Poemetto narrativo. Prima edizione inglese di 1000 esemplari numerati (segue l'edizione americana del 1932). 8vo. pp. 116. Molto buono (Very Good). Prima edizione inglese di 1000 es. numerati. Dizionario universale della letteratura contemporanea [DULC, 1959] Dizionario universale della letteratura contemporanea. Milano, Mondadori, 1959.

V. Gollancz, 1933-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. No DJ. Mild sunning, slight rubbing to spine. Pages slightly age toned, mild duststaining at top edge,else clean. Binding sound.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. First British Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to covers. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper with very light soiling at the rear. One of 1000 copies. This long poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is based on the writings of Bernal Diaz del Castillo as well as on Macleish's own travels iin Mexico. 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.

Parma: Guanda, Fenice, 1970. Rilegato, sovracoperta in acetato (cloth, acetate dust jacket). Molto buono (Very Good). Dedica e firma autografe dell'Autore, datata Conway, Massachusetts 1972 (Inscription signed by the Author, dated Conway, Massachusetts 1972). A cura di Roberto Sanesi. 8vo. pp. 224. Dedica e firma autografe dell'Autore, datata Conway, Massachusetts 1972 (Inscription signed by the Author, dated Conway, Massachusetts 1972). Molto buono (Very Good). Prima edizione italiana (First Italian Edition). Dizionario della letteratura mondiale del 900 [Galati, 1980] Licinio Galati Francesco (a cura di), Dizionario della letteratura mondiale del 900. Roma, Edizioni Paoline, 1980.

México City, 1963. Reprint. Staplebound. Very Good+. Reprint. Staplebound. This is a reading copy reproduced for a reading and discussion by Archibald MacLeish at the Mexican North American Cultural Institute in Mexico City, April 27, 1962. It is typescript reprint from MacLeish's original publication of the long poem "Conquistador" in 1932. MacLeish was deeply invested in Mexican history and travelled for pleasure and diplomacy to Mexico frequently. He was an American poet and writer who was associated with the Modernist school of poetry, studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University, and was the Librarian of Congress under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1933, "Conquistador" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the first of three awarded to MacLeish. He was influenced by his travels in Mexico and originally in 1928, MacLeish returned to America from Europe, where he began research for his epic poem Conquistador by travelling the steps and mule-ride of Cortez's army through… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press Cambridge, 1932 Book. Good - Very Good. Hard Cover - Cloth. Author's Signature Included. First Edition / First Printing. Octavo. ii + 114 pp + fold-out map. Author's signature laid in on loose bookmark sized paper, Previous owner's bookplate inside fr pastedown, Binding tight, pages unmarked but slightly age-toned, endpapers with some age-toning, covers almost Very Good with little wear to cloth but some age to coloring & gilt spine lettering - text block top edge stained gray as published. Unclipped DJ chipped and worn almost an inch around spine top, and front forecorner, DJ spine heavily sun-tanned, and browned all over. 6.4" x 9.5" red cloth boards in DJ.

Houghton Mifflin Co. Very Good. 1932. Hardcover. SIGNED and inscribed by author in Conway in 1975. First edition. Browned dj (esp. spine) chipped top edge with a chunk gone from top spine. Folding map present. Interior pages toned, esp. end papers.; 9.2 X 6.1 X 0.6 inches; 114 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 114pp. Folding map of the "Route of the Conquistadors". Near fine in a modestly age-toned very good or better dust jacket. Winner of the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Front flap of the dust jacket prints a five-line blurb by Ernest Hemingway, in praise of this title. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies.