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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Stiff Paper Binding. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (viii), 37pp. Several small bumps to extremities of volume, with a name ink-stamped to front cover, light soiling and small stains, and general light wear to wrappers. Illustration to page opposite title has been reattached with clear tape. Title on half-title largely rubbed, with ownership sticker to same page. Remnants of adhesive to inside covers and dust-jacket flaps. Minor creases to extremities of a small number of pages. Text clean and binding sound. A reading copy

Houghton Mifflin, 1952-01-01. Paperback. Very Good.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1952. Limited edition in soft covers, originally not for sale. Interesting "publisher's note" by Paul Brooks which draws out the parallels between the story of the Trojan horse and contemporary American political attitudes, i.e. the fear during the McCarthy era that led leaders to adopt the "methods of our enemies." "Americans as well as Trojans can mistake a monster for a god." Verse play, forefunner of MacLeish's prize-winner, "J.B." Very good+ (interior fine, the soft covers are purposely loose, functioning like a dust jacket, and are lightly soiled and edgeworn on top front, sunned spine; originally the soft covers were attached lightly to the interior covers with a bit of glue which is visible on those inside flaps; the back flap is beginning to separate but is secured with a Brodart archival cover so it won't get any worse).. 1st Limited Edition. Soft Cover.

MACLEISH, Archibald. THE TROJAN HORSE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. 8vo. Wrappers. Frontispiece, (viii), pages. First edition. A play originally produced for BBC radio. Fine in original wrappers.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1952. First edition. Softcover. 37 pages. A very good copy in wrappers with an innocuous small stain of unknown origin to the page opposite the title page that has offset as well in a lightly soiled dust jacket.

Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition 1952. pbk French wraps light shelfwear and faint discoloration to covers otherwise an excellent clean tight unmarked copy

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Green wrapper over paper; "Here published for the first time"; a limited edition; frontispiece of "The Trojan Horse" by Tiepolo; 37pp.. Limited. Self-Wraps. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1952.. 1952.. Good. - Octavo, printed green wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & soiled with the edges darkened & some small stains & a light crease to the rear wrap. [vi] & 37 pages. The top corners of some rear pages are lightly creased. Tipped-in black-and-white frontsipiece. Good. <p>First edition.<p>This poetic drama was intended "for reading without scenery or for radio: that is, for a presentation in which the scene is created by the imagination."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. First edition. A limited edition (limitation not stated) of this play originally produced by the BBC, and issued not for sale. Included shortly thereafter in his COLLECTED POEMS: 1917-1952 which won the Pulitzer Prize (his second) and the National Book Award for poetry in 1953. Stapled wrappers in a plain green dust jacket with flaps. The flaps show residue from glue, one short mark on the front cover, otherwise about Fine. The preface includes a brief very political statement referring indirectly (but at the time quite clearly) to Joe McCarthy: "Americans as well as Trojans can make a monster for a god

Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Limited Edition. Wraps. Very Good. From the library of poet/academic William Matchett with his signature and date to the half title, as well as noting that this book was given to him by Howard Mumford Jones, dated January 1952. Matchett was at the time a teaching assistant in MacLeish's famed poetry class. Limited edition, and the first publication of this play. Moderate soiling to the wraps, else a nice clean copy (jacket is not torn or chipped).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. A limited edition intended for radio or reading without scenery; bound in paper wraps with green decorated DW, with acetate protector; small tipped-in black & white frontispiece plate; 37pp.. Limited. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952 First printing of the first edition, limited edition. Stapled, printed wrappers, 37pp. Faint toning to page margins, light wear to upper, shallow creasing near upper front spine fold, and light toning to spine, else fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in self-wrappers.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Limited edition. For presentation purposes only. Paperback. Near fine copy in the original title-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 37 pages; Description: 8, 37 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Drama.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. First edition. " A limited edition. Not for sale" and first print appearance of this play. THE TROJAN HORSE was first presented by the BBC and was later included in MacLeish's COLLECTED POEMS: 1917-1952 (for which he won the National Book Award for poetry in 1953). Glue residue to verso of dust jacket flaps and inside of covers (apparently typical) and to top edge of frontis picture and corresponding area of title page, otherwise bright and fine stapled paperwraps and very slightly soiled dust jacket.

Houghton Mifflin. Good. 1952. Paperback. SIGNED by author. Pale green wraps lightly soiled and edge worn. Under flaps, as usual, are remains of glue. Tipped in frontis also shows glue, with transference to half and full title.; 37 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Usual offsetting from the tipped-in frontispiece. Fine in a lightly worn envelope and a Fine clamshell box. SIGNED by the poet on the title page. In the uncommon original printed envelope and housed in a specially made green cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered black 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.

[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: The Poet's Theatre, 1953. Unbound. Fine. Measuring 4.75" x 19". Single sheet printed both sides. Folded twice, else fine. A handbill for The Poet's Theatre's production of two one-act plays by Macliesh held at the Agassiz Theatre at Harvard between October 21 - 24, 1953.

[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: The Poets' Theatre, 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Broadside. Measuring approximately 11" x 14". Silk-screened in four colors on thin card stock. Modest bumping at the corners, a bit of faint staining, tiny pinholes at top and bottom edges, very good or better. With a pencil sketch of a mandolin on the unprinted verso in an unknown hand. A handsome broadside from Cambridge Massachusetts' legendary Poets' Theatre, advertising a 1953 showing of two one-act plays by MacLeish at Harvard's Agassiz theatre.