Author: MacLEISH, Archibald
Title: An Evening's Journey to Conway Massachusetts. An Outdoor Play
Description: (Northampton, MA), (The Gehenna Press), (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. 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. Fine in a Fine slipcase and 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.

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