Author: MacLEISH, Robert
Title: Songs for Eve
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Hardcover. Small 4to. Faux velum paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 58pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket age toned and faintly stained and mildly edgeworn, with several small edge chips -- but complete and fairly attractive nonetheless. Tight and nice first edition of this slim verse gathering, "a long lyric sequence comprising some of the sweetest and most subtle lyrics in the language.." This unusual bears a handsome presentation inscription on the half-title page: "For Adlai with the hope that he will / get that ship off the mud / Barbara." Presenter "Barbara" is Barbara Ward (1914-81), the Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, influential British economist and author who befriended many American policy makers such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson -- and Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. Ward's amusing inscription may refer to the poem "Ship of Fools" on page 54, which opens: "shoaled on this shingle, / Beached by the ebbed age, grounded.." MacLeish was also a good friend of Stevenson's. .
Keywords: Poetry
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Title: Songs for Eve
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Hardcover. Small 4to. Faux velum paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 58pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket age toned and faintly stained and mildly edgeworn, with several small edge chips -- but complete and fairly attractive nonetheless. Tight and nice first edition of this slim verse gathering, "a long lyric sequence comprising some of the sweetest and most subtle lyrics in the language.." This unusual bears a handsome presentation inscription on the half-title page: "For Adlai with the hope that he will / get that ship off the mud / Barbara." Presenter "Barbara" is Barbara Ward (1914-81), the Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, influential British economist and author who befriended many American policy makers such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson -- and Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. Ward's amusing inscription may refer to the poem "Ship of Fools" on page 54, which opens: "shoaled on this shingle, / Beached by the ebbed age, grounded.." MacLeish was also a good friend of Stevenson's. .
Keywords: Poetry
Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 47450
- Book number: 47450
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