[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Review Copy of Archibald Macleish's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play: J. B.

[Charles Agvent]

MACLEISH, Archibald. J. B. A Play in Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 
Company, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with the 
review slip laid in. INSCRIBED "For Lee & J/with my love" and SIGNED in 
March 1958 by the poet on the half-title page. Also included are two 
playbills, including one for the premiere performance on 11 December 
1958, starring Pat Hingle, Christopher Plummer, and Raymond Massey. All 
in a protective cloth clamshell box with a gilt-lettered morocco label 
on the backstrip. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as a 
Tony Award. Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with mild 
sunning to the spine.

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. (#020280)        $850

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