[Rarebooks] FS: GREAT AMERICAN FOURTH OF JULY PARADE: 2 SIGNED copies including a Proof

[Charles Agvent]

MacLEISH, Archibald. GREAT AMERICAN FOURTH OF JULY PARADE. A Verse Play 
for Radio. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975. First 
Edition. Two copies, the play as published in dustwrapper and an 
Advanced Uncorrected Proof, both SIGNED by the author. The Proof is 
SIGNED at the top of the page listing other works by MacLeish and the 
Trade Edition is INSCRIBED on the half-title page to Edward "Ted" Smith, 
a classmate of MacLeish's at Yale (class of 1915): "For Ted/Archie/old 
affection." Also included is a letter from Paul Zimmer as Assistant 
Director of the University of Pittsburgh Press to William Phillips of 
PARTISAN REVIEW forwarding the proof. All enclosed in a black cloth 
clamshell box with a gilt-lettered black morocco label on the backstrip. 
All Near Fine to Fine, the letter with wrinkling.

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. (#020283)        $150

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