New Found Land

Fourteen Poems

by Archibald MacLeish 

First limited edition.  Paris:  The Black Sun Press, 1930  

Softback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a VERY GOOD case.

• Stiff cream wraps with onion skin overlay are mostly clean, with text in red and black ink.  Wraps show some edgewear.  Corners are bumped.  See photos.  
• Spine has red and black text and is a little darkened with scuffed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure. 
• End papers/ pastedowns show little sign of age or wear.
• Ex libris Clifton Waller Barrett, with bookplate on front pastedown.  See photos.
• Interior exhibits some marginal toning, bumping to upper edge at binding.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have untrimmed fore and foot edges.  
• Onion skin overlay shows some wear at corners, is darkened and chipped at spine and shoulders.  See photos. 
• Custom case of gray marl cloth over stiff boards.  Case shows some staining, bumping, edgewear.  See photos.  
• PS2025.0730

Unpaginated. 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches

A Very Good first edition copy of this slim volume of poetry by Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982), American poet associated with the modernist school.  Publisher's stiff cream wraps with red and black titles are protected by onion skin overlay.  Interior is unmarked.

The Black Sun Press, edited and founded by Harry and Caresse Crosby, was distinguished by the high quality of its editions and typographic excellence.  It became one of the most important small presses in Paris in the 1920s.  After serving in the U.S. Armed Forces in the First World War, Archibald MacLeish lived in Paris during the 1920s, as did many of the writers whose work was printed by the Black Sun Press.

The inside front cover bears a bookplate pertaining to Clifton Waller Barrett (1901-1991).  Barrett, a shipping executive, was an avid and serious book collector from an early age.  He read widely and voraciously, and wrote about book collecting.  The focus of his collecting was American literature, with an emphasis on the years 1775-1850.  In 1960 he transferred the bulk of his collection to the library of the University of Virginia. 

First, limited edition.  Published in March 1930, handset in Naudin type.  This copy is one of ten marked H. C. (hors-commerce).

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