Songs for Eve
first edition Hardcover
1954 · Boston
by MacLeish, Archibald
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. "Songs for Eve" contains a long lyric sequence comprising some of the sweetest and most subtle lyrics in the language. Deceptively simple, they read like a cross between songs from Elizabethan plays and some of the mystical old folk songs." (from DJ) Presentation copy from MacLeish to noted American poet, Lewis Turco. Signed by by both author and Turco. MacLeish was also a long-reigning head of the Library of Congress. Minor shelf/edge wear, light toning to board edges, spot of color transfer at front hinge, presentation plate at front pastedown, owner emboss at title page, else tight, bright and unmarred. Cream marbled paper boards, red ink label and decorative elements, gilt lettering, red endpages. 8vo. 58pp. (Inventory #: 6045)