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MACLEISH, Archibald. Tower of Ivory. New Haven: Yale U.P., 1917. 8o. Original boards, paper labels; printed dust jacket. Provenance: Jonathan Goodwin (his sale Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 211). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, one of 750 copies printed. Mizener 4. -- Einstein. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. 4o. Original printed wrappers, glassine dust jacket, publisher's box. Provenance: Jonathan Goodwin (his sale Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 212). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 35 of 50 copies on japan vellum signed by the author, from an edition of 150. Mizener 23. -- New Found Land. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. 8o. Original printed wrappers; glassine dust wrapper. LIMITED EDITION, one of 10 hors commerce copies from an edition of 135. SIGNED BY MACLEISH on the flyleaf, 1971. -- Conquistador. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. 8o. Original cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Frederic Prokosch (bookplate, inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO FREDERIC PROKOSCH on the front pastedown. With a typescript signed by Macleish laid in, the poem "The Snow Fall," 13 lines. (4)