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NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uphill with Archie is a beautifully written and deeply involving look at the life and the world of the great literary icon, poet Archibald MacLeish, by his youngest son. Partly an homage, partly an attempt to come to terms with the man (and the legend), Uphill with Archie speaks to all sons and daughters who have never completely resolved their feelings about powerful parents. Young William MacLeish grew up both captivated and cowed by the fame of a father who won Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry and comparable honors for his work as a lawyer, playwright, teacher, and government official. William's mother, Ada, began her marriage as a successful concert singer in Paris but later felt compelled to give up her art for her family. When Archie was working for Henry Luce and Fortune magazine, his younger children, watched over by a governess, stayed with their grandfather in Connecticut. But it is of the time spent with his family at Uphill Farm, a beautiful old house above a Massachusetts hilltown, that MacLeish has his fondest and most telling memories: "Archie and Ada gave me great gifts: music, the sound of the language beautifully spoken, the draw of knowledge, the arts of humor," William writes. "I learned to perform for them, and in time found myself addicted to getting a nice tan from Archie's sun. And the more I bathed in his light, the harder I found it to go looking for my own."

Chelsea, VT, Chelsea Green, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustration. 188 pages. Slight cock to spine. Dust jacket price clipped. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New Haven, Connecticut Yale University Art Gallery 2015 Hardcover, illustrated photographic boards with white lettering. 140 pages with bw photos throughout. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Donald Blumberg Photographs: Selections from the Master Sets at Yale University Art Gallery, August to November 2015. With an introduction by Jock Reynolds. "Words and Images from the American Media gathers over 162 images that Donald Blumberg has photographed directly from newspapers and television screens since the 1960s.

Hardcover. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Illustrated history of the Yale's 1969 architectural competition. 117 pages, illustrated fully with black/white photographs and drawings, mostly full-page. Book is cloth bound and in near fine condition, dust jacket is in good condition: bottom of the spine and few edges show wear, small rip on the back at the top edge and small stain on the back as well.