Description Fall-of-the-City-FE.jpg	English: Front cover of the first edition of The Fall of the City (1937) by Archibald MacLeish
Date	26 April 1937
Source	Self scan of the front board of the first edition published by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.; the dust jacket is a translucent sheet
Author	Farrar & Rinehart, publishers; Archibald MacLeish
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Following the Columbia Workshop premiere of the radio play April 11, 1937, the text was published by Farrar & Rinehart (April 26, 1937).