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$25.00Albuquerque: La Alameda Press (2004). First edition. 154 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Meltzer’s epic poem on the mid-20th century scene, enhanced by b&w photographs. -
$35.00[Berkeley]: Oyez Press, 1973. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh for friends of the poet and the press. SIGNED by Meltzer on the front cover with a drawing. -
$40.00New Haven: Penny Poems, 1959. First edition. 10 x 7 inch illustrated broadside. Very near fine. Meltzer’s fourth appearance in the Penny Poems Series, and published the same year as his first solo book RAGAS. -
$85.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 139 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meltzer with an original drawing. -
$350.00North Hollywood: Essex House (1968). First editions. 160 + 160 + 160 pp. Three volumes, all very near fine in illustrated wrappers with a “not for resale” stamp on the bottom edge of first volume. THE AGENCY, THE AGENT, and HOW MANY BLOCKS IN THE PILE? Review slip in volume 3. Norman Spinrad contributes a postscript to the second and third volumes. Young 2647-2649. For the trilogy: -
$45.00Milwaukee: Membrane Press (1981). First edition. 32mo. [48 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Dated (18:I:82) and INSCRIBED by Meltzer to his Oyez Press publishers Robert and Dorothy Hawley, “For the Hawleys / Love / David” with a nice drawing. -
$100.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1984. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 174 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meltzer with an original drawing tipped-in after the title page. -
$25.00[Berkeley]: Oyez (1977). First edition. 149 pp w/text-sources. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. -
$35.00San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. 750 copies printed letterpress by Hoyem and Haselwood. Auerhahn Pamphlet No. 2. Auerhahn 19. -
$15.00(np): Wingbow (1976). First printing of this revised edition. 256 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Interviews with Everson, Ferlinghetti, McClure, Rexroth, and Welch. Originally published under the title THE SAN FRANCISCO POETS. -
$20.00Hereford: Five Seasons Press, 2016. First edition. 127 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Merchant on the title page. A further development of the themes and modes tackled in SOME BUSINESS OF AFFINITY. -
$25.00Hereford: Five Seasons Press, 2006. First edition. 272 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Merchant on the title page. Translations, reworkings, interpretations, and responses with over forty illustrations. -
$35.00NY: Grossman (1968). First US edition. [48 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine and extrems. Merchant introduces and translates George Seferis, Andreas Embiricos, Oddyseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos, Takis Sinopoulos, and Eleni Vakalo. -
$25.00Berkeley: Tree, 1975. First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Poems. -
$3,500.00NY: Privately Printed, 1942. First edition. 72 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Lacks original unprinted glassine dust jacket. Dated (1980) and INSCRIBED by Merrill to his longtime editor at Atheneum Harry Ford and his wife Kathleen, “For Harry + Kathleen / - who will share the fate of / Paolo + Francesca if they / read further than this page / James.” Merrill’s first book, published by his father when James was sixteen. -
$75.00NY: Atheneum, 1976. First edition. 136 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a short corner crease to front flap. Merrill's Pulitzer Prize winning collection, which combines his long (100 pages) poem "The Book of Ephraim" with nine shorter poems. Review slip laid in. -
$150.00NY: Nadja (1987). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. One of 74 (of 100) numbered copies on T.H. Saunders paper SIGNED by Merrill. Travel notes, printed in two colors. -
$250.00NY: Atheneum, 1966. First edition. 56 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with some toning to spine and top edge of rear panel. Winner of the National Book Award for poetry. -
$300.00[Ann Arbor: Laurence Scott] (1984). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Six poems with a frontspiece illustration by Scott. One of 149 numbered copies SIGNED by Merrill on the colophon page, and by Scott at his artwork. -
$500.00Pawlet: Banyan Press, 1954. First edition. 10 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and printed cover label. One of 210 numbered copies of which 60 were for sale and 150 for friends of the poet and printer. This is copy 203. Poems. -
$250.00NY: Nadja (1984). First edition, lettered & signed issue. Tall narrow 8vo. [16 pp]. Fine in full red cloth with inset printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies (the entire hardcover edition) on HMP and Rives papers SIGNED by Merrill. -
$350.00NY: Atheneum, 1982. First edition. 560 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Erratum slip present at page 232. Collects THE BOOK OF EPHRAIM, MIRABELL’S BOOKS OF NUMBER, SCRIPTS FOR THE PAGEANT, and a new coda, THE HIGHER KEYS. INSCRIBED by Merrill to friends, ”with best wishes from / JM + Co.” -
$20.00London: Chatto & Windus/ Hogarth Press, 1970. First UK edition. 52 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. The first hardcover edition, as the US edition of a year earlier was a paperback original. -
$75.00Amherst: Friends of the Amherst College Press, 1983. First edition. Single sheet folded twice (5 x 6 3/4 inches, closed). Small mark on rear cover, else fine with original printed mailing envelope. One of 450 copies. SIGNED by Merrill on the front cover. Hagstrom & Morgan A47. -
$75.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1949). First edition. 377 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Companion to THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, detailing the daily life of a monk. -
$25.00Oshkosh: Road Runner Press [1969]. First edition. 15 pp. Three tiny spots on font cover, else fine in stapled wrappers. An essay, published originally in Kulchur #11 (Summer, 1963), during the “Cuba Crisis.” -
$25.00San Francisco: Kayak (1969). First edition. 31 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with drawings by Lynn Schroeder. Designed and printed by George Hitchcock in an edition of 1200 copies. -
$150.00Mount Horeb: Perishable Press, 1971. First edition. Narrow 8vo. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine unprinted dust jacket. One of 120 (of which 75 were for public sale) copies on Shadwelll papers. Hamady 49. -
$75.00[San Francisco]: Square Zero Editions, 1978. First edition. 17 x 10 1/2 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Designed by Shelley Hoyt-Koch. Printed at Black Stone Press. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Merwin. -
$45.00Washington DC: Counterpoint (1996). First edition. 89 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Merwin at the conclusion of the title poem. -
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$75.00NY: Atheneum, 1979. First edition. xviii + 125 pp. Fine in wrappers with one tiny corner-crease. Merwin’s English translations with his substantial foreword. Dated (Peacock Cafe / New York / May 1981) and INSCRIBED by Merwin on the title page.