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$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.
$350.00Pawlet: Banyan Press, 1954. First edition. 10 pp. Light chipping and toning to extrems, else near 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 192. Poems.
$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.”$35.00NY: Atheneum, 1969. First edition. 77 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Twenty-six poems.$150.00London: Chatto & Windus/ Hogarth Press, 1970. First UK edition. 52 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. The first hardcover edition, as the US edition of a year earlier was a paperback original. INSCRIBED by Merrill on the title page, “Mary Johnsen from James Merrill.”
$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.$40.00London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1970. First edition. 52 pp. Near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket which has very light soiling and rubbing. This is the first hardbound edition, and differs from the US paperback original by the elimination of “The Summer People” from the text.$250.00NY: Knopf, 1988. First edition. 95 pp. Near fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dated (1988) SIGNED by Merrill on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED by Merrill, on behalf of his close friend Irma Brandeis, “For Elizabeth from Irma / at Christmas (early) and / with fondest wishes from the / author.”$150.00Cambridge: Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974. First edition. 76 pp. Fine in full black cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. The hardcover issue was limited to 50 signed copies. This copy is designated “Review Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by publisher James F. O’Neil.$50.00Cambridge: Temple Bar Bookshop, 1974. First trade edition. 76 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers. One of 800 copies (there were 50 in cloth).
$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.$75.00Child Okeford: Words Press (1988). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Collects “Little Fallacy,” “ Icecap,” and “Cornwall.” One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Merrill. Mir Poets Eleven.$25.00London: Chatto and Windus/ Hogarth Press (1972). First edition. 47 pp. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped jacket jacket.$200.00NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First edition, hors commerce. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral patterned paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of a number of hors commerce copies (xi) SIGNED by Merrill. Number 17 in the Phoenix Book Shop Oblong Octavo Series.$125.00NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral patterned paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. The colophon calls for 26 lettered and 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Merrill. This copy is neither lettered nor numbered. Number 17 in the Phoenix Book Shop Oblong Octavo Series.$250.00[NY]: Phoenix [Book Shop], 1972. Uncorrected proof. 4to sheets, stapled. Uncorrected galleys of the first edition, printed on paper different from that of the published book, and preceding the 12mo page proofs; one of only 3 copies produced. The first line of type reads: "PHOENIX: Merrill, Yannina, 1st proofs." A sentence of acknowledgment that was added to the copyright page of the book does not appear here. Fine.$75.00NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. Small 8vo, oblong sheets, stapled. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition, printed on paper different from that of the published book; one of only 6 copies produced (following only 3 copies of the 4to galleys). A sentence of acknowledgement that was added to the copyright page of the book does not appear in these (or in the earlier) proofs. Very fine.$12.50Salt Lake City: Litmus (1976). First edition. 64 pp. Spine a bit dark, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.$20.00Sacramento: Grande Ronde Press, 1968. First edition. [24 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Tiny ink price on first leaf. One of 250 copies. Fourteen poems.$25.00Sacramento: Grande Ronde Press, 1968. First edition. [24 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 250 copies. Fourteen poems. SIGNED by Merrill on the front free endpaper.$75.00[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn 1970. First edition. 15 x 10 3/4 inch broadside. Two deckle edges. Fine. Unicorn Broadsheet 7.$12.50NY: New Directions (1969). First trade paperback printing. 153 pp. One small corner crease, small chip to crown. In all, near fine in illustrated wrappers.$25.00NY: New Directions (1949). First edition. 32 pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket with toned spine. A collection of seventeen poems. Dell’Isola A12.$100.00Consigny: Embers Press, 1977. . First Embers edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 1/200 numbered copies. Illustrations by Patrick Burke. Very good in toned wrappers.
$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.$35.00Brockport: Department of English/SUNY, 1971. First edition. [4 pp]. Faint sunning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. A pamphlet printed on the occasion of Merwin’s reading at the college. Prints the single poem, a photo of Merwin, and a brief biograph$125.00Iowa City: Windhover Press (1978). First edition. 70 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else near fine in full black cloth with pasted-on spine label. Frontispiece illustration by Kim Merker. One of 270 copies on Rives paper SIGNED by Merwin.$15.00San Francisco: North Point, 1982. First trade paperback printing. 71 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket.$40.00San Francisco: North Point, 1982. First edition. 71 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.