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$45.00NY: Atheneum, 1978. First edition. 182 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. -
$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. -
$75.00London: Chatto And Windus/ The Hogarth Press, 1966. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 46 pp. National Book Award winner. The Phoenix Living Poets Series. Near fine with an ownership signature in a near fine jacket with a toned spine.
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$350.00NY: Nadja (1990). First edition, lettered & signed issue. [28 pp]. Fine in full blue cloth with inset printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies (the entire hardcover edition) on English Somerset paper SIGNED by Merrill.
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$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. -
$35.00San Francisco: North Point, 1986. First edition. 202 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Forty years of occasional prose by the poet. Edited and introduced by J.D. McClatchy.
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$25.00NY: Atheneum (1980). First edition. 235 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Young 2680.
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$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.
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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. -
$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.” -
$35.00NY: Atheneum, 1969. First edition. 77 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Twenty-six poems.
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$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.”
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$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.
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$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.”
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$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.
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$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).
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$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.
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$25.00London: Chatto and Windus/ Hogarth Press (1972). First edition. 47 pp. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped jacket jacket.
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$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.
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$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.
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$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.
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$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.
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$12.50Salt Lake City: Litmus (1976). First edition. 64 pp. Spine a bit dark, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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$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.
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$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.
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$75.00[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn 1970. First edition. 15 x 10 3/4 inch broadside. Two deckle edges. Fine. Unicorn Broadsheet 7.
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$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.
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$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.