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$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, 1972. First edition. 73 pp. Light taps to upper corners, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Young 2675. -
$300.00NY: Nadja (1984). First edition, lettered & signed issue. [22 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards. Fine publisher’s slotted paper envelope. One of 26 lettered copies on Hayle paper SIGNED by Merrill. A single poem.
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$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. -
$300.00NY: Knopf, 1951. First edition. 72 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Merrill’s first regularly-published book.
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$35.00Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1983. First edition. Small 4to. [12 pp]. Faint sunning along top edges, else fine in stab-bound wrappers with printed cover label. One of 290 numbered copies on Goyu paper.
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$50.00NY: Atheneum, 1982. First edition. xii + 362 pp. Top edge faded, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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$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. -
$35.00Pawlet: Banyan Press, 1977. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 440 numbered copies on Arches. Original printed mailing envelope present. Young 2678.
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$25.00NY: Atheneum, 1978. First edition. 182 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear top back and front, a small closed tear lower back at spine.
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$45.00NY: Atheneum, 1978. First edition. 182 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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$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.