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$20.00London: Poetry Book Society, 1961. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by Michael Benedikt, Anne Sexton, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, Barbara Guest, Armand Schwerner, David Ignatow, William Stafford, James Wright, Robert Creeley, and Louis Simpson. Issued for members at Christmas. -
$65.00NY: Atheneum, 1969. First edition. 127 pp. Fine in very near fine fragile dust jacket with a single short closed tear.
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$30.00NY: Atheneum, 1985. First edition. 247 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a small abrasion to rear cover; a trade paperback original. Merwin’s translations of ROBERT THE DEVIL (Anon. 14th c.), Alain-Rene Lesage’s THE RIVAL OF HIS MASTER AND TURCARET, and Pierre de marivaux’s THE FALSE CONFESSIONS.
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$25.00London & NY: Abelard-Schuman (1961). First edition. 127 pp w/bibliography & notes. Page edges lightly foxed, one small spot to bottom edge of one board, else near fine in like, price-clipped dust jacket. Merwin's second book-length translation.
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$25.00NY: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1961. First US edition. 158 pp w/bibliography & notes. Some light foxing along top edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems translated from the original Spanish by Merwin with his introduction.
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$75.00Garden City: Anchor/Doubleday (1962). First edition. 152 pp. Previous owner's inked name inside front cover, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers; a mass-market paperback original. SIGNED by Merwin on the title page.
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$20.00London: Anvil Press Poetry (1981). First UK edition. 109 pp w/notes. Very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Introduction by William S. Anderson. Poetica 3. -
$50.00NY: Vintage (1970). First edition. 109 pp. Previous owner's inked name to front free endpaper, else very good plus in rubbed wrappers; a mass-market paperback original. SIGNED by Merwin on the title page.
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$75.00Paris: Embers 1977. First edition. Unpaginated. Light uneven fading to covers, else near fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Poems translated from the Spanish by W.S. Merwin. Illustrations by Patrick Burke. One of 200 numbered copies handprinted on "mold-made" white rag paper.
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$35.00NY: Oxford University Press, 1978. First edition. xii + 112 pp w/glossary. Boards slightly splayed, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Forward by William Arrowsmith. A volume in “The Greek Tragedy in New Translations” series. -
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$45.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1990). Uncorrected proof. 389 pp. Near fine in printed mustard wrappers with publication date inked to front cover and a promotional sheet taped to rear cover.
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$35.00NY: Gagosian Gallery (1997). First edition. 79 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine dust jacket.
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$10.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1995. First trade paperback edition. 333 pp. w/author biographies. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited with a Preface by Messerli. An annual volume.
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$10.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1998. First trade paperback edition. 133 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A collection of poems loosely translated from, and named after, originals. Sun & Moon Classics 131.
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$10.00Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1993. First edition. 87 pp. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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$50.00College Park & NY: Sun & Moon Press (1979). First edition. 54 pp. Foxing to front and rear covers, else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. One of 350 numbered copies. Dated (6/6/81) and INSCRIBED by Messerli on the title page.
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$10.00Los Angeles: Corner Books. (1991). Later edition. 34 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A Blue Corner Drama, No. 4.
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$22.50College Park: La-Bas (1977). [44 pp]. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Lyn Hejinian, Jack Hirschman, Bruce Andrews, Gene Fowler, Larry Eigner, and others.
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$20.00NY: Knopf, 2006. First edition. 431 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (Nov 14, ‘06) and INSCRIBED by Messud.
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$45.00Delta: Bastard Press (1977). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 86 pp. Fine in decorated full cloth. No dust jacket. One of 130 numbered copies SIGNED by Metcalf and Newlove.
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$25.00[Vancouver]: Tanks (1987). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 19 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Metcalf. A contemplation of what makes a national literature, against the effect of state subsidy. -
$25.00Asheville: Jonathan Williams, 1956. First edition. 68 pp. Dampstain to fore-edge of first three leaves, else very good plus in wrappers and like dust jacket with tanned spine. Dated (April, 1972) and INSCRIBED by Metcalf, “For Bob Bertholf, / Fellow Injun, / Paul Metcalf.”Jargon 25.
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$100.00Ashville: Jonathan Williams, 1956. First edition. 68 pp. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket with the price on the front flap inked-out, and light sunning to spine. One of 500 copies. Dated (August 19, 1970) and INSCRIBED by Metcalf on the front free endpaper, “For Alex Gildzen, / with best regards, / Paul C. Metcalf.”
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$45.00Providence: Paradigm Press (1992). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp w/bibliography]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 30 numbered copies SIGNED by Metcalf.
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$25.00Providence: Paradigm Press (1992). First trade edition. [24 pp]. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Metcalf.
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$15.00Providence: Paradigm Press (1992). First trade edition. [24 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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$15.00[Dentdale]: Jargon Society, 1991. First edition. [32 pp w/glossary & bibliography]. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket. Cover art by Mary Tillman Smith. Jargon 109.
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$50.00Minneapolis & Tucson: Granary Books/Chax Press, 1987. First edition. [44 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine dust jacket with a light vertical crease to spine. Illustrated by Cynthia Miller. One of 236 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Metcalf.
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$35.00Penland: Jargon Society, 1973. First printing of this trade paperback edition. 190 pp w/bibliography. Light foxing to page edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Metcalf on the first leaf.
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$35.00Milwaukee: Membrane Press (1989). First edition. [76 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Pairs two earlier letterpress editions into a handsome trade edition. -
$45.00Tucson: Chax Press, 1985. First edition. [58 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine and along top edges. Illustrations by Wendy Osterweil. One of 150 numbered copies.