First Appearance in Engalnd
Item 38401Selected Poems.
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London: Chatto and Windus with the Hogarth Press, 1961. First edition. First Appearance in Engalnd. Read More Item Details for Selected Poems Add to Wish List
Item #38401
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London: Chatto and Windus with the Hogarth Press, 1961. First edition. First Appearance in Engalnd. Read More Item Details for Selected Poems Add to Wish List
Item #38401
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East Dorset, Vermont: Anthony Harrigan, [1947]. One of 200 copies. Inscribed by Merrill and Wilbur. Inscribed by Merrill at his contribution ("The Formal Lovers"): "Robert Wilson from James Merrill." Additionally inscribed by Wilbur at his contribution ("My Father Paints the Summer"): "Inscribed for Robert A. Wilson 8 December 1962 Richard..... Read More Item Details for Ten Poets Anthology Add to Wish List
Item #315142
Price: $850
[N.p.]: printed by Jordan Davies, 1984. Number 51 of 58 copies, printed for the poet on his birthday, March 3, 1984. Inscribed and Corrected by Merrill. Inscribed on the title page: "corrected & inscribed for Bob Wilson – James Merrill," with brief holograph corrections to four poems. Read More Item Details for Occasions & Inscriptions Add to Wish List
Item #315140
Price: $125
Salem, Oregon: printed at the Rara Avis Press in Riverside, California for Charles Seluzicki, 1982. First edition, one of 200 copies, signed by the author on the colophon. Signed. Read More Item Details for Marbled Paper Add to Wish List
Item #315138
Price: $275
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1947. Features five poems by Merrill, including "The Black Swan," "The Broken Bowl," "Accumulations of the Sea," "Medusa," and "Perspectivecs of the Lonesome Eye." The anthology includes twelve poets who worked with editor Kimon Friar of the poetry center at the 92nd Street Y. Scarce;..... Read More Item Details for The Poetry Center Presents. Edited with an introduction by Kimon Friar Add to Wish List
Item #315137
Price: $250
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1955. First edition. Inscribed by Merrill. Inscribed: "James Merrill - for Robert A. Wilson (1962)" at the head of his contribution. "The Bait," which Tennessee Williams hailed as a masterpiece, was first performed at The Artist's Theatre, N.Y., in June 1953, and broadcast on BBC Thrid..... Read More Item Details for "The Bait" [in] Quarterly Review of Literature. Volume VIII Number 2 Add to Wish List
Item #315135
Price: $350
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. First edition, one of a limited edition of 330 copies signed by the author. A presentation copy of Merrill's poem, here published in book form after first appearing in The New Yorker the previous year. Inscribed at the poet's home in Key West "from..... Read More Item Details for Samos Add to Wish List
Item #310973
Price: $150
[New York]: Sea Cliff Press, 1986. First published edition (preceded by a draft issue, photocopies and circulated among friends), No. 19 of 220 copies, signed. Read More Item Details for The Image Maker. A Play in One Act Add to Wish List
Item #310941
Price: $750
New York: Atheneum, 1982. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "for -- & --/with the best wishes/from JM, DJ, & Co./(James Merrill)/Stonington!/viii.83" Read More Item Details for The Changing Light at Sandover. Including the whole of The Book of Ephraim, Mirabell’s Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant snd a new coda, The Higher Keys Add to Wish List
Item #310940
Price: $300
New York: Nadja Press 265-1/2 West 94th St, 1984. First Edition, Copy "D" of 226 copies, numbered 1-200 and 26 lettered A-Z. Signed. One of 26 Copies. Read More Item Details for Souvenirs Add to Wish List
Item #310319
Price: $1,000
[New York: Peter Hooten for a class at the Center of the Book Arts, November 1984]. First edition, consisting of 5 numbered copies, signed by Merrill; this being numbered "O", and docketed in ms., “Printer's proof”. Although only 5 numbered copies were issued, Hagstrom notes that “at least two printer’s..... Read More Item Details for Rendezvous Add to Wish List
Item #301192
Price: $250
[Cambridge, Mass: Laurence Scott, November, 1984]. Scott, Laurence. No. 47 of 60 numbered copies, signed by the artist and author. Read More Item Details for Snapshot of Adam [drop-title] Add to Wish List
Item #300819
Price: $150
[Winston Salem, North Carolina]: Palaemon Press Limited, 1982. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by James Merrill. Read More Item Details for Orfeo [drop-title] Add to Wish List
Item #300818
Price: $200
Cambridge, Mass: The Pomegranite Press, November, 1974. Klopp, Karyl. No. 22 of 100 copies signed by the author and illustrator (total edition 180 copies) printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on handmade paper. Read More Item Details for Five Inscriptions Add to Wish List
Item #300811
Price: $7,500
[N.p: no publisher, 1971]. First edition, one of only 26 copies. One of 26 Copies, True First — Inscribed by Merrill. The rare staple-bound first of 1971, consisting of only 26 copies. The author’s introductory note on the title page is dated St. Louis, xi.1971. This copy is inscribed by..... Read More Item Details for The Yellow Pages. 59 Poems Add to Wish List
Item #264826
Price: $100
New York: Knopf, 1992. First edition. Read More Item Details for Selected Poems 1946-1985 Add to Wish List
Item #259581
Price: $1,000
[New York: Sea Cliff, 1993]. ONE OF 8 COPIES. 4-line poem to Lyn Chase (President of the Academy of American Poets) from Merrill. RARE. Read More Item Details for To L.C. from J.M. on Her Birthday, MXMIII [drop title] Add to Wish List
Item #259577
Price: $125
[New York]: Nadja, [1984]. No. 102 of 150 copies numbered and signed by Merrill (total edition of 176). Read More Item Details for Bronze Add to Wish List
Item #259576
Price: $750
New York: Atheneum, 1982. First edition. Inscribed to Robert Wilson. Inscribed on the half-title to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop: “All love to Robert Wilson — from James Merrill & Co.”. Read More Item Details for The Changing Light at Sandover. Including the whole of The Book of Ephraim, Mirabell’s Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant snd a new coda, The Higher Keys Add to Wish List
Item #259521
Price: $225
London: Chatto and Windus and The Hogarth Press, 1972. First edition. Inscribed on the title page by Merrill to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop. Read More Item Details for Two Poems: From the Cupola and The Summer People Add to Wish List
Item #259517
Price: $2,250
[Athens: Printed by the Christos Christou Press, April 1963]. One of 50 copies, none offered for sale. One of the scarcest Merrill titles, privately printed. This copy bears a fine inscription to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop: “For Robert Wilson, The author’s thorough, perhaps his only, collector. J.M...... Read More Item Details for The Thousand and Second Night Add to Wish List
Item #259515
Price: $150
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition, UNCORRECTED PROOF, one of 100 issued by the publisher. Signed on the title page by Merrill. Read More Item Details for The Inner Room Add to Wish List
Item #259514
Price: $150
New York: Atheneum, 1980. First edition, issue in wrappers. Inscribed by Merrill on the title page to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop. Read More Item Details for Scripts for the Pageant Add to Wish List
Item #259512
Price: $100
New York: Atheneum, 1973. First edition, third printing, issue in wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop: “For Robert Wilson, friend & publisher - James Merrill”. Read More Item Details for Braving the Elements Add to Wish List
Item #259511
Price: $300
London: Chatto & Windus, 1965. First English edition. Merrill’s Second Novel, Inscribed. Inscribed by Merrill on the title page to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop. Read More Item Details for The (Diblos) Notebook Add to Wish List
Item #259509