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Paperback. xvi, 202p., introduction, foreword, very good first edition trade paperback in green pictorial wraps. On writing and writers, interviews,short fiction etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. American Poets Project.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. American Poets Project.

Paperback. xvi, 298p., introduction, notes, short chronology, suggested reading, fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

First edition, first printing Fine and bright glossy stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Trifle age tone. Gift quality.

First edition Very fine and bright blue boards in fine pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Handsome all around.

First edition Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout. A sharp copy.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Trade Paperback Edition. MONUMENTAL: COLLECTIBLE: NEW: First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. November 2002) First Printing: An IMPECCABLE Copy * 6.0" x 9.14" x 1.88", 1.20 kg, xx+885 (905) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication & virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened & his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book, his urbanity & wit, his intriguing images & paradoxes, shone w/ a rare brilliance. As he once told an interviewer, he "looked for English in its billiard-table sense—words that have been set spinning against their own gravity." But beneath their surface glamor, his poems were driven by an audacious imagination that continually sought to deepen & refine our perspectives on experience. Among other roles, he was one of the supreme love poets of the 20th century. In delicate lyric or complex narrative, this book abounds w/ what he once called his "chronicles of love & loss." Like Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising & compelling ways—ways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler spoke for others when she wrote of Merrill, "The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively wait for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life . . . He has become one of our indispensable poets." This book brings together a remarkable body of work in an authoritative edition. From Merrill's privately printed book, "The Black Swan", published in 1946, to his posthumous collection, "A Scattering of Salts", which appeared in 1995, all of the poems he published are included, except for juvenalia and his epic, "The Changing Light at Sandover". In addition, 21 of his translations (from Apollinaire, Montale, & Cavafy, among others) & 44 of his previously uncollected poems (including those written in the last year of his life) are gathered here for the first time. "Collected Poems" was the first volume in a series that presents all of James Merrill's work—his novels & plays, & his collected prose. Together, these volumes testify to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late 20th century & will continue to inspire readers & writers for years to come. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The lyrics in Merrill's "Collected Poems" ought to last as long as people still care about poetry . . . poetry as alive as Merrill's is why people care." -David Gates, Newsweek "Gigantic & ravishing. What this new volume provides, not w/o a small shock even to those familiar w/ Merrill, is the size & scope of his accomplishment: Monumental" -Daniel Mendelsohn, NYTBR * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates or as quoted on request.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback with faint stain to back cover and last few pages. Edward W. Said - Third World Intellectuals / Metropolitan Culture. John G. Blair - Chain And Democracy. Alan H. Friedman - The French Lesson (fiction). Nancy Huston - A Tongue Called Mother. Edward Snow - Bruegel's Peasant Dance. Daniel Aaron - Theodore Roosevelt As Cultural Artifact. J. D. McClatchy - Two Poems. Lee Rust Brown - Emersonian Transparency. ; D3D; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages. …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Printed wrappers. 560pp. Page toning else near fine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 654pp. Trade paperback. Pages lightly age-toned, wrappers lightly foxed, very good. Publisher's card "With the Compliments of the Author" laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: LANDMARK: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. March 3, 2001) Third Printing (April 2001): NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW black linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE mauve card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets, PRISTINE interior printed in Fournier w/ ELEGANT clarity on excellent unblemished archival paper * 6.12" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.38 kg, xx+888 (908) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The publication of James Merrill's "Collected Poems" is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication & virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened & his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book, his urbanity & wit, his intriguing images & paradoxes, shone w/ a rare brilliance. As he once told an interviewer, he "looked for English in its billiard-table sense—words that have been set spinning against their own gravity." But beneath their surface glamor, his poems were driven by an audacious imagination that continually sought to deepen & refine our perspectives on experience. Among other roles, he was one of the supreme love poets of the 20th century. In delicate lyric or complex narrative, this book abounds w/ what he once called his "chronicles of love & loss." Like Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising & compelling ways—ways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler spoke for others when she wrote of Merrill, "The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively wait for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life . . . He has become one of our indispensable poets." This book brings together a remarkable body of work in an authoritative edition. From Merrill's privately printed book, "The Black Swan", published in 1946, to his posthumous collection, "A Scattering of Salts", which appeared in 1995, all of the poems he published are included, except for juvenalia and his epic, "The Changing Light at Sandover". In addition, 21 of his translations (from Apollinaire, Montale, & Cavafy, among others) & 44 of his previously uncollected poems (including those written in the last year of his life) are gathered here for the first time. "Collected Poems" was the first volume in a series that presents all of James Merrill's work—his novels & plays, & his collected prose. Together, these volumes testify to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late 20th century & will continue to inspire readers & writers for years to come. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The lyrics in Merrill's "Collected Poems" ought to last as long as people still care about poetry . . . poetry as alive as Merrill's is why people care." -David Gates, Newsweek "Gigantic & ravishing. What this new volume provides, not w/o a small shock even to those familiar w/ Merrill, is the size & scope of his accomplishment: Monumental" -Daniel Mendelsohn, NYTBR * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates or as quoted on request.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated colour cover and no inscriptions or creases. Pages are clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Date on title page. Fine hardback in fine dust jacket (U. S. A. $40.00 Canada $60.00). Only trivial, if any signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxvi, 403 pp. LCC: 33552.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Slight creasing else near fine.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Cream wrappers. Slight creasing on the spine else near fine.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Glossy printed wrappers. Fine.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Volume 86, No. 3. Glossy wrappers. Lightly sunned spine, else fine. Includes contributions by: Alexander Theroux, Eric Bentley, Kathleen Hill, Eleanor Ross Taylor, William Logan, John Hollander, May Swenson, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Volume 86, Number 2. 187pp. Fine in glossy wrappers. Contributions by John Barth, Donald Justice, John Ashbery, Alan Trachtenberg, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Single issue. 189pp. Glossy wrappers. Corners slightly flared, edges lightly bumped, very good. Contributions by David Bromwich, John Updike, David Lehman, Charles Wright, and many more.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Margins lightly toned, else fine. Poems by 80 poets including Derek Walcott, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Joseph Brodsky, and many more.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Tall octavo. 260pp. Glossy wrappers. Very light foxing on bottom edge, else fine. Includes "Wingbeat" by Vladimir Nabokov, "Days of 1952" by James Merrill, and more. Promotional material from the editor laid in.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Tall octavo. 188pp. Glossy wrappers. Light foxing on bottom edge with a tiny crease on the front corner, near fine. Includes "Cosmo" by James Merrill, "The Raft" by Jean McGarry, and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 16mo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Volume 86, No. 1. Fine in glossy wrappers. Includes contributions by: Donald Hall, Barbara Hurd, Karl Maier, Alexander Theroux, Chris Ware, Julie Orringer, James Longenbach, Greg Williamson, and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Small octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. Fine.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Quarto. Blue wrappers. Slightly cocked spine and toning thus very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.