James Merrill Introduction (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing. Fine, a clean tight unmarked copy. Slight rubbing to cover.

paperback. Condition: New. Excellent condition. Interior is tight, bright and clean; no underlining, notes or highlighting. Binding is smooth and solid. Paperback cover is clean and sticker free. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. All items are carefully enclosed with bubble wrap. We ship promptly and worldwide via US Post and will email you a tracking number.…

1st North Point paperback edition. 202 pages. Light foxing along top edge. otherwise a clean very good trade paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

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

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

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

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

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition, a paperback original. Faint toning to spine, else book in fine condition. Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Joan Root (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 269 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt And Silver Gilt. First Printing, With 1890 Date On Title Page. Light Rubbing At Corners. Bookplate Of James Fraser Gluck (1852-1897), Prominent Buffalo Area Attorney. He Was Influential In Establishing The School Of Philosophy At Cornell, Where He Was A Trustee. Through Mr. Gluck's Influence The System Of Scholarships Was Also Established Whereby Poor And Meritorious Students Received University Aid For Four Years To The Amount Of $250 A Year. At The Time Of His Death He Was President Of The Grosvenor Library And A Director Of The Buffalo Library. While Curator Of The Buffalo Library. Mr. Gluck Made A Collection Of Manuscripts, Autograph Letters Of Famous Men, Historical Documents Of Value And Rare Books; And Just Before The Close Of His Term Of Office He Surprised The Trustees Of The Library By Presenting To Them For The Institution What Many Deemed The Most Valuable Collection Of The Kind In The Country. His Private Library Was Probably The Largest Private Library In The City, And Distinctively Rich In History, Philosophy, Science And The Classics. Gluck Corresponded With Many Authors, Including Mark Twain, From Whom He Obtained The Original Manuscript Of "Huckleberry Finn", The Second Half Of Which Was Presumed Lost But Discovered 100 Years Later By One Of His Granddaughters In Their Attic.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. North Point, San Francisco, 1986. First edition. First printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy, as new, appears unread, without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright, with price intact on front flap ($25). Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Although not marked as such in any way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy, from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. McClatchy also took the author photograph, featured on the rear cover of the jacket. This is from a box of author copies kept by McClatchy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. this is the prospectus for the publication of "Dante's Inferno", it is a large folded thick paper; the one example it has is "from Canto XXV/ Richard Wilbur"; in original mailing envelope; some browning to top edges, otherwise in GOOD COND.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 10 x 8 inches. Unpaginated, but approximately 64 pp. 8vo. b/w and color plates. Illustrated wraps. Faint shelf-wear. Near Fine.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy. A clean, unmarked copy. Although not marked in any such way, this book came from the library of poet and literary critic J.D. McClatchy (who wrote the introduction for this title), from his estate in Stonington, Connecticut. [Poetry-M].

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. pp 36. Text in Italian. From the Athens library of Alan Ansen- 5 small corrections in text, likely to be in the hand of Merrill. 300 copies printed. Rather used and marked copy, slight soiling also at prelims but otherwise with clean text.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. One of 185 copies, quarto size, [50] pp., signed by J.D. McClatchy and Mariana Cook. James Merrill (1926-1995), known as one of the leading poets of his generation, won nearly every major award for poetry - including two National Book Awards, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry awarded by the Library of Congress, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize. Praised for his stylish elegance, moral sensibilities, and transformation of autobiographical moments into deep and complex meditations, Merrill's work spans genres, including plays and prose, but the bulk of his artistic expression can be found in his poetry (n.b., from Poetry Foundation web site). This work, published posthumously, contain the last seven poems Merrill worked on prior to his death (and which can be considered "finished"), here printed for the first time. "Nearly all of these seven poems begin with a sensation - a color, say, or a glimpse of weather.a sense of possiblility. Each poem then moves through a series of implications, a collage of circumstances, towards some larger idea of itself." (n.b., from the Introduction). Masterfully printed by the Thornwillow Press, the frontis photograph taken in April of 1992, with specially-designed endpapers by Irena Martens. ___DESCRIPTION: Half-leather over textured paste paper boards, gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt, the special endpapers with small decorations of various sea-creatures over paste paper, title page in red and black, Introduction with a three-line red initial capital; quarto size (11 1/8" by 7 7/8"), unpaginated with twenty-five printed leaves, no. 62 of 185 copies, signed at the colophone by J.D. McClatchy and Mariana Cook. ___CONDITION: Near fine, the leather smooth and supple, clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some scattered foxing and a few light marks which appear to be in the paper (not soiling on the surface), else fine. Lacking the slipcase. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.…