James Merrill J D Mcclatchy (148 results)

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. McClatchy, J. D. (illustrator). May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. McClatchy, J. D. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing. Fine, a clean tight unmarked copy. Slight rubbing to cover.

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Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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

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

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book Condition: Good. Yellow boards with illustration on cover. White and yellow letters. Rub wear on edges, and some rub areas on covers. School Property stamp inside front cover.Some student listed, ink marks, Drawing and some white out on flyleaf page .Back endsheet has white out and some letters. . A few light stain spots near top corner of 8 pages in Chapter 7, doesn't affect text. Otherwise rest of 563 pages are clean, white pages and tight binding. A used book, with mostly clean, bright, pages.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Unpaginated; 9 1/2 x 8 5/8" Foxing to top page edge; sun-fading to jacket spine; light wear to jacket spine edges and corners; 1/2" tear to top jacket edge; jacket in mylar sleeve.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. NY: Knopf, 2002. First edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 676 pp. Ribbon marker. Tiny remainder mark to bottom of pages, else new. Near fine in fine dust jacket, protected with a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.14.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Small remainder mark on bottom edge.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket is rubbed and toned with isolated edge wear, in a mylar cover.

McClatchy, J. D. (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 202, Bound in publisher's wraps, a very good copy. With a foreword by Merrill.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 885 pages. A posthumously released comprehensive anthology of poems from this Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author. A clean and tight very near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket with special preview edition sticker to the rear flap.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Trade Paperback Edition. MONUMENTAL: NEW: First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. November 2002) First Printing * 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First printing. Minor wear to binding with slightly bowed spine. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

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

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Knopf, New York, 2004. First edition. First printing. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A clean tight copy, never even opened. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($40.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in blue & gray wrapppers. The binding is bumped & very lightly rubbed with a vertical crease to the spine & a small stain to the top edge of the rear cover. [iv] & 260 pages plus ads. Very good. Among the contents of this double issue are a prose piece by James Merrill; an article on Joseph Smith by Harold Bloom, and one on Moliere's "The School for Husbands" by Richard Wilbur with Wilbur's translation of its second act; fiction by Vladimir Nabokov and Amy Hempel; and poetry by Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich and Gary Snyder.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. New York, Knopf, 2001. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy, never even opened. Price intact on front jacket flap ($40.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. This collection was edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser. Poetry-O.

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].

8vo, original wrappers with printed paper label. First edition; one of 90 copies. Fine.

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.