Dancing Bears by Merwin (21 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. 261pp. Fine being poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penciled on the front fly and his pencil marginalia on a few pages. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Near Fine copy in white cloth, caramel colored endpapers, in a Fine glossy black dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Front endpaper defective. Spine of jacket slightly dulled. 261pp. Text clean and unmarked. Reading copy. Q22966. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Boards betray fading and nicks. Text is clear of markings. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket With Very Very Slight Yellowing To Spine And Edges, Still Bright, Slight Rubbing On Edges At Corners, 1/16"Hole Near Center Of Spine. Price Clipped. A Very Attractive Copy.…

Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket With Very Very Slight Yellowing To Spine And Edges, Still Bright. A Very Attractive Copy.

First edition, first printing Very close to fine and bright in like dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. Has become scarce in the cloth edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Covers edgeworn. Name written front endpapers. Jacket edgeworn and chipped.

Condition: Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. 1st edition. 12mo Hardcover. 88pp. Very Good book, Good dust jacket. Some edgewear. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover. (poetry, modern, 20th century) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. A touch of rubbing on the bottom of the boards, else fine in very good dust jacket with rubbing and tanning along the thin spine.

First edition Poet's second book of poems. Near fine decorative boards with trifle marks to boards in fine bright dustjacket with light adhesive shadow. Does not bother any part of the text. Review copy with review sticker to full title page and dedication page and decorative former owner's to flyleaf. Text clean. Scarce. New and bright all around, gift quality.…

First edition, first printing. Original pictorial boards with titles in white to the spine and upper board, in the Norman Gorbaty designed dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding firm, the spine tips and corners ever so slightly rubbed. The contents, with a neat gift inscription to the front free endpaper and the initials of the recipient in the top corner the half title are otherwise clean throughout. The closed text block edge is a little dusty with a couple of foxing spots. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is faded to the spine and otherwise bright and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($2.75 to the upper front front flap). W. S. Merwin's second book of poetry in what would become and oeuvre of over 50 books. Merwin received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, the National Book Award for Poetry, and the Academy of American Pooets' Tanning Prize, among many other awards. In 2010 he became the 17th United States Poet Laureate. Nature and mythological themes were central to the his early poetry, while his later work showed the influence of his investment in the anti-war movement, environmentalism and Zen Buddhism. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper has very slight fading on the spine and is now protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Slight bump to crown of spine, else a fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with tanning and rubbing at the thin spine.

Hardcover First Printing. First Edition. All edges rubbed else fine in near fine dust jacket with just a hint of darkening to spine, in mylar cover. Signed by the poet on the half-title page.; Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Small octavo. 5.5 x 7.5 in. 88 pp. Near fine in original pictorial paper-covered boards with some shelfwear to bottom edges and a very good pictorial dust jacket with rubbing to edges and sunning to spine. The poet Mark Strand's copy with his ownership signature to front free endpaper. A laid-in a TLS by Merwin to Strand from 1967. The letter discusses which poems Merwin wants Strand to use to include in an upcoming poetry anthology, likely The Contemporary Poets: American Poetry Since 1940, published in 1969. A lovely association copy. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good first edition in a very good dust jacket of the author's second book of poetry. Original price of $2.75 still present on the front flap of the dust jacket. One of the best American poets of the 20th Century. 1954 stated on title page and no mention of later printings on the copyright page. Poetry books are published in notoriously small printings, and even then most copies remain unsold. …

First Edition, 1954. A Near Fine hardcover copy in blue and red decorated paper covered boards, in dustwrapper of same design. Price-clipped. This copy is SIGNED by Merwin on the top of the front free endpaper. Additionally, it is SIGNED by poet Stephen Berg, underneath Merwin's. Three leaves have ink check-marks beside titles, presumably Berg's annotations. 88pp. Merwin's Second book, uncommon, especially signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, inscribed by Merwin on the front free endpaper. Merwin's second book of poetry. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A nice association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow poet William Matchett on the ffep: Love to Bill & Judy Matchett / all these years later. / Seattle / May 1983 (signed) W.S. Merwin. Also with Matchett's name and date on the ffep. A nice Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Merwin's uncommon second book.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Merwin's uncommon second book, this copy SIGNED by the poet. Lower corners very lightly bumped. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper.

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A spectacular copy of Merwin's second book.