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$25.00Hereford: Five Seasons Press, 2006. First edition. 272 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Merchant on the title page. Translations, reworkings, interpretations, and responses with over forty illustrations.
$35.00NY: Grossman (1968). First US edition. [48 pp]. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine and extrems. Merchant introduces and translates George Seferis, Andreas Embiricos, Oddyseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos, Takis Sinopoulos, and Eleni Vakalo.
$25.00Berkeley: Tree, 1975. First edition. [56 pp]. Fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Poems.
$75.00NY: Atheneum, 1976. First edition. 136 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a short corner crease to front flap. Merrill's Pulitzer Prize winning collection, which combines his long (100 pages) poem "The Book of Ephraim" with nine shorter poems. Review slip laid in.
$250.00NY: Atheneum, 1966. First edition. 56 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with some toning to spine and top edge of rear panel. Winner of the National Book Award for poetry.
$300.00[Ann Arbor: Laurence Scott] (1984). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Six poems with a frontspiece illustration by Scott. One of 149 numbered copies SIGNED by Merrill on the colophon page, and by Scott at his artwork.
$500.00Pawlet: Banyan Press, 1954. First edition. 10 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and printed cover label. One of 210 numbered copies of which 60 were for sale and 150 for friends of the poet and printer. This is copy 203. Poems.
$250.00NY: Nadja (1984). First edition, lettered & signed issue. Tall narrow 8vo. [16 pp]. Fine in full red cloth with inset printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies (the entire hardcover edition) on HMP and Rives papers SIGNED by Merrill.
$20.00London: Chatto & Windus/ Hogarth Press, 1970. First UK edition. 52 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. The first hardcover edition, as the US edition of a year earlier was a paperback original.
$75.00Amherst: Friends of the Amherst College Press, 1983. First edition. Single sheet folded twice (5 x 6 3/4 inches, closed). Small mark on rear cover, else fine with original printed mailing envelope. One of 450 copies. SIGNED by Merrill on the front cover. Hagstrom & Morgan A47.
$25.00Oshkosh: Road Runner Press [1969]. First edition. 15 pp. Three tiny spots on font cover, else fine in stapled wrappers. An essay, published originally in Kulchur #11 (Summer, 1963), during the “Cuba Crisis.”
$25.00San Francisco: Kayak (1969). First edition. 31 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with drawings by Lynn Schroeder. Designed and printed by George Hitchcock in an edition of 1200 copies.
$75.00[San Francisco]: Square Zero Editions, 1978. First edition. 17 x 10 1/2 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Designed by Shelley Hoyt-Koch. Printed at Black Stone Press. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Merwin.
$75.00NY: Atheneum, 1979. First edition. xviii + 125 pp. Fine in wrappers with one tiny corner-crease. Merwin’s English translations with his substantial foreword. Dated (Peacock Cafe / New York / May 1981) and INSCRIBED by Merwin on the title page.
$450.00New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. First edition. 87 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. A fresh bright copy of his second collection.
$450.00NY: Atheneum, 1967. First edition. 80 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light discoloration and pale spots to spine. A less common key Merwin title from Atheneum.
$25.00Berkeley: Small Press Distribution, 1999. First edition. 10 1/2 x 8 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. One deckle edge. One of 200 copies.
$20.00London: Poetry Book Society, 1961. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by Michael Benedikt, Anne Sexton, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, Barbara Guest, Armand Schwerner, David Ignatow, William Stafford, James Wright, Robert Creeley, and Louis Simpson. Issued for members at Christmas.
$20.00London: Anvil Press Poetry (1981). First UK edition. 109 pp w/notes. Very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Introduction by William S. Anderson. Poetica 3.
$35.00NY: Oxford University Press, 1978. First edition. xii + 112 pp w/glossary. Boards slightly splayed, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Forward by William Arrowsmith. A volume in “The Greek Tragedy in New Translations” series.
$25.00[Vancouver]: Tanks (1987). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 19 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Metcalf. A contemplation of what makes a national literature, against the effect of state subsidy.
$35.00Milwaukee: Membrane Press (1989). First edition. [76 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Pairs two earlier letterpress editions into a handsome trade edition.
$400.00London & Brussels: Nicholson & Watson (1948). First edition. 352 pp. Very good plus in full cloth. Jacket flaps and cover panels clipped and pasted the endpapers. Metcalfe’s own copy. Dated (November 9, 1948) and SIGNED by Metcalfe inside the front cover above his personalized bookplate. There are at least six corrections by Metcalfe to the text.
$75.00Winston-Salem: Jargon Society, 1999. First trade edition. 4to. 257 pp. Fine in plain wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece photograph by Mark Steinmetz. One of 900 copies. SIGNED Meyer and Jonathan Williams (his publisher and partner), who is also the first of the book's dedicatees. Jargon 102.
$35.00[Highlands: Jargon Society, 1979]. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch card, printed in two colors. Fine. Very good plus printed envelope that is lightly soiled. SIGNED by Meyer. Jargon 51.
$50.00Asheville: French Broad Press, 1989. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Jacket text by Jonathan Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meyer and Williams. Additionally SIGNED by Jessa Bayer and J.W. Bonner, who published this book.
$250.00Champaign: Finial Press, 1983. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies, the entire edition, SIGNED by Meyer. Another beautiful book from the press, printed in five colors.
$75.00(np): Jargon Society (1971). First edition. [184 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Frontis drawing by John Furnival. Poems. Jargon 88.
$100.00Urbana: Finial Press/Stonewall Press (1971). First edition. [30 pp]. Fine in artificial leather-covered boards. Three-color, hand-woven macrame bookmark bound in. One of 250 copies on Rives Light. A long poem with a printed dedication to Guy Davenport. Berger 46. Young 2687.
$100.00Scarborough: Catalyst (1977). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [48 pp]. Fine in full cloth and very near fine dust jacket. Cover art and design by A. Doyle Moore. Drawings by Tom Kovacs. Introduction by Jonathan William. One of 49 numbered copies SIGNED by Meyer and Williams.
$250.00London: Gefn Press, 1981. First edition. [42 pp]. Fine in wrappers of lunar-like, textured iridescent paper, housed in a soft denim slipcase. Letterpress text illustrated throughout with collagraphs by Susan Johanknecht. One of 40 numbered copies SIGNED by Meynell and Johanknecht.