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Merrill, James. Selected Poems. Chatto & Windus / the Hogarth Press, 1961.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket worn and chipped. Inscription on front endpaper.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
MERRILL, James. Selected Poems. Hogarth Press / Chatto & Windus, (London), 1961.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. No equivalent U.S. edition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Merrill, James. Selected Poems. Chatto and Windus / The Hogarth Press, London, 1961.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 63 pp. The first volume of Merrill's verse to be published in the United Kingdom. A tiny bit of wear to spine ends. Very good or better in somewhat darkened dustwrapper which has a small chip at mid-spine area. There was no U.S. equivalent to this title.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
MERRILL, James. Selected Poems. Chatto and Windus/ The Hogarth Press, (London), 1961.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips and tears. The first volume of Merrill's poetry to appear in England, published in "The Phoenix Living Poets" series, with no equivalent American edition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo pp. 63
Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada
MERRILL, James. Selected Poems. Chatto and Windus/ The Hogarth Press, (London), 1961.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with couple of tiny nicks and tears. The first volume of Merrill's poetry to appear in England, published in "The Phoenix Living Poets" series, with no equivalent American edition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
James Merrill. Selected Poems. Chatto and Windus wit the Hogarth Press, London, 1961.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near-immaculate copy of the 1961 1st UK edition (with no American counterpart) and 1st book of James Merrill's published in the UK. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with the slightest trace of minute chipping at the spine crown. Patterned dustjacket design by Enid Marx. Handsome and very presentable.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Merrill, James.. Selected Poems.. Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, London, 1961.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression. A Fine copy in a Fine jacket, price-clipped. 63pp. Merrill first book in England. Q15726
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Merrill, James. Selected Poems. Chatto and Windus with the Hogarth Press, London, 1961.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Appearance in Engalnd. Hagstrom & Bixby A13A Orange cloth in very fine yellow printed dust jacket
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Merrill, James. Selected Poems. Chatto and Windus with the Hogarth Press, London, 1961.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Appearance in England. Merrill's first appearance in England, as part of the publisher's "Phoenix Living Poets" series; no comparable edition was issued in America. This copy is inscribed: "Robert Wilson - best wishes from James Merrill, 1963". Hagstrom & Bixby A13a Orange cloth in very fine yellow printed dust jacket
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
MERRILL, James. Selected Poems. Chatto and Windus / The Hogarth Press, (London), 1961.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original cloth boards, dust jacket (after a design by Enid Marx). Tiny area of discoloration on front cover at top of spine, otherwise a very good copy in lightly dust-soiled and somewhat worn dust jacket. Tiny area of discoloration on front cover at top of spine, otherwise a very good copy in lightly dust-soiled and somewhat worn dust jacket First edition (for which there was no equivalent U.S. edition). Signed by Merrill on the title-page.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Merrill, James. Selected Poems. Chatto and Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1961.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 222 x145 mm), 63, [1] pages, in red cloth, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by James Merrill on the front end paper: "To John and Herbert with / Love from Jimmy / 1962." The recipients were John Bernard Myers, co-founder of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, and his companion Herbert Machiz, a theatrical director. This was the first volume of Merrill's verse to be published in the United Kingdom; there was no comparable U.S. edition of this volume. John Bernard Myers championed many New York poets of the 1950s and published early works by Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and many others, either in separate editions or through his poetry journal Semi-Colon. One of Merrill's early poems was included in an issue of this publication. A wonderful association. Signed copies are not often found in the market and important association copies such as this one are even more uncommon. SCARCE SIGNED. CONDITION: Upper board slightly splayed, foxing to top edge, light toning to pages, some soiling or staining to a few pages, especially to page 32, ink notation to rear end paper. The dust jacket shows light edge wear, some darkening to the top of the lower flap, and a small nick to the top of the lower panel where it meets the flap. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA, Hopewell, NJ, U.S.A.