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.