Merrill, James. Short Stories. Banyan Press, Pawlet, VT, 1954.

Price: US$675.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 10pp.; SC string-bound; multi-color designe w/white&blk.label; some rub w/chips,tp.corner; fold,bttm.corner; wear on edges w/clean,tight pgs. inscribed to H. Witter Bynner. ".of 210 numbered copies 60 are for sale & 150 are for friends of the poet & the printer; this is copy 173."

Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.

Merrill, James. Short Stories. Banyan Press, Pawlet, VT, 1954.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Signed by James Merrill, inscribed to Key West, Florida-based poet and publisher Kirby Congdon at the colophon: "Kirby Congdon from James Merrill - Thirty years late! Key West, 1985." [2], 10 pp. Marbled wrappers with printed cover label. Text printed on handmade paper with watermark of F. J. Head. No. 154 of 210 numbered copies; 60 for sale and 150 for friends of the poet and printer. Very Good+ with mild toning to wrappers; interior with scattered foxing, toning to edges. A early chapbook by the American poet with a nice association.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Merrill, James. Short Stories. The Banyan Press, Pawlet, Vt, 1954.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, copy no. 123 of 210 numbered copies. [4], 10 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Merrill's extremely scarce early collection, this copy inscribed to Robert Wilson (owner of the famous Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village) in 1964. Hagstrom & Morgan A5 Original marbled paper wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. Fine copy of this fragile and very scarce early book, in its original mailing envelope First edition, copy no. 123 of 210 numbered copies.

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.