Merrill James Edited (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. DJ has light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good Condition hard cover 509 pages no jacket.

1st North Point paperback edition. 202 pages. Light foxing along top edge. otherwise a clean very good trade paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Paperback. xvi, 202p., introduction, foreword, very good first edition trade paperback in green pictorial wraps. On writing and writers, interviews,short fiction etc.

Paperback. xvi, 298p., introduction, notes, short chronology, suggested reading, fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

First edition, first printing Fine and bright glossy stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Trifle age tone. Gift quality.

First edition Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout. A sharp copy.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Trade Paperback Edition. MONUMENTAL: COLLECTIBLE: NEW: First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. November 2002) First Printing: An IMPECCABLE Copy * 6.0" x 9.14" x 1.88", 1.20 kg, xx+885 (905) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication & virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened & his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book, his urbanity & wit, his intriguing images & paradoxes, shone w/ a rare brilliance. As he once told an interviewer, he "looked for English in its billiard-table sense—words that have been set spinning against their own gravity." But beneath their surface glamor, his poems were driven by an audacious imagination that continually sought to deepen & refine our perspectives on experience. Among other roles, he was one of the supreme love poets of the 20th century. In delicate lyric or complex narrative, this book abounds w/ what he once called his "chronicles of love & loss." Like Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising & compelling ways—ways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler spoke for others when she wrote of Merrill, "The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively wait for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life . . . He has become one of our indispensable poets." This book brings together a remarkable body of work in an authoritative edition. From Merrill's privately printed book, "The Black Swan", published in 1946, to his posthumous collection, "A Scattering of Salts", which appeared in 1995, all of the poems he published are included, except for juvenalia and his epic, "The Changing Light at Sandover". In addition, 21 of his translations (from Apollinaire, Montale, & Cavafy, among others) & 44 of his previously uncollected poems (including those written in the last year of his life) are gathered here for the first time. "Collected Poems" was the first volume in a series that presents all of James Merrill's work—his novels & plays, & his collected prose. Together, these volumes testify to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late 20th century & will continue to inspire readers & writers for years to come. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The lyrics in Merrill's "Collected Poems" ought to last as long as people still care about poetry . . . poetry as alive as Merrill's is why people care." -David Gates, Newsweek "Gigantic & ravishing. What this new volume provides, not w/o a small shock even to those familiar w/ Merrill, is the size & scope of his accomplishment: Monumental" -Daniel Mendelsohn, NYTBR * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates or as quoted on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 221 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "With Kindest Regards records the extraordinary friendship between the American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and his most significant patron, Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919). By the time the industrialist from Detroit met the artist in 1890, Whistler was as notorious for his irascibility as he was famous for his artistic productions. Freer, however, would always maintain that he had never met a truer, nobler man. Their correspondence reveals a warmth and generosity in Whistler that has gone largely unobserved. The eighty-nine letters, telegrams, cablegrams, and calling cards chronicle the growth of Freer's Whistler collection, the largest and most important in the world. Linda Merrill sets the correspondence in context and traces the contacts between the two men during their long acquaintance. She observes how the previously unpublished letters cast new light on Freer's aesthetic education and expand the history of Whistler's later years. Even Freer's outstanding collection of Asian art began with the keen interest in Japanese art he shared with Whistler. Illustrated with works from the Freer collection and vintage photographs from the Freer Gallery Archives, With Kindest Regards makes important original documents accessible for the first time, augments the legends of Whistler's personality, and reveals the foundation of Charles Freer's legacy to the United States." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (As Issued). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Limited Edition; one of 1000 copies. Illustrations. A Very Good, clean copy in quarter cloth and purple paper-covered boards with a light bump to the top front board. 6.25 x 9.25 in., vi + 103pp. Internally clean with b/w photos throughout. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, First printing 1989. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread in AS NEW condition. "This book takes the biographical work done on Bishop and Lowell to a new, much deeper level. With a masterly use of sources no one earlier had had access to, genuine insight and generosity of spirit, Kalstone (with the superb help of Robert Hemenway) has left us a precious book."---Frank Bidart "BECOMING A POET is not only a sympathetic and insightful portrait of one of America's greatest poets, it is a fine introduction to poetry---elegant and remarkably clear even when dealing with the difficult and often elusive matters of how poems work and how they work on each other."---Mark Strand. Pristine copy w/sharp corners & crisp edges, square & tight binding; quite attractive & collectible.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated from photographs. Light spotting on the boards, else near fine. Limited to 1000 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. MONUMENTAL: LANDMARK: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. March 3, 2001) Third Printing (April 2001): NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW black linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE mauve card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets, PRISTINE interior printed in Fournier w/ ELEGANT clarity on excellent unblemished archival paper * 6.12" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.38 kg, xx+888 (908) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: The publication of James Merrill's "Collected Poems" is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication & virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened & his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book, his urbanity & wit, his intriguing images & paradoxes, shone w/ a rare brilliance. As he once told an interviewer, he "looked for English in its billiard-table sense—words that have been set spinning against their own gravity." But beneath their surface glamor, his poems were driven by an audacious imagination that continually sought to deepen & refine our perspectives on experience. Among other roles, he was one of the supreme love poets of the 20th century. In delicate lyric or complex narrative, this book abounds w/ what he once called his "chronicles of love & loss." Like Wallace Stevens & W.H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising & compelling ways—ways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler spoke for others when she wrote of Merrill, "The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively wait for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life . . . He has become one of our indispensable poets." This book brings together a remarkable body of work in an authoritative edition. From Merrill's privately printed book, "The Black Swan", published in 1946, to his posthumous collection, "A Scattering of Salts", which appeared in 1995, all of the poems he published are included, except for juvenalia and his epic, "The Changing Light at Sandover". In addition, 21 of his translations (from Apollinaire, Montale, & Cavafy, among others) & 44 of his previously uncollected poems (including those written in the last year of his life) are gathered here for the first time. "Collected Poems" was the first volume in a series that presents all of James Merrill's work—his novels & plays, & his collected prose. Together, these volumes testify to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late 20th century & will continue to inspire readers & writers for years to come. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The lyrics in Merrill's "Collected Poems" ought to last as long as people still care about poetry . . . poetry as alive as Merrill's is why people care." -David Gates, Newsweek "Gigantic & ravishing. What this new volume provides, not w/o a small shock even to those familiar w/ Merrill, is the size & scope of his accomplishment: Monumental" -Daniel Mendelsohn, NYTBR * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee of $14.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted below-cost rates or as quoted on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Date on title page. Fine hardback in fine dust jacket (U. S. A. $40.00 Canada $60.00). Only trivial, if any signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxvi, 403 pp. LCC: 33552.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue. 179pp. Pages slightly age-toned, spine with reader's creases, wrappers lightly worn, very good. Contributions by W.H. Auden, Louise Bogan, Philip Booth, Padraic Colum, Galway Kinnell, James Merrill, Marianne Moore, Howard Moss, Theodore Roethke, May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Wallace Stevens, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams and many more. …

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Edited in collaboration with Anne Pippin Burnett, Robin Magowan and Joseph Plaskett. Oblong octavo. 59pp. Illustrated. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Fine. A tribute to American artist David Hill, who died in 1977; includes many tributes, selected artwork and writing by Hill, and James Merrill's "A Conversation with David Hill: 18.ix.1977".…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Number 166, May-August, 1958. James Merrill served as Editorial Assistant for this issue, as well as a contributor. Printed wrappers. Spine and edge of wraps moderately toned, faint stain in the margin of two pages (not affecting text), very good. Contains the first appearance of James Merrill's (nine-page) review "The Relic, Promises and Poems", and contributions by Robert Bass, Jane Cooper, Barbara Deming, Richard Eberhart, Claude Fredericks, Francis Golffing, Barbara Howes, and more.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Octavos. Perfectbound in printed wrappers. Near fine with typical wear to the yapped edges, a few light rub spots, and dampstain along the rear edge. The second issue of this twice-a-year literary journal published by Coburn Britton and featuring Edward Dahlberg, Margaret Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Renaud Charles Bruce, John Hollander, Edgar Kaufman, James Merrill, Richard H.R. Smithies, Parker Tyler, Glenway Wescott, and Charles Wuorinen. …

First edition, first printing New and bright in like pictorial dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. Nicely illustrated with vintage photographs. Gift quality all around.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. All in fair to good condition. Contributors include Randall Jarrell, Archibald Macleish, Stephen Spender. All issues have some wear and age toning/sunning. Vol. 72, No. 3, June. Previous owner's name in ink on front cover. Front cover partly separated. Staining, about 1 inch square to the bottom of the back cover and goes through to the next couple of leaves. Corners bumped/ Vol. 72, No.6, Sept Previous owner's name in ink on first leafe. A long shallow crease to most leaves. Vol. 73, No. 1, Oct Crease to front cover, about 2 inches. Some staining and light creasing to covers. Corners bumped. Vol. 73, No. 3, Dec. Corners bumped.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. First Evergreen Edition 1960. The book is in good condition, with some visible wear on the cover, including minor creases and edge wear. The binding remains intact, and the pages are clean and free of inscriptions or library markings, ensuring a preserved reading experience. There is no dust jacket, as is typical for trade paperbacks. unknown (no dust jacket visible).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 329pp. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with modest general wear. Compliments of both the author and press with two small cards laid in, the latter Inscribed by coeditor David Lehman to editor Harry Ford (who was a friend and editor of James Merrill's). Essays on Merrill's work with contributions by J. D. McClatchy, D. Kalstone, S. Yenser, David Jackson, and others.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 84pp. Check marks on rear wrapper and page 58, a couple of pages dog-eared, near fine. Poetry by Ann E. Michael, James P. Lenfestey, Jim Daniels, Jim Freeman, Livio Farallo, Rochelle Ratner, Jeanne Murray Walker, Julie Lechevsky, Richard Bank, April Linder, Kelley Jean White, Bruce Dethlefsen, Gina Conti, Peter Krok, Alan Catlin, Marilyn Bates, Robert L. Penick, B.Z. Niditch, Gayle Elen Harvey, Dennis Harrell, Robin Merrill, Joanne Lowery, Cathryn Cofell, Sandy Supowit, Len Roberts, Dennis Donaghy, Margaret A. Robinson, John Grey, Robin Becker, Ann A. Boger, Jenny Browne, Albert Huffstickler.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Contains pages 281-342pp. Pictorial lavender wrappers. Spine lightly sunned, near fine. Contributions by James Merrill, John Ciardi, Muriel Rukeyser, Allen Kanfer, E.G. Burrows, Robert Beum, Carl Bode, May Swenson, Rosalind Levine, Turner Cassity, Stephen Berg, Alan Neame, Kenneth Burke, Robert Duncan, Parker Tyler, and Don Geiger. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 1. Tall octavo. iv, 63, [1 ad] pp. Printed wrappers over stapled textblock. Wrappers soiled and staples oxidized, very good and sound. Briefly Inscribed by contributor Harold Briggs (the poem "The Only Universal is Frustration") on the front cover. Also prints a relatively appearance by James Merrill (the poems "O Soft Embalmer" and "Morning in the Grand Style"), a poem each by E.E. Cummings and Pulitzer Prize-winner Marya Zaturenska, and the "long short story" "Everyone's Colored" by Kenyon College philosophy professor Walter Elder, among other material. Signed.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. All in fair to good condition. All issues have some wear and age toning/sunning. Some have previous owner's name in ink on front cover. A couple have obvious staining.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Soft cover. 22x14cm. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref D752. Transatlantic Review. Journal. Number 32. Summer 1969. Tenth Anniversary Issue. Interviews: Jules Feiffer; John Lahr; John Hopkins. Contributors: John Updike; Anthony Burgess; William Trevor; Ted Hughes; C. Day Lewis; Robert Graves, Muriel Rukeyser, Julia Trevelyan Oman, James Merrill. Drawings by Peter Farmer (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. xiii, 104pp. Fine in a very good dust jacket with white and brown stains, spine toned with dampstain, publisher sticker pricing information affixed to rear flap. Contains poems by Tennessee Williams, James Merrill, A. Rich, Richard Wilbur, and more. Inscribed by Robert Thomas Moore on the front fly. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. T-MERRILL; Freer, Charles Lang; Whistler, James McNeill (edited By Merrill, Linda) With Kindest Regards: The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler 1890 - 1903.