Scripts Pageant by Merrill James: Signed (26 results)
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Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.Daniel Montemarano
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition softbound. SIGNED by author on title page. 2" clear tape covering closed tear on front cover. Also includes laid-in the original 1980 review from Sunday New York Times Book Review. Signed by Author.
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Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.Books From California
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. Stated first edition.
More imagesPublished by Atheneum 1980
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Seller: Nightshade Booksellers, IOBA member, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.Nightshade Booksellers, IOBA member
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing stated. Inscribed by Merrill on the title page in year of publication. A fine copy in a near fine mylar protected DJ with very light edge wear on the top edge. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. Mo…re available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #611. Inscribed by Author(s).
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Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Signed. Signed by author. Second printing, same year. DJ moderately edgeworn and toned at edges. Boards clean and square, spine lettering clean and bright. Pages clean. Binding secure.
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Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. Browning to page edges. Signed on the title page. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 235 pages. Another terrific collection of poems. A fine and tight copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the top of the spine. Signed by Merrill on the title page. Signed.
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Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo. Fine in fine DJ. 235 pages. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Arches Bookhouse
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Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on title: 'To Stathis with - affection and admiration -'. Stathis Orphanos was a photographer, half of the Los Angeles-based fine-press publishing duo Sylvester and Orphanos, and a personal friend of James… Merrill. First Printing. Emerald cloth, silver-gilt spine lettering blindstamped lettering to front cover, sage endpapers, orange topstain. Some small specks to top edge, otherwise exceedingly crisp and clean. Dust jacket has small tear to rear cover, otherwise bright and sharp. Signed.
More imagesPublished by Atheneum, New York 1980
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Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Very Good+ binding. Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [12], 235, [2] pp. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Merrill on the title page. In publisher's binding with dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy; a bit of offsetting to the front endpaper; contents clean; dust jacket has just a bit of we…ar to the extremities but is quite sharp all in all.
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Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.Shelley and Son Books (IOBA)
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Very Good +. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, 1982. James Merrill was a leading twentieth century poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Charles Merrill was his father, husband of Hellen Merrill and founder of the investment firm of Merrill Lynch. This copy is signed on the half title page. 560pp. CONDIT…ION: Hardbound navy cloth boards, blind stamped title and author's initials on front, red title on spine. Normal shelf wear top and bottom edges. Pictorial fly leaves. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket illustrated with front photograph; reviews of several poems on back. Jacket is near fine. protected by mylar cover. Signed by Author.
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Seller: Sunny Day Books, Mayer, AZ, U.S.A.Sunny Day Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1 book. Signed and inscribed by DJ and JM. A nice copy. Text in clean/unmarked condition. DJ shows wear and has some minor tears. Binding is tight. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available. Signed by Other.
Published by Atheneum, New York 1980
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Foxing on page edges and first and last few pages, thus very good in about fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Merrill.
More imagesPublished by Atheneum, New York 1980
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Merrill.
Published by New York: Atheneum, 1980. 1980
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- First Edition
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Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A.
Contact seller1-star sellerOctavo. Cloth. Fine in lightly edgeworn very good d.j. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the title-page.
Published by Atheneum, New York 1980
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- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Merrill.
More imagesPublished by Atheneum, New York 1980
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Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.The Old Mill Bookshop
Contact seller2-star seller1 vols. 8vo. Condition: Original wrappers. Fine copy. First edition, issue in wrappers. First edition, issue in wrappers. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by Merrill on the title page to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop. Hagstrom A39b2. Hagstrom A39b2. Signed.
Published by Atheneum, New York 1980
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Signed by the poet. The third volume in this monumental narrative poem.
More imagesPublished by Alfred K Knopf, New York 1992
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Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.Old New York Book Shop, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Knopf Edition. 560p octavo, A fine copy in a fine dust jacket inscribed by Merrill to John Markham a book rep from Random House; laid in is a premotional printed leaf from the publisher. Foxed along the foredge. The book was initially published by Atheneum in 1982.
More imagesPublished by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1992
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Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Very Good+ binding. Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 560, [6] pp. First edition, thus; signed by Merrill on the title page. As issued, in cloth with dust jacket; lacking the errata slip. A bright, fresh copy with limited wear and just a bit of spotting to the top edge; jacket shows trivial shelf rubbin…g and is now protected with a mylar cover. A very nice copy of the Knopf reissue of this National Book Critics Circle Award winning epic poem.
Published by Various Publishers 1980-1986 1980
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Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.Raptis Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCollection of six first editions of the works of James Merrill; from the library of American playwright Michael Feingold. Octavo, six volumes, original cloth and wrappers, the collection includes: Stated first edition of 'Scripts for the Pageant' [New York: Atheneum, 1980]; Stated first edition of 'From the First Nine: Poems 194…6-1976' [New York: Atheneum, 1982]; Stated first edition of 'The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of The Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant, and a new coda, The Higher Keys' [New York: Atheneum. 1982]; Stated first edition of 'Late Settings: Poems' [New York: Atheneum, 1985]; First edition of 'Recitative: Prose' [San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986]; Stated first edition of 'A Different Person: A Memoir' [New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, illustrated with photographs]. Association copies, each volume inscribed by the author on the title page to American critic, playwright, and translator Michael Feingold. All in very good condition with the exception of 'The Changing Light at Sandover' which is in good condition. American poet James Ingram Merrill's poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover (published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980), which dominated his later career. His first book of poetry, First Poems, contains a selection of his earliest poems, most of which first appeared in The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, and Quarterly Review of Literature including: The Black Swan, The Broken Bowl, Hour-Glass, and The Drowning Poet.
More imagesPublished by Atheneum, New York 1982
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Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Willow Street, PA, U.S.A.Fine Editions Ltd
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing of Merrill's long dramatic sequence with voices, collected here in a single volume for the first time. Royal 8vo (237 x 145mm): [8],560,[4]pp, with errata slip laid in. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, upper cover with author's monogram a…nd title in blind, spine lettered in copper, photographic end papers, top edge stained scarlet, pictorial dust jacket priced $25. Signed by Merrill (without inscription) at the half title and dated 1993. Virtually pristine, tight, square and bright: a superlative, unread example. Merrill's masterpiece (Mirabell won the National Book Award for Poetry, in 1978), a "postmodern apocalyptic epic" originally published in three volumes, from 1976 to 1980, then in this single-volume edition with a coda. With his partner, David Jackson, Merrill spent more than 20 years transcribing supernatural communications during séances using a Ouija board. He published his first Ouija board narrative cycle in 1976, with a poem for each letter of the alphabet, calling it The Book of Ephraim, which became the first part of this poetic trilogy. Ephraim is a control spirit who allows Merrill and Jackson to communicate with friends and family members who have passed on as well as with famous poets, including Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, and W. H. Auden. The second part of the trilogy, Mirabell: Books of Number (1978), describes a dualistic universe in which godlike forces of good and evil contend; "Mirabell" is based on opposition and the tension opposites create. Scripts for the Pageant, the third part, focuses on attraction of opposites to stress how order can be brought from chaos. Scripts for the Pageant, the longest and most dazzling of the three volumes, covers such diverse topics as the writing of poetry, threat of nuclear war, destruction of the environment, death and reincarnation, and the role of the arts in a technological world. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Published by Atheneum, New York 1980
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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Large octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth, orange topstain, silver-grey pictorial dust jacket by Stephen Marchesi; [12],235pp. Top and fore-edge of textblock foxed, else Fine. Signed by the author on title page. Third and last volume of the author's narrative poem begun with "The Book of Ephraim" (Divine Comedies…) and Mirabell. Signed.
Published by Antheneum, New York 1982
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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. Erratum slip laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in metallic red on spine and blind embossed to front cover; red topstain; photographic endpapers; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-560,[6]pp. Signed by auhtor on half-title page. Designed by Harry Ford. Light sunning to spine ends and… board margins, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $25), lightly tanned, with 0.5" tear to upper front spine fold, crease to rear flap, and tiny tears and creases to upper spine panel; Very Good. First published as three separate volumes (1976-1980), this edition also includes a new coda, "The Higher Keys", and earned the National Book Critics Circle Award (1983). [85614]. Signed.
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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by James Merrill on half title, inscribed to former owner with initials "JM, DJ & Co" the DJ being David Jackson, Merrill's partner of 30 years who contributed to much of his later work like this book. [viii], 560, [4] pp. Original black cloth, front stamped i…n blind, spine lettered in red, red topstain. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, tiny tear near head, shelf worn. Erratum slip laid in. A collection of ouija-board channeled narrative poetry.
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
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[8], 560, [6] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First edition. First edition. [8], 560, [6] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the half-title to Robert Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop: "All love to Robert Wilson - from James Merrill & Co.". Black cloth. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Erratum slip laid in. Signed.
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
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[8], 560, [6] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First edition. First edition. [8], 560, [6] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on the half-title: "for -- & --/with the best wishes/from JM, DJ, & Co./(James Merrill)/Stonington!/viii.83" Black cloth. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Erratum slip laid in. Signed.
