Inscribed by the author on the title page. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Small discolorations near foredge of ffep's. Text is unmarked. Dj lightly worn around edges with toning & small scratches in a mylar cover.

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Title: From the First Nine: Poems, 1946-1976
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Publication Date: 1982
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0689112807
ISBN 13: 9780689112805
Binding: hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author

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Book by Merrill, James Ingram

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16.ix.65
18 West 11th Street (house Exploded By 'weathermen' .. 1970)
About The Phoenix
After Greece
After The Fire
Amsterdam
Angel
Annie Hill's Grave
Another August
At A Texas Wishing-well
Banks Of A Stream Where Creatures Bathe
The Bequest
Between Us
The Black Mesa
The Black Swan
The Blue Eye
The Broken Bowl
The Broken Home
A Carpet Not Bought
The Catch-all
The Charioteer Of Delphi
Charles On Fire
Childlessness
Chimes For Yahya
Clearing The Title
The Cosmological Eye
Country Music
The Country Of A Thousand Years Of Peace
Crocheted Curtain
The Cruise
The Current
David's Night In Velies
Days Of 1935
Days Of 1964
Days Of 1971
A Dedication
The Doodler
Dream (escape From The Sculpture Museum) And Waking
Dream About Clothes
Economic Man
Electra: A Translation
The Envoys
A Fever
Five Old Favorites: 1. A Dream Of Old Vienna
Five Old Favorites: 2. The Midnight Snack
Five Old Favorites: 3. Sundown And Starlight
Five Old Favorites: 4. Event Without Patrticulars
Five Old Favorites: 5. The Dandelion Sermon
Fleche D'or
Flying From Byzantium
For Proust
The Friend Of The Fourth Decade
From A Notebook
From The Cupola
Getting Through
The Grape Cure
The Green Eye
Hotel De L'univers Et Portugal
Hourglass
Hourglass Ii
The House
In Monument Valley
In Nine Sleep Valley
In The Hall Of Mirrors
The Kimono
Komboli (the Greek 'worry-beads')
Kostas Tympakianakis
Laboratory Poem
Last Words
'light Of The Street, Darkness Of Your Own House'
Little Fanfare For Felix Magowan
The Locusts
Log
Lorelei
Lost In Translation; For Richard Howard
The Lovers
Maisie
Mandala
Manos Karastefanis
Marsyas
Master And Man
Matinees
Mckane's Falls
Medusa
Mirror
Mornings In A New House
A Narrow Escape
Nightgown
Nike
The Octopus
Olive Grove
Orfeo
Ouzo For Robin
The Pardoner's Tale
The Parrot Fish
Part Of The Vigil
The Peacock
The Perfume
Periwinkles
Pieces Of History
Poem Of Summer's End
Pola Diva (after Christian Ayoub)
The Power Station
Prism (a Paperweight)
Remora
A Renewal
River Poem
Roger Clay's Proposal
The Romance Language
Salome
Scenes Of Childhood
The Smile
Some Negatives: X. At The Chateau
Stones
Strato In Plaster
The Summer People
Swimming By Night
Syrinx
A Tenancy
These Early Versions Of Desire
The Thousand And Second Night
Three Chores: 1. Water Boiling
Three Chores: 2. Night Laundry
Three Chores: 3. Italian Lesson
Time
To A Butterfly
To My Greek
Transfigured Bird
Under Libra: Weights And Measures
Up And Down: 1. Snow King Chair Lift
Up And Down: 2. The Emerald
An Urban Convalescence
Variations: The Air Is Sweetest That A Thistle Guards
Variations: White Stag, Black Bear
Verse For Urania
The Victor Dog
Violent Pastoral
A Vision Of The Garden
Voices From The Other World
Watching The Dance: 1. Balanchine's
Watching The Dance: 2. Discotheque
The Water Hyacinth
The Will
Willow
Willowware Cup
Words For Maria
The World And The Child
Yannina
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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