Port Mungo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 8vo. 241, [6] pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, signed by McGrath on the title, and additionally inscribed by him on the title.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 8vo. 241, [6] pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, signed by McGrath on the title, and additionally inscribed by him on the title.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Comprising: 29 typed letters signed, 5 typed postcards signed, and 2 autograph postcards signed, all from McGuane to Oppenheimer, and one typed letter signed (carbon copy, with holograph note) from McGuane to William B. Decker (senior editor at Dial Press); written from Palo Alto (and.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original red, blue and patterned cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition of The New Yorker author's first full-length book. The dedication copy, inscribed beneath the printed dedication "For Maeve" (his wife Maeve Brennan): "with love from Mac.".....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 8vo. 542 pages. Original cloth-backed boards; pictorial dust jacket designed by George Corsillo. A near-fine remaindered copy with stamp on lower sheet edges, original price sticker on front panel, modest shelfwear and ends of spine, generally clean and bright. FIRST EDITION, first printing.
Moorehead, MN: Moorehead State University, 1996. 8vo (21cm). [4], 34 pages. Grey wrappers with a photograph by Wayne Gudmundson, stapled. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title to the poet John Allman: "For Jack – Among fields of amber grain, these crop circles recently found yesterday!.....
Pittsburgh and London: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1976. 8vo. 66 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, paperback issue, of the poet's first book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Meek to the poet John Allman and his wife Eileen on the half-title: "For Jack and Eileen, with love, Jay. June 15, 1976)," below which.....
Pittsburg, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994. 8vo. 63 pages. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Meek to the poet John Allman and his wife Eileen on the half-title: "January 24, 1994. To Jack and Eileen – These travelogues, for all the years our lives have.....
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1974. 8vo. [32] pp. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. Slightest shelfwear to jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 39 of 100 copies printed and bound by Graham Mackintosh and signed by Meltzer from an edition of 1,350.
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1973. 8vo. [16] pp. Sewn in original plain wrappers. Nearly fine with some faint smudging on covers. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies signed by Meltzer. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh.
San Francisco: Printed by Henry Nash for His Friends, 1926. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Folio (18 x 13 1/2 inches), folded sheet, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed. First edition of this tribute to George Sterling by Mencken, one of 300 copies printed; with a pictorial border by William Wilke. The.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Three volumes, 8vo. Original brown cloth, blocked in black, spines gilt-lettered; in a brown half-morocco slipcase. First English edition, preceded by a New York piracy of the unfinished novel as it appeared in the 'Fortnightly Review' from September to December.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1891. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Three volumes, 8vo. Original smooth light coffee-colored cloth, blocked in black and blind, spines gilt-lettered, untrimmed; in a brown half-morocco slipcase (spine dried). First edition, in a rare variant binding (the book is ubiquitous in royal blue cloth). See Sadleir.....
New York: Nadja, [1984]. 8vo. 12 pages. Laced in original blue printed boards, with the publisher's mailing envelope. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 47 of 150 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 176. This is the fifteenth publication of the Nadja press. Bronze originally appeared in Grand Street.....
New York: Atheneum, 1982. 8vo. 362, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. A very good copy with two short tears and one small crease to jacket. FIRST EDITION. Hagstrom & Morgan A44a1.
Brooklyn: Jordan Davies, [1980]. 8vo. 10 pages. Original salmon printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 56 of 200 copies signed by Merrill.
New York: Atheneum, 1985. 8vo. 87, [1] pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket lightly curled at edges, and with a few blind impressions on front panel, but a bright copy. FIRST EDITION, simultaneously issued in paperback. Hagstrom & Morgan A62a.
Deerfield, MA and Dublin: The Deerfield Press and The Gallery Press, 1982. 8vo. [12] pages. Illustrations by Timothy Engelland. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 300 copies signed by Merrill and hand-colored by the illustrator.
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1982. 8vo. 19, [1] pp. Sewn in original wrappers, printed label on cover. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 57 of 300 copies signed by Merrill from an edition of 326.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 8vo. 339 pages. Original blue cloth; dust jacket. First edition. Presentation copy, signed by Merrill on the title-page (crossing out his printed name) and inscribed: "For Joe McCrindle generous friend of the Yale Review with the editor's compliments and every good wish from the.....
London: Chatto and Windus; The Hogarth Press, [1972]. 8vo. 47pp. Original cloth; dust jacket. Fine in a clipped jacket. FIRST EDITION. Hagstrom & Morgan A27a.
Paris: Gallimard, 1954. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, green lettering-piece on spine. Third edition. JAMES MERRILL'S COPY, signed by him on the front flyleaf and dated 1958. This copy was later owned by Claude Fredericks (1923-2013), an American poet, playwright, printer, writer, and teacher with whom Merrill had a......
New York: Magowan Family Trust, 1991. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 61 pages. Quarter cloth. First Edition. "Celebrating Hellen Merrill's birthday. Hellen was James Merrill's mother and the second wife of the founder of the brokerage firm of Merrill, Lynch. With contributions by James & Charles Merrill, Doris Magowan, Betty Potts.....
Garden City: 1934. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo . O riginal black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in "shadowy" green. First edition. Presentation copy to the dedicatee-who-should-have-been, inscribed by the author in purple ink on the verso of the half-title: "To my dear friend Arthur G. Learned who heartens.....
New York: Atheneum, 1983. 8vo. 83, [1] pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
New York: New Directions, 1987. 8vo. 184 pp. Original cloth; dust jacket with an image of 'Gyrostasis' by Robert Smithson. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION. An early anthology of the so-called Language Poets, by Sun & Moon Press founder and poet Douglas Messerli.