JAMES MERRILL | FROM THE FIRST NINE. POEMS 1946–1976. NEW YORK: ATHENEUM, 1982

JAMES MERRILL

FROM THE FIRST NINE. POEMS 1946–1976. NEW YORK: ATHENEUM, 1982

8vo (9 x 5 3/4 in.; 228 x 146 mm). Publisher's ivory buckram, spine lettered in red, upper cover in blind, top edges stained blue. Original dust-jacket; small nick at foot of spine. 

PROVENANCE

Peter Hooten

LITERATURE

Hagstrom/Morgan A44

CATALOGUE NOTE

First edition. Laid in is a slip of paper inscribed in red to Peter Hooten, "far far away, Peter, ever affectionately, Jimmy. March 1965 [i.e., 1985?]."