BENT.
BENT.
Auction Closed
June 27, 03:32 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JAMES MERRILL
THE (DIBLOS) NOTEBOOK. NEW YORK: ATHENEUM, 1965
8vo (8 x 5 1/2 in.; 203 x 140 mm). Publisher's two-toned cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover in blind; some dust-soiling at edges. Original dust-jacket with photo by Janet Halverson; minor soiling.
PROVENANCE
Doris Sewell (presentation inscription) — Herbert Waide Hemphill (signature and bookplate)
LITERATURE
Hammer pp. 493; Hagstrom/Morgan A17
CATALOGUE NOTE
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed in red to Doris Sewell, "To Sewelly with love as always Jimmy. February 1965." Doris Sewell was married to Merrill's partner David Jackson. They separated in 1952, but remained friends and never divorced.