JAMES MERRILL | THE (DIBLOS) NOTEBOOK. NEW YORK: ATHENEUM, 1965

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.