Jim's Book. A Collection of Poems and Short Stories

by James Merrill

$6,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition of the author’s first book. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Original gray boards, purple cloth spine, upper cover lettered in gilt. Spine slightly sunned, with a few stray marks to the upper portions of boards, usual toning of the endsheets, but a very good copy. Hagstrom A1. Item #259362 First edition of the author's first book, privately printed unbeknownst to him, by his father, when Merrill was sixteen

• Binding: Hardcover

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