Accession number
PML 178532
Creator
Merrill, James, 1926-1995, author.
Published
Worcester, Massachusetts : Metacom Press, 1982.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
"A version of this poem (minus the twelfth and twenty-ninth stanzas) appeared originally in the New Yorker; the expanded text is printed here for the first time"--Title page verso.
"This first edition ... is limited to 300 copies [in paper wrappers], numbered 1-300 ... and twenty-six hardbound copies, lettered A-Z, which are not for sale. All copies have been signed by the author"--Colophon.
Library's copy is lettered "O.S."
"This first edition ... is limited to 300 copies [in paper wrappers], numbered 1-300 ... and twenty-six hardbound copies, lettered A-Z, which are not for sale. All copies have been signed by the author"--Colophon.
Library's copy is lettered "O.S."
Description
19 pages ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's signature in ink below colophon as issued; author's inscription in red ink on half title: "with love & gratitude for Howard - who must pretend those extra stanzas aren't there! Ever -- Jimmy / xii.82."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Publisher's red wrappers with a printed label pasted to front.
Classification
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Department