James Merrill

The Changing Light at Sandover: A Poem [Signed]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Very Good / Very Good. Item #26613
ISBN: 067941083X

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Knopf Edition. Signed by Merrill on half title with inscription "Greetings to Dorothy from JM and the entire company - 1993."

Octavo; [viii], 560pp. Blue dust jacket with $30.00 price intact; bound in purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Mustard topstain. Jacket edgeworn with a solid bump and crease across top part of front panel and toning to verso. Bit of a lean to boards, with bumping at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Two programs laid in from an April 1993 dramatic reading of "Voices from Sandover," featuring Merrill, Lean Doyle, Peter Hooten, and music by Roger Bourland, held at the Montpelier Room at the Library of Congress.

Merrill's apocalyptic epic, written with the aid of a Ouija board and his partner, David Jackson. This edition preceded by the individual collections of poems Divine Comedies (1976), Mirabell: Books of Number (1978), and Scripts for the Pageant (1980), and the first collected edition as The Changing Light Sandover published by Atheneum in 1982.

Price: $400.00