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Late Settings: Poems [Inscribed and Signed]
New York: Atheneum, 1985. Fine / Near Fine. Item #36937
ISBN: 0689115725
New York: Atheneum, 1985. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine and purple topstain, in unclipped dust jacket; viii,87pp. Jacket spine panel very slightly toned, else a Fine example. Inscribed and signed on half title page, "With love to John early & late - Jimmy / v.85."
Previous bookseller's note states that this was inscribed to John Bernard Myers (1920-1987), the founder of the Tibor de Nagy gallery who hosted the young poet at his many lavish parties and who published one of Merrill's early poems in an issue of "Semi-Colon" in the 1950s.
Price: $200.00