Merrill, James
For James Merrill; A Birthday Tribute
Jordan Davies, (New York): 1986
- $350
8vo, unpag.; pale blue wrappers with printed label. A gathering of poems and written tributes by Merrill's friends, including Frank Bidart, Frederick Buechner, Alfred Corn, Claude Fredericks, Kimon Friar, Rachel Hadas, Anthony Hecht, John Hollander, Richard Howard, Alison Lurie, Mary McCarthy, J.D McClatchy, W.S. Merwin, Edmund White, Richard Wilbur, and others, with a frontispiece from a collage by Debora Greger. This copy inscribed and signed by Merrill on the fly title.
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