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Collected Novels and Plays
by Merrill, James
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About This Item
New York: Alfred Knopf, 2002. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Fine first edition, first printing in fine unclipped dustwrapper. 676 pp. Includes The Seraglio, The Diblos Notebook, The Bait and The Immortal Husband. Integral silk bookmark. A lovely copy. Not a remainder.
Synopsis
James Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. From The Black Swan (1946) through A Scattering of Salts (1995), he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well as The Changing Light at Sandover (1982). He also published two plays, The Immortal Husband (1956) and The Bait (1960); two novels, The Seraglio (1957, reissued 1987) and The (Diblos) Notebook (1965, reissued 1994); a book of essays, interviews, and reviews, Recitative (1986); and a memoir, A Different Person (1993). Over the years, he was the winner of numerous awards for his poetry, including two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser are James Merrill’s literary executors. J. D. McClatchy has published five volumes of poems and two collections of essays. He is the editor of The Yale Review and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Stephen Yenser has written three books of criticism (one about Merrill) and a volume of poems. He is a professor of English and the director of creative writing at UCLA. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Derringer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35256
- Title
- Collected Novels and Plays
- Author
- Merrill, James
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Alfred Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Literature by Poets,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
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