![Item #72621 A MASK FOR JANUS; [scarce first book, signed]. W. S. Merwin](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952. First edition. His first book, one of only 511 copies printed. Edited and foreword by W. H. Auden; issued in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. SIGNED BY MERWIN on the first blank page. 8vo blue-gray paper boards stamped in light blue; 67 pages..... Item #72621 More
New York: Atheneum, 1988. First edition. Scare hardcover issue. INSCRIBED BY MERWIN on half-title page, “Warm and good wishes to/ Jane and Walter Sullivan/ Sewanee/ 1/22/90/ William.” Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding members of The..... Item #72202 More
![Item #56072 HANDS; [Six poems]. Dorothea Tanning, Jennifer Melby, Anthony Hecht A. R. Ammons,...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/56072.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1601326268)
[New York]: Academy of American Poets, no-date [2004]. First edition. One of only 200 copies. This one being Anthony Hecht's. Includes six poems by the six poets who responded “WITH WILLING HANDS” to Tanning and Melby’s request to “PLEASE WRITE US A POEM”: “Weathering here” (Ammons), “Anthem” (Hecht), “Elementary Principles..... Item #56072 More