Animae. by MERWIN, W.S - (1969).

San Francisco: Kayak Press. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. 31 pp.; decorative green wrappers; drawings by Lynn Schroeder. Moderate fading and tanning at edges. Very good condition .

San Francisco: Kayak, 1969. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Good. Schroeder, Lynn. 8vo. 31 pp. Wrappers sunned, stained and worn at edges, light soiling to page edges and margins, previous owner name on front blank. Ephemera.

(San Francisco: Kayak Books, 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Drawings by Lynn Schroeder. Green and white patterned wraps with multicolored paper text. Wrappers slightly sunned at extremities, corners lightly bumped, just about near fine. One of 1200 copies combined for both variants.

(San Francisco, California): Kayak, 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Lynn Schroeder. Variant issue in stapled green wrappers, printed in black. Top portion of wraps slightly sunned, light bumping at the crown and corners with small stain on the cover, very good. One of 1,200 copies.

(San Francisco: Kayak Books, 1969. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Drawings by Lynn Schroeder. Green and white patterned wraps with multi-colored paper text, priority unknown. Slight sunning at the extremities, else fine in wrappers. One of 1200 copies combined for both variants.

[San Francisco:: Kayak Books,, 1969].. One of 1200 copies.. original printed wrappers.. Fine.. 8vo,. With Drawings by Lynn Schroeder..

Kayak Books, San Francisco., 1969. First edition. Octavo. 31 pages. Illustrated with drawings by Lynn Schroeder. Wrappers. Twelve poems. One of 1200 copies.Covers a bit creased at the overlapping edges. Very good indeed.

Kayak Books, San Francisco, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Association copy, inscribed on the acknowledgment page (just after title page) to poet Bruce Berlind and his wife: "For Bruce and JoAnn, love from Bill, Nov 1996, Colgate." Bruce Berlind was an old friend of Merwin's, as they graduated from Princeton within a year of each other and both studied with John Berryman there. Berlind was a longtime English professor at Colgate and ran its visiting writer series. There's a good story about how Merwin and Hayden Carruth dined and drank wine together at Berlind's house while Carruth played hooky from the National Book Award ceremony. All hungover, Berlind and Merwin drove over to Carruth's place the next morning to tell him he had in fact won the award. Decorated cardboard wraps. Yellow paper pages interspersed artfully in the interior. Five drawings by Lynn Shroeder. Good to very good on account of wear/loss to spine and tail, and to the outer corner of the front wrap. Also a two-inch… Read More