Water Street marks a turning point in James Merrill's writing; the book is "local and particular: it calls attention to where, and by implication how, the poet is living." Included here are the covers of two 1962 editions, with inscriptions and an…
Typescript draft of reading version of a passage ofWillie Masters' Lonesome Wife.Contains alternate draft of first page, introductory text, multiple color type and light autograph corrections.
Extract from the author's L'Innommable, which comprises the entire issue. Beckett was infuriated that a section of the text had been removed by the Editorial Committee without his knowledge just prior to publication.
An extract from Molloyand an extract from Malone meurt.The translation, by Beckett, published before the French originals, show variants from the definitive texts.