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Selections from For James Merrill: A Birthday Tribute, a 60th birthday present from J. D. McClatchy with tributes from friends, including Anthony Hecht, Robin Magowan, John Hollander, Mary McCarthy, Tony Parigory and Bernard de Zogheb. Scans feature…

An unmarked proof copy from the text's original publisher, Faber and Faber.

Autograph draft of George Mills by Stanley Elkin written in a Washington University examination book. This represents only one of 27 additional blue books containing George Mills.

First edition dust jacket for Habitations of the Word by William H. Gass, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

Autograph draft of Halloween Play by Mona Van Duyn.

English and French on opposite pages. Both the orignal English text and the French translation are by author Samuel Beckett.

Typescript and autograph drafts with corrections of Helmets by James Dickey.

This English translation of Imagination morte imaginez was prepared shortly after the original French version.

This typescript features diagrams which correspond to corrections in the text, illustrating the importance Beckett placed on this piece's geometry.

Dust jackets for various English and foreign language editions of In the Heart and the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass.