The Seraglio de Merrill, James - 1987

NY: Knopf, 1957. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 312. A VG tight copy. Merrill's first novel.

1987 Advance reading copy of the Atheneum edition in yellow wraps (may differ from finished book) . Spine creased, closed tears on top and bottom of spine, soil/sunning, folds, and last name of owner (editor Aaron Asher) on cover, soil on edge, else text clean, binding tight .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957 First edition hardcover in dust jacket. Small bump to bottom of back board, light wear overall to boards, jacket is price clipped with one tiny tear, minor chipping and rubbing. Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Good+/Good. Chatto & Windus 288pp. Blue cloth binding. Browned endpapers and content pages. Owner's name front endpaper. DJ (not price-clipped) chipped with loss to spine ends and corners.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with the owner's name on front fly, cover edges lightly faded, corners bumped, lacking the dustwrapper.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Fine. Merrill, James. Seraglio. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. 1st edition. 312pp. 8vo. 1/4 cloth with paper covered boards. Book condition: Near Fine/Good. Light rubbing to extremities, slightly heavier at corners; closed tear at head of back panel, that has been ""repaired"" using scotch tape (?!). Dust Jacket Condition: .

New York: Atheneum, 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First edition thus, 1987 (originally published in 1957). Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 312 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket, minor discoloration to the page-edges, light soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, minor creasing or wear to the tips and edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.

New York: Atheneum, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition thus. New introduction by the author. Very good with foxing on the page edges in a near fine dust jacket with toning and faint spotting.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Spine slightly cocked, boards with with modest edgewear, very good in a spine-sunned good only dust jacket with 1" loss at crown, a long tear to rear flap fold, moderate wear to the extremities and a few creased tears that have been mended on the verso. Author's first novel, a comedy of manners of an aging wealthy American businessman and the many women in his life.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atheneum. Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. 1987. First Printing. Hardcover w/DJ. Review copy . 8vo., 312 pp. .