Add this copy of The Lice: Poems to cart. $12.81, good condition, Sold by Hoosac River Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Adams, MA, UNITED STATES.
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Good. The cover has a little edge wear. There is light foxing to the outer edge. There is a name, date and location written on second page, otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked.
Add this copy of The Lice to cart. $28.76, good condition, Sold by BookScene rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hull, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1968 by Atheneum.
Add this copy of The Lice to cart. $37.00, good condition, Sold by Black Cat Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sag Harbor, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Good. No Jacket. Book 1st UK edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Former library copy. Library ink stamp to page edges. Library bookplate to front free end page & evidence of pocket removal to rear end paper. Boards slightly bowed. Minor damp staining to boards, otherwise good.
Add this copy of The Lice to cart. $42.00, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Atheneum.
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Very Good. Third printing. 80pp. Extensive penned notations on rear fly and minor underlining on a preliminary page, wrappers lightly soiled with crease down center, very good. Poetry.
Add this copy of The Lice to cart. $132.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Atheneum.
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Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. 80pp. Lightly rubbed, near fine being fellow poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on front fly and pencil marginalia on a few pages. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in. Poetry.
Add this copy of The Lice to cart. $158.50, very good condition, Sold by Chaparral Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Atheneum.
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Very Good. Inscribed by the author (as William) on the title page to fellow poet Gene Frumkin. Minor wear & toning to wraps. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Pages toning with age, otherwise Text is unmarked.
Add this copy of The Lice: Poems to cart. $357.00, like new condition, Sold by Cleveland Book Company rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rocky River, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Fine in very good + jacket. Octavo, 80pp. A fine, crisp copy in the publisher's brown boards, with one light bump to the bottom edge. In a very good o rbetter dust jacket, which is wrinkled (most notably on the rear panel) from having been not-so-nicely scrunched into a clear jacket protector (now absent). SIGNED by Merwin on the half-title page: "W. S. Merwin, Maui Nov 2, 1994." Often cited as Merwin's best work; the UK edition is uncommon generally, particularly so signed.
Add this copy of The Lice to cart. $357.00, very good condition, Sold by Southampton Sag Harbor Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Atheneum.
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Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Atheneum, 1967. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf/edgewear and small scratch to back cover. Excellent scarce copy of this early Merwin poetry collection.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
Add this copy of The Lice to cart. $507.00, good condition, Sold by Solr Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincolnwood, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Hart-Davis.
Add this copy of The Lice to cart. $907.00, good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1967 by Atheneum.
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First edition. Inscribed by Merwin to former owner, signed and dated 2011. [x], 236 [4] pp. Original gray cloth with silver spine lettering. Near Fine with a bit of rubbing to spine lettering, slight pilling to cloth, former owner's name on front free endpaper, in Very Good+ spine-sunned, unclipped dust jacket, worn at tips. An important work by the Pulitzer-winning poet rooted in personal experience, uncommon signed. Jarold Ramsay writes of the book in a review, "What makes The Lice special in a decade of writing that will be remembered for its apocalyptic obsessions is an eerie sense of bearing witness to a world already in mid-apocalypse. These are not portentous poems so much as notations on the experience that it is all but over and done with, that we are merely 'the echo of the future, ' and 'tomorrow belongs to no one. '"
Since Merwin was national Poet Laureate our book group decided to read some of his work, choosing The Lice. The poems are obscure and filled with anger and despair. The best we could do without extensive background and critical research was find individual lines and images to appreciate. As a woman in her 60s I recall the 1960s well. Many of us were angry, frustrated, despairing, full of energy and life which we couldn't articulate very well. We read Hemingway and Faulkner and imagined ourselves to be intellectuals because they were obscure and we appreciated them. Now I don't care.
