MERRILL, JAMES. Jim's Book. 8vo, original red cloth-backed grey boards, front board gilt-lettered, top edge red, moderate tanning to top- and fore-edges of front and rear boards; custom cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. First edition of the author's first book, intimately inscribed: "To Edward, without-whom-nothing, with the deepest affection of his roommate, the author, and may the wrath of God descend upon him if he so much as mentions this gift to any other person - James Ingram Merrill. 10 June 1945 New York City." New York: Privately printed, 1942