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Verlag: Horace Liveright, NY, 1930
Anbieter: Librarium, East Chatham, NY, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Horace Liveright, NY, 1930, 1st edition, 2nd printing stated, 82 pages, b&w photo by Walker Evans frontispiece, 6-1/2"x 8-7/8", hardcover, dark blue cloth with blind embossed rule, gilt titles on front and spine, corners bumped and lightly worn, spine ends bumped and frayed, light edge wear along spine, spine titles dulled, text block deckle edged, no dust jacket, front paste down rough cut by binder at fore-edge, pages yellowing around edges, otherwise contents clean and tight, book very good- (VG-/no dj) 5707 [n0324LB].
Verlag: Limited Editions Club, New York, 1981
Anbieter: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Fine. 1st Thus. The Limited Edition Club's issue 739 of 2000 and signed by the artist, the photographer Richard Benson; one double-page spread and four single-page, printed in three tones. 9 x 12 inches, 96 pages. Design by Stephen Stinehour, text in 14 pt Monotype Dante with 4 pts of leading. Text composed and printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler; the photographs reproduced by The Meriden Gravure Company. The soft white smooth finish stock was specially produced for this edition at the Mohawk Mill. The endleaves have been printed in deep blue with a paste-paper design by Carrol J. Blinn. The binding is in silvery gray cloth imported from the Netherlands, stamped in dark blue on the shelfback and in blind on the front cover. This edition bound at The Stinehour Press in Stinehour, Vermont. The original edition was published in 1931 with Walker Evans providing the photography. Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899 and died in the Caribbean Sea in 1932 in a mysterious disappearence. He was one of America's greatest poet of the twentieth century. In his lifetime he published just three major books, White Buildings, The Bridge, and The Collected Poems. Hart Crane was a personal friend of Frederico Garcia Larco. Listed in Cyril Connolly's 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement. This a very fine copy in a custom blue pictoral slipcase. By the Artist.
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
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Hardcover. First US edition. Octavo, 82 pages. In Good minus condition in mylar sleeve. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Wear to spine caps and corners, blemishes. Text block has deckle edges. Name in ink on front flyleaf, light spotting to endpapers, intermittent spine breaks, light age-toning to paper. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece photograph by Walker Evans. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1373646. FP New Rockville Stock.
Verlag: Horace Liveright (1930), New York, 1930
Anbieter: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. Requires a signature at delivery, non-negotiable. Slight bumping and rubbing to cloth. Solid binding and clean text. B/w frontispiece photo by Walker Evans. Heavy offsetting to several pages (caused by old newspaper clippings, now removed). No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 82 pages.
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York City, 1930
Anbieter: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Walker Evans (illustrator). 1st Edition. Navy superfine covers have blind stamped border, gilt title. Boards show some bumping, edgewear, surface flaw on front cover. Corners are bumped. See photos. Spine has gilt text dimmed and is a little faded, with softened ends. Binding is secure. Pastedowns and feps are tanned, have some pencil marks, bookseller sticker. Frontispiece is a photograph by Walker Evans. Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some marginal toning. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block has untrimmed edges fore and foot.** PS2024.0321** 82 pages. 6 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches** A very good copy of the second collection of poems by American poet Hart Crane (1899-1932). The Bridge expressed Crane's ambition to synthesize America, and he intended it to be an uplifting counter to The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.** The bridge photograph facing the title page is by Walker Evans.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009926"**.
Verlag: New York: Horace Liveright, 1930
Anbieter: Ben Mazer Modern Firsts, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Faint rubbing to spine ends, else fine, A handsome copy with the gilt lettering still bright.
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, USA
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First American Edition. First American edition, revised from the Paris edition published by Black Sun Press. [iv], 82 pp. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth ruled in blind, with titles in gilt on spine and upper board. Near Fine with hardly any wear, pages slightly toned with age, lacking jacket. An attractive copy. An epic modernist poem inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge, the New York City landmark that's changed hands in the minds of people so many times it deserves to adorn today's cryptocurrency, if such a thing were possible. The photographic frontispiece is by the poet's buddy, Walker Evans.
Verlag: New York. Horace Liveright. 1930., 1930
Anbieter: Buch + Foto Marie-Luise Platow, Hilden, Deutschland
Leineneinband mit Goldbeschriftung. Illustrierter OSchutzumschlag. Mit dem oft fehlenden Schutzumschlag! 82 Seiten. Format 16,5 x 22,6 cm. Seitenschnitt unregelmäßig. Zustand: OSchutzumschlag mit Gebrauchs- und Alterspuren. Am unteren Rand fachgerecht restauriert. Kanten des OSchutzumschlags berieben. Insgesamt noch gut erhaltenes Exemplar. DJ with traces of wear and age. With some expert restauration to the DJ at the lower margin. Otherwise well preserved. Mit Gedichten von Hart Crane, u. a. , The Brooklyn Bridge, . Hart Crane, geb. 1899, beging 1930 Selbstmord. Umschlagillustration mit einem Foto von WALKER EVANS, der mit dieser Arbeit sein Debut als Fotograf hatte. 1. Auflage. Selten.
Verlag: New York Horace Liveright, 1930
Anbieter: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition, after the limited, Black Sun edition. Half-title; frontispiece with black & white Walker Evans photo of Brooklyn Bridge; title-page in red & black, 1930 copyright date on the reverse; page with a quotation from the Book of Job; Contents. 6 ¼ in. x 8 7/8 in., 82 pp. Printed on laid paper with watermark design and word: Utopian. Dark blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and front cover. Dark blue dust-jacket with black titling, Walker Evans photo on the front panel, reviews of White Buildings on the back panel. Two dollars fifty price present. The lower spine of the book shows some scattered mottling or spotting, with a few similar spots to the back cover. The dust-jacket which shows fading & edge wear, and some of the lower dust-jacket spine lacking, was laminated by a former owner for preservation. A few pages are unopened. Titles: Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge; Ave Maria; Powhatan s Daughter: The Harbor Dawn, Van Winkle, The River, The Dance, Indiana; Cutty Sark; Cape Hatteras; Three Songs: Southern Cross, National Winter Garden, Virginia; Quaker Hill; The Tunnel; Atlantis. Schwartz & Schweik A 3.1 p. 20.
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Dark blue cloth,fine in lightly chipped, dust jacket, the frontispiece and jacket illustration are from a photograph of Brooklyn Bridge by Walker Evans. This second edition (first American and first trade edition contains many corrections and revisions. Schwartz and Schweik A 3.1. Second edition (after the deluxe Black Sun Press edition).
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American edition (preceded by the very limited French edition). Photograph by Walker Evans. Faint offsetting to the front fly, else fine in a good dustwrapper with some restoration and that has been slightly misprinted by the publisher. One of the highspots of 20th Century poetry. *Connolly 100*.
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
Second edition. Dark blue cloth, fine in near- fine dust jacket, jacket spine very slightly faded. The frontispiece and jacket illustration are from a photograph of Brooklyn Bridge by Walker Evans. This second edition (folloing the Black Sun Press limited edition (contains many corrections and revisions. Schwartz and Schweik A 3.1.
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
First American edition. Photographic frontispiece by Walker Evans. Thin tall 8vo, dark blue smooth cloth boards stamped in gilt at spine and front cover. Very good copy. 82pp. With Walker Evans's famous photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge frontispiece signed by Evans under the photograph, and an original print of the Evans portrait of Crane, used in Liveright's publicity for "The Bridge" mounted to the half-title. The copy is also inscribed on the front free end paper to Crane scholar John H. Birss from Grace Hart Crane, mother of the author, dated August 6, 1934. Additionally, tipped in on the blank leaf is a Christmas card from Grace Hart Crane to John H. Birss, with a long note to Birss, signed by her [1936], two newspaper cuttings referring to Crane, a t.l.s. from Samuel Loveman, who was holding this book for Birss, and a carbon copy letter from Birss to Loveman, looking to help Mrs. Crane.
Verlag: The Eakins Press Foundation, New York, 1994
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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First edition. The complete portfolio containing nine hand-pulled photogravures, printed on Rives BFK paper by Jon Goodman from Evans's original negatives, lent by the Estate of Walker Evans, each with the publisher's debossed stamp. With an introduction, "Walker Evans: The Brooklyn Bridge," by publisher Leslie George Katz, and the dedicatory poem "To Brooklyn Bridge," by Hart Crane. Copy 39 of an edition of 100 numbered copies plus 15 proofs. Each print measures 9 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (25.1 x 14.9 cm.). Unbound sheets in cloth box, with label, as issued. Fine. "In an age where the 'vintage print' has all but stopped the full realization of important, past photographic works, the Eakins Press Foundation has brought to fulfillment one of the earliest projects of America's most important photographer. The nine photographs of Walker Evans of the Brooklyn Bridge have been scrupulously reproduced in hand-gravure by the renowned printer Jon Goodman. With this portfolio, the quality of the final print has at last reached a level worthy of the grandeur of Evans's vision and the timeless symbol of the Brooklyn Bridge. Each of the nine photographs in this portfolio is an architectural detail reinforcing the integrity of the whole. They dwell with Crane's eloquence in the mind of the viewer to form a kind of prayer. Together, Crane's words and Evans' photographs form a relationship that joins the two mediums in a pure and distinctive metaphor of appreciation that is worthy of both." - excerpt from the essay by Leslie George Katz.
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Walker Evans (illustrator). Second printing of the second edition. Dark blue cloth,very good, second printing jacket worn but intact. The second edition contains many corrections and revisions. This, its second printing, printed in July 1930, has a different Evans photo as frontispiece. Signed by Crane, and by Walker Evans. Schwartz and Schweik A 3.2.
Verlag: Black Sun Press, 1930
Anbieter: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited Edition. #118/200 Numbered Copies printed on Holland Paper, bound in French fold cream wrappers printed in black and red, spine slightly toned, in clear glassine (browned and nicked at edges), in silver-sided slipcase. Slipcase is restored. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Unpaginated. A lyric epic and paean to America at the height of the industrial age, brimming with rhetorical flights and eccentric visionary imagery. Lovely copy of a scarce and fragile book. Q15820.
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First edition. Quarto, original white printed wrappers, copy number 104 out of 200 on Holland paper. Wrappers fine, just a bit of wear to the spine of the original glassine, original silver-paper slipcase worn, missing its ends and with a bit bent down and peeling. [Schwartz & Schweik A 2].
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First edition. Quarto, original white printed wrappers, glassine cover, silver-gilt paper slipcase in pieces, light offsetting to the front end-papers, and with the usual slight discoloration to the covers, and a few small spots to the spine. Basically, a fine copy, fresh and clean. One of 200 numbered copies on Holland paper. The first book illustrated by Walker Evans, with three photogravures.
Verlag: Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, USA
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4to, original white printed wrappers, original glassine, in publisher's silver-gilt paper covered slipcase. Expert archival restoration to slipcase, light offsetting to the front end papers, and with the usual discoloration to the covers where the book is pulled out of the slipcase, otherwise a very good copy of an increasingly rare book. Expert archival restoration to slipcase, light offsetting to the front end papers, and with the usual discoloration to the covers where the book is pulled out of the slipcase, otherwise a very good copy of an increasingly rare book First edition of Crane's masterpiece. One of 200 numbered copies printed on Holland Paper. Schwartz & Schweik A2. Minkoff A32. Connolly 100, 64. One of the seminal American poems of the Twentieth Century, about which Harold Bloom has noted: "what is imperishable in The Bridge is not its lyric mourning, but its astonishing transformation of the sublime ode into an American epic, uneven certainly but beyond The Waste Land in aspiration and accomplishment." - Introduction to The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (N. Y.: Liveright, 2000). In 1928, Crane and Evans met for the first time under Brooklyn Bridge, "Evans with his vest-pocket camera and Crane with his notebook. They recognized each other as kindred spirits and fell naturally into conversation. Crane was fascinated by photography. . . ." After first considering a reproduction of Joseph Stella's cubist painting of the Brooklyn Bridge to illustrate his poem, Crane decided that he "wanted to use three of Evans' photographs of the bridge as separate plates within the text." Evans's photographs were published for the first time in The Bridge, and since then have become identified not only with Crane's poem, but with the Brooklyn Bridge itself, in the artistic and literary imagination. - Belinda Rathbone, Walker Evans. A Biography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), pp. 41-52.
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First edition. First edition Quarto, original white printed wrappers, small ownership "chop" on front endpaper, a fine copy in original silver paper slipcase. No. 97 of 200 numbered copies on Holland paper. [Schwartz & Schweik A 2].
Verlag: The Black Sun Press: Paris, 1930
Anbieter: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, USA
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Three photographs by Walker Evans, 10.5 x 8.75, wrap in glassine cover, unpag, one corner with very gentle bump else nice fresh copy in splitting silver slipcase. FIRST ED, ONE OF 200 NUMBERED COPIES.
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. One of 50 copies on Japanese Vellum, signed by Hart Crane. Contents completely fine, a very fresh copy. Covers generally bright and clean (see photos), but the spine tips are dulled where the glassine is also worn. There is a professionally repaired thin paper-split down the spine, now manifesting as a crease (see photo). During the repair, thin paper reinforcement was added underneath, so that the book can now be laid open flat -- and actually enjoyed. The book is also now supported by a thick mylar wrap, which makes it easier to handle. A modernist highspot at a very attractive price.
Verlag: Black Sun Press, 1930
Anbieter: CASSIUS&Co., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Crane is a singular figure in American poetry in that he sought a Romantic voice in the era of high Modernism. The Bridge is easily his most significant work, his answer to Eliot s The Waste Land or the Cantos of Ezra Pound, and one which finds hope and optimism in his century where Eliot saw only despair, which is sadly ironic given Eliot s long life and Crane s suicide at 32. This is one of Black Sun Press typically beautiful productions, one of an edition of 284. Includes the original slipcase which is a bit damaged, and is otherwise an excellent copy of this scarce and much loved title, made particularly special by the inclusion of illustrative photographs by Crane s friend, the legendary photographer Walker Evans.
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First edition. Quarto, original white wrappers, original printed dust jacket, original glassine jacket, untrimmed. Housed in publisher's original silver foil-covered slipcase. Custom boxed. Copy number 121 of 200 copies on Holland paper (from a total edition of only 283 copies). This copy has Crane's bookplate, version "C" (K. Lohf, Proof, 3, 1972), on the front endpaper. Illustrated with three superb tissue-guarded photographs by Walker Evans. The second and last book published during Crane's brief and tragic life, The Bridge was written in violent reaction to the pessimism and disillusionment of post-war American and English poetry, specifically Eliot's Waste Land. Crane's goal was to write a visionary poem integrating American history since the Spanish conquest with present-day realities of business, the marvels of architecture and engineering, and the American spirit of democratic optimism, all held together by one dominant symbol -- the Brooklyn Bridge. His poetic sensibility, akin to the revolutionary aesthetic begun by Walt Whitman and developed by such poets as William Carlos Williams and later Robert Lowell, is at its best in such lyrics as "The Harbor Dawn" and "The River." "Crane finds in America a principle of unity and absolute faith and. in the Brooklyn Bridge, an image of man's anonymous creative power unifying past and present" (Hart, 192). . Connolly, The Modern Movement, 62. Hart Crane's engraved bookplate on inside of front wrapper. Only some darkening and wear to the fragile glassine along the spine; fragile paper spine starting to split, but sound. Some rubbing to edges of the silver-foil publisher's slipcase. Interior fine. Evidenced by the presence of his bookplate in its earliest state, this was Crane's own copy (or one of his copies) of his masterpiece, a cornerstone of modern American poetry, in extremely good condition. [Schwartz & Schweik A 2].
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First edition. No. 175 of 200 copies (from a total edition of only 283 copies) on Holland paper, printed in red and black. Printed for Harry and Caresse Crosby at the Black Sun Press. A most desirable association copy. The Crosbys visited Crane in New York in late 1929. A few days later, Harry committed suicide. Caresse returned to Paris and supervised the production of this book. This copy is from the library of Caresse Crosby, and bears the leather, joint bookplate of Harry and Caresse on the reverse of the front cover. The three Evans photographs are protected by tissue-guards. Original paper-wrapper covers, front and back. Small cracks to the paper on the spine near the top and a minuscule split at the lower front hinge. A very small chip to spine. Offset from bookplate on endpaper. Contained in the original grey cardboard slipcase covered in a gold-and-silver paper, with a cloth pull; the slipcase has been expertly restored. A fine, fresh copy. Provenance: From the library of Crane scholar Vivian Pemberton, purchased from InternationalBookfinders, 1987. Minkoff: Black Sun Bibliography A-32. pp. 30-31. [Schwartz and Schweik: A 2].
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First edition. From the first edition of 283 copies, this copy is one of only 25 review copies marked "hors commerce". Lightly soiled wrappers with minor wear and sun to the spine. Pages have the occasional faint spotting. Schwartz & Schweik A 2. The Black Sun Press issued a note with hors commerce copies (although not present here) stating "[We] regret that due to a defective impression and quality of paper these advance copies of 'The Bridge,' hors commerce, are considered typographically imperfect. A re-impression on velin Van Gelder of the numbered copies will appear for sale March 1st at the Bookshop of Harry F. Marks, New York." This would indicate that hors commerce copies along with those on Japanese vellum arguably constitute a first impression before the type was reset for the run on Van Gelder, and, indeed there are differences in the line spacing between the printings.
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First edition. Quarto, original white printed wrappers. Expert restoration to the paper on the spine, otherwise a bright, fresh copy with all tissue guards present; original glassine replaced; enclosed in a new slipcase. Copy number 30 of only 50 copies printed on Japan Vellum, signed by Crane. There were an additional 200 copies in the regular issue. One of the most important American poetic works of the twentieth century as well as a significant collaboration between writer and photographer. The Bridge, called "cubism in poetry" when it was initially reviewed in The New York Times, stands as one of the great epics of 20th-century poetry. Cyril Connolly writes that of the poems "some of them. are near perfect and the whole allegory a masterpiece of neo- romanticism" (The Modern Movement, p.62). Its publication was initiated when Crane met Harry and Caresse Crosby on his trip to Europe in 1929. After reading drafts of "The Bridge", they agreed to publish a limited edition under their Black Sun imprint. Crane took up residence in an old mill on the estate of the Conte de la Rochefoucauld which the Crosby's had made into their weekend retreat. Crane hoped to finish the poem that summer, but was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct and briefly incarcerated in July. Crosby brought Crane's return ticket to the U.S. In December, he and his wife visited Crane in New York. A few days after their visit, Harry committed suicide. Despite her husband's death, Caresse Crosby returned to Paris to see The Bridge through the press. Numerous changes, mostly minor, were incorporated in the American edition, which appeared three months after the first. [Schwartz & Schweik A 2].
Verlag: The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First edition. One of 50 copies on Japanese Vellum, signed by Crane. Quarto, original white printed wrappers, with original glassine cover and gilt paper covered slipcase (slipcase slightly rubbed, 1-inch piece missing from bottom edge). A beautiful copy of one of the rarest and most important books of twentieth century poetry, and the first book publication of Evans's work, it was illustrated with three gravures printed actual size from his 1-3/8 inch by 2- 1/2 inch photos.
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
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Evans, Walker (illustrator). First American edition. Photographic frontispiece by Walker Evans. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (few soil marks); pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping at edges, a few old tape repairs on verso). Provenance: Kathryn and Nick Kenney (presentation inscription). First American Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CRANE TO KATHRYN AND NICK KENNEY on the front free endpaper: "For Kay and Nick | With the most affectionate regards | of the 'last | bear, shot drinking in the Dakotas' | Hart Crane | Brooklyn, '30." Kathryn Kenney and Crane met in the spring of 1921 in Cleveland, when she was "a vivacious, enormously talented girl who seemed the focus of every group in which she moved"; she was Crane's "happiest companion as, singing, laughing, alive with irrepressible wit, they would turn their troubles into comedy" (John Unterecker, Voyager: A Life of Hart Crane, New York, 1970, p.210). Kenney later wrote the society column for the Cleveland Times Commercial, though Crane still preferred to think of her as "the famous vaudeville songster" (p.296). Thirty years after Crane's suicide, in 1962, Kenney recollected: "The great laughter which was Hart's most distinctive and charming feature has never, to my knowledge, ever been touched. Not really. And yet, it colored and saved (I am certain) him to the end of his life" (p.201). Connolly, The Modern Movement 64 [Schwarz and Schweik A 3.1]. Christie's New York, Rockefeller Plaza; Masterpieces of Modern Literature: The Library of Roger Rechler Sale, Oct 11, 2002. Lot Number 58, Sale Number 1098; Christie's cataloguer butchered the inscription, rendering it (a phrase from Crane's "Powhatan's daughter") nonsensically as "'last | bear, shit-drinking with | L'Abotas".
Verlag: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
First American edition. Photographic frontispiece by Walker Evans. Original dark blue cloth, uncut; spine faded and with slight wear at ends, a little mild spotting on front cover. Pictorial dust jacket reproducing the Walker Evans frontispiece photograph; jacket worn, ends of spine strengthened on verso. Dark blue half morocco slipcase. First American edition, which appeared three months after the Paris first and incorporated numerous changes (mostly minor), producing Crane's final text. An outstanding and rare presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Crane in a neat hand to John Augustus Roebling, the grandson of John Roebling (designer of the bridge) and son of Washington Roebling (the engineer who oversaw the construction of the very bridge which inspired the epic poem): "To John A. Roebling in hommage [sic] to the traditions and great achievements of the Roebling Family â " from Hart Crane, August â 30." A recent Crane biographer refers to this copy and quotes from a letter (of 18 August 1930) presenting it: "In mid-August he sent an inscribed copy of "The Bridge" to John Augustus Roebling . â My devotion to the Brooklyn Bridge as the matchless symbol of America and its destiny prompted this dedication [presentation inscription],' Crane wrote [in the letter], â as I dare say the particular view of the bridge's span from my window on Columbia Heights [in Brooklyn] . inspired the general conception and form of the entire poem.' Only now, with the poem already completed, had he learned that he'd actually shared the same address [in fact the same room at 110 Columbia Heights] with Washington Roebling, the creator of the bridge. He hoped that [Roebling] would find something to admire in the poem, which, Crane added modestly, was in its own way â as ambitious and complicated as was the original engineering project'" (Mariani, "The Broken Tower," p. 356). Affixed to the half-title (probably by Roebling, from a copy he is stated to have previously purchased - ?) under "The Bridge" is the Walker Evans dust jacket photograph cut from another jacket. [Schwartz & Schweik A 3.1]. The letter from Crane to Roebling that accompanied this presentation copy was reproduced in holographic form, along with commentary, in "The Hart Crane Newsletter," Vol. II, No. 2, Spring, 1979, pp. 13-14 (q.v.).The letter itself was last seen at auction at Sotheby's in 1979. Provenance: Unnamed consignor sale, Charles Hamilton Galleries, 4 March 1976, lot 90; Sotheby's Auction, New York, 13 April, 2004.