hart crane, Prima edizione

Descrizione libro: Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926. Hardcover. First edition, second issue. Foreword by Allen Tate. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Hart Crane's own copy of his first book, with his later ownership Signature: "Hart Crane, Aug. '31" and his bookplate on the front pastedown. Apparently Hart Crane's mother either gave away or sold some of his bookplates shortly after his death to Crane's good friend, the bookseller Samuel Loveman, thus resulting in occasional "association copies" surfacing. However, all of the books that we have seen Signed by him (with the exception of the Signed edition of *The Bridge*) were from his personal library. Codice libro della libreria 99654

Descrizione libro: Paris : The Black Sun Press., 1930. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Number 78 of 200 numbered copies on Holland Paper. This copy given to his beloved aunt Elizabeth Crane and Uncle Byron Madden of Cleveland, Ohio Inscribed Presentation copy, by Crane "For Bess and Byron Madden with love from Hart Crane Dec. 1930". A fine copy in original white tissue-like glassine, and in the publisher's paper-covered slipcase, which has been expertly repaired. Inscribed by Author(s). Codice libro della libreria VP-104

Descrizione libro: Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930, 1930. First Edition; one of 50 copies printed on Japan vellum, signed by Crane. Connolly 100. By happy coincidence, Evans and Crane met at the Brooklyn Bridge. It was Crane's choice to use these three photographs, previously unpublished, with his poem, a modest collaboration at the time, but now so closely associated as to seem nearly inseparable. A fine copy in the original glassine, and in the publisher's paper-covered slipcase, which has only very minor wear. In a custom quarter-morocco clamshell box. Crane might well have chosen to leap to his death from the iconic bridge, but instead threw himself overboard returning from Cuba just two years later. Codice libro della libreria 25148

Descrizione libro: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930. Hardcover. First American edition, preceded by the very limited French edition. Photograph by Walker Evans. Fine in a very good, spine-faded dustwrapper with a couple of internally repaired short tears. Inscribed by the poet: "For Tom Smith with best wishes, Hart Crane." This edition was extensively revised and corrected following the first privately printed edition of 275 copies published by the Black Sun Press in Paris three months earlier. Smith was the editor-in-chief for the publisher Horace Liveright to whom, some evidence exists, Crane turned to when he was short on funds. Smith picked a succession of best sellers for Liveright beginning with Hendrick Van Loon's *The Story of Mankind* (1921). Equally important, he selected up-and-coming writers Eugene O'Neill (*Gold: A Play in Four Acts*), Ernest Hemingway (*In OurTime*), William Faulkner (*Soldier's Pay*), T.S. Eliot (*The Waste Land*), Sherwood Anderson (*Windy McPherson's Son*), and Hart Crane (*The Bridge*). He also edited Dreiser's *An American Tragedy*. As Manuel Komroff wrote in his tribute to Smith and to his lasting influence on American literature: "Here was born a new American renaissance. All literature was changed and the relation between literature and the great American public was also changed . much of this change was due to Tom Smith . No one literary man in America has to his credit so much and no one literary man has carried this load with such humble modesty ." (*The Book of Tom Smith. A Biblio-Epitaph*. Privately Printed, 1942). The relationship between Liveright and Smith inspired Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur to co-write and co-direct the 1935 film *The Scoundrel* (for which they won an Academy Award for their screenplay). One of the highspots of 20th Century poetry, rare signed, and with an excellent association. *Connolly 100*. Codice libro della libreria 99459

Descrizione libro: The Black Sun Press: Paris, 1930. 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. Codice libro della libreria 97-9618

Descrizione libro: Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926. Hardcover. First edition, first issue with Allen Tate's name spelled incorrectly on the integral title page. Edges of the boards rubbed, a very good copy in an internally repaired, very good dustwrapper with .5" loss at the crown. Crane's first book. One of 500 copies of both issues, with seemingly a very small number of those in the first issue. The last copy of the first issue to appear at auction brought $8000 in 2002. See this book in 3D on our site. Codice libro della libreria 100429

Descrizione libro: Brooklyn Heights, 1934. Soft cover. Condizione libro: Fine. 1st Edition. 5 1/2 inches x 8 1/2 in., a single sheet of paper folded to form four pages, printed in brown ink. Titling on the outer front page with dedication to Frederick Clayton, and with a Brooklyn Heights, November 1934 imprint. Contains prints two letters from Crane to Samuel Loveman: (1) R.M.S. "Tuscania" Off Newfoundland, December 9, 1928. & (2) 15 Calle Michoacan, Mixcoac DF April 13, 1932." On two printed pages with the limitation statement, and with Jack Birss' signature in blue ink at the bottom of the third page. "These letters are printed through the kindness of Grace Hart Crane and Samuel Loveman." An ultra fine copy of a very rare item; very few surviving copies are now in private hands. Schwartz & Schweik: Hart Crane Bibliography, A 5, p. 42-44. Codice libro della libreria VP-121

Descrizione libro: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930. Hardcover. 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*. See this book in 3D on our site. Codice libro della libreria 102366

Descrizione libro: Transition, Paris, 1927. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Very Good +. First edition. The first twelve consecutive issues of Transition Magazine bound in four identical blue cloth volumes. Sold here as a set. Original covers bound in. Other than some tanning to paper, these are all in attractive fine condition. Some age spotting to cloth covers. The pre-eminent literary magazine of its day, Transition published nearly every major avant-garde artist and writer of the times including Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Paul Eluard, Malcolm Cowley, Paul Bowles, Andre Masson, Kafka, Picasso, Hemingway and much more. Codice libro della libreria 12172

Descrizione libro: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930. Full Leather. Condizione libro: Fine. First edition. First American edition of Crane's best known work. Fine condition. Beautifully rebound in gilt-ruled full leather binding with original dustwrapper covers bound in. A lovely copy. A Connolly 100 title. This book was preceded by a very limited French edition. Codice libro della libreria 14360

Descrizione libro: Cambridge, Mass. The Ibex Press., 1966. Soft cover. Condizione libro: Fine. 1st Edition. A broadside measuring 10 ¼ in. x 21 in. The first publication of this poem in an edition of only 60 copies. With an engraving by Laurence Scott who signed his work. Rolled up from being stored in a mailing tube. On the reverse upper corners there is evidence that mounting tabs had once been present. A fine item. Signed by Illustrator(s). Codice libro della libreria VP-223

Descrizione libro: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1933. Hardcover. First edition, limited issue. Edited with an Introduction by Waldo Frank. Slight sunning and soiling, still near fine, without dustwrapper. One of 50 press numbered copies for the friends of Hart Crane, this is copy number 58, putting the actual limitation in some doubt. Nevertheless, uncommon. See this book in 3D on our site. Codice libro della libreria 280986

Descrizione libro: NY: Liveright (1933)., 1933. First edition. First edition. 179 pp w/appendixes. Spine lightly sunned, else near fine in full brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. Library gift bookplate inside front cover, which has offset to the ffep. One of 50 press-numbered copies. Edited with an introduction by Waldo Frank. Portrait of Crane by David Alfaro Siqueiros as a frontis. The bibliography notes that the copy at Ohio state is numbered "55" but was manipulated to erase the second five and substitiute an "0." This copy is numbered "11," but it appears that a third digit may have been erased. Schwartz & Schweik A4. Codice libro della libreria 40252

Descrizione libro: Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926. Hard Cover. Condizione libro: Very Good. First Edition. Boni & Liveright. New York: 1926. First Edition, Second State with tipped in title page with correct spelling of Allen Tate. xix, 58 pp. Original tan batik boards with blue cloth binding on the spine. Text on spine is almost faded away. Edges of boards are mildly rubbed and worn. Interior is clean and unmarked. Lacking the very scarce dust jacket. Foreword by Tate. Crane's first book. Codice libro della libreria 004295

Descrizione libro: Liveright, New York, 1930. 82p., rubricated title page,Walker Evans frontis on inserted coated stock, textblock untrimmed; first edition in dust jacket. A holograph note in an unknown hand is tipped onto a blank, this reads "here is a first edition & the first real piece of real poetry to come out of Amer in fifty years" signed with an initial "A." Pastedown bears bookplate of Henry Davis Nadig, endpapers are foxed and browned, expect light old fountainpen underlining (in 'Cape Hatteras') and a marginal query at the end of 'Virginia.' Panelled cloth casebinding is a bit worn at extremities with some weave showing, unpriceclipped dj is badly shelfworn and discolored with large chips out of the spine (entire jacket has been backed professionally with Japanese repair tissue), and the graphic is rubbed. Codice libro della libreria 129825

Descrizione libro: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York City, 1933. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of 50 press numbered copies for the friends of Hart Crane. This is copy number 37 . Rebound in full leather with guilt title and decorations. 2 short tears have been repaired with restoration tape .My binder gave this copy an extraordinary fine binding.Front cover pasted down front page in. Unreal craftsmanship . Photo's on request. Codice libro della libreria 001182

Descrizione libro: Horace Liveright, 1929., 1929. Condizione libro: Very good. - Octavo, decorative black & tan paper covered boards backed with black cloth & titled in gilt on the spine in a dust wrapper. The boards are lightly bumped with their edges slightly darkened and the head & tail of the spine are slightly chipped. The panels of the dust jacket are a bit soiled around the edges & its spine is slightly sunned with minor chipping to the head & tail. xix & 58 pages. There is a tiny piece out of the bottom corner of 1 rear blank & there is a bookseller's small label on the rear pastedown. Very good. Second printing of the poet's first book, published in an edition of 250 copies. [The first printing was 500 copies]. Codice libro della libreria 18489

Descrizione libro: Horace Liveright (1929), NY, 1929. Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: good +. Second printing. Original dark blue cloth and batik boards, small octavo, ix, 58 pp. Second printing of only 250 copies of Hart Crane's first book (after a first printing in 1926 of 500 copies). Title page is dated 1926, but second printing notice dated September, 1929 on copyright page. Second printing notice on front jacket flap and on lower quarter of jacket spine between publisher's logo and imprint. Slight wear to spine ends, bottom edges of boards rubbed, else fine in somewhat scuffed dustwrapper with shallow chips to spine ends, fading to jacket spine and a couple tiny nicks there, else very good. Codice libro della libreria 19255

Descrizione libro: Chicago 1921, 1921. First Edition. POETRY-A MAGAZINE OF VERSE (8 bound volumes) being April -September 1921; October 1921 -March 1922; April -September 1922; April -September 1923; October 1928 -March 1929; April -September 1929; October 1929 -March 1930 & April -September 1930, each in first edition, near fine copies with original contributions by: Bishop, Bodenheim, Ficke, Golding, Heyward, Hughes, Lowell, Rilke, Roberts, Taggard, Wescott, Wylie, Schneider, Robinson, Bellamann, Bynner, DeFord, De la Mare, Frost, Sandburg, Stevens, Untermeyer, Boyle, Allen, Auslander, Bogan, Barry, Kreymborg, Winters, Aldington, Austin, Hueffer, Lindsay, Lawrence, Masters, Millay, Teasdale, Wylie, Smith, North, Laing, Gorman, Pound, Crosby, Strong, Zukofsky, Eiseley, Aiken, Conklin, Crane, Williams, et.al. Codice libro della libreria 0162

Descrizione libro: Boni & Liveright, United States, 1926. Orig. Blue Cloth & Batik Paper. Condizione libro: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition, Second Impression. Hart Crane's first book. **RARE**. 1 of only 500 copies printed. A Milestone in modern American poetry. (58 pages + blanks. Navy Blue cloth spines, handmade Batik paper boards. (The batik process involves painting ink into sections of absorbent paper that have been outlined with paraffin wax.) Small dampstain affects several of the outer margins at the beginning of the textblock, not affecting text. Quite lovely. Photographs sent upon request. Codice libro della libreria 1000234

Descrizione libro: New York, Pagan Pub. Co. [1918]., 1918. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original 1/2 orange cloth over blue boards, upper cover printed paper label (slight fading to spine, rubbing to corners and edges). Good-very good. 92 pages. Contains two poems by Hart Crane: "October-November" and "Fear" (Schwartz & Schweik B34 and B70, respectively). This volume marks Crane's first book appearance; his first individual title ("White Buildings") was published in 1926. Signed and inscribed by contributor Ruth Clay Price in pencil on front free endpaper (under her married name: "Mrs. Jones from her Pagan friend Ruth Price Simpson"). With pencil annotations by Price throughout, and an Autograph Letter Signed of Price's (with 2 other ALS's) laid in loose. Contributors include: Maxwell Bodenheim; Ruth Clay Price; Hart Crane, et al. Codice libro della libreria 1709

Descrizione libro: Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, 1957. Paperback. Condizione libro: Fine. First edition. 1957, First Edition. This copy is "R" of 25 lettered review copies signed by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. Oblong 4to, string-bound with title label, housed in folding paper chemise. The book is in Fine condition. The slipcase shows some offsetting to the top piece and spine; title labels and hinges in nice condition. Published by MOMA and printed at Baskin's Gehenna Press. Rare. One of only 25 review copies. Codice libro della libreria 0068049

Descrizione libro: Horace Liveright, 1929. Hard Cover. First Edition; Second Printing. No pencil or ink markings in text. Cloth and paper-covered boards. Bottom corners very lightly bumped. Light shelf-wear to bottom spine. Digital pictures of book available upon request; NOT Ex-Library. Very Good binding. Codice libro della libreria 212932

Descrizione libro: Transition/ Shakespeare and Co.,, Paris:, 1930. First edition. (CROSBY, Harry). TRANSITION. Number 19/20. Spring-Summer Number, June 1930 [Periodical: Double number in one physical volume, as issued]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers (cover art by Eli Lotar), 398 pages, illustrated (reproducing, in black-and-white, artwork by Picasso, Miro, Leger, G. Grosz, P. Klee et al; photographs by Edward Weston). Contains the first appearance of "For Future Reference," a two-page poem by Samuel Beckett [F&F 4]; additional contributions by Paul Bowles ("Delicate Song") [Miller C66], Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Archibald MacLeish, William Carlos Williams, George Hugnet, Richard Eberhart, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Soupault, Eugene Jolas, African-American author J. Saunders Redding ("Delaware Coon") et al. Also prints a section devoted to young English authors ("Cambridge Experiment: A Manifesto of Young England") with contributions by William Empson, George Reavey, John Davenport et al, and a selection of tributes to Harry Crosby, "In Memoriam: Harry Crosby," and Crosby's poem "Sleeping Together." In addition to a section of printed tributes to Harry Crosby, the unprinted verso of last leaf has an original sixteen-line poem entitled, "Harry Crosby 1930," in contemporary pencil holograph, in an unknown hand: "He left their smoky rooms & died/ Sky-high, partly because he/ found life difficult/ mostly because he did not like/ their talk/ their poems, & probably even now/ he is only tolerant of their/ whining elegies,/ secure in some ethereal lagoon/ (while the world's breakers crash/ intolerably on)/ & friends write poems of themselves/ about his death./ write drunken elegies in smoky rooms." Harry Crosby died on December 10, 1929. Moderate wear and few small tears on spine, with shallow chipping at base and crown, front cover has few short tears, and two small chips (at lower fore-corner), text is moderately tanned (as usual, due to acidic paper), else a very good, bright copy of a fragile publication. Codice libro della libreria 68564

Descrizione libro: Liveright Inc. Publishers,, New York:, 1933. CRANE, Hart. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF HART CRANE. Edited with an Introduction by Waldo Frank. Large octavo, dark maroon cloth stamped in gold, with blind-stamped rule on front cover, pp. xxxiv, 179. Spine gilt lettering is dull, text lightly tanned at edges, else a near fine copy in very good, dust jacket; jacket's spine is slightly chipped at top edge, moderately worn at extremities, with both panels quite bright. First edition, first impression [Schwartz A 4. 1]. Codice libro della libreria 42540

Descrizione libro: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930. Cloth Bds. Condizione libro: Good+. 1st. 8vo, 82 pp., Corners slightly bumped, slight yellowing of page edges, prev. owner's signature on ffep. Frontis photograph by Walker Evans detached with several chips around the edges, p. 11 a chip (still attached) along outer edge, small tear at top of half-title page. Crane made significant revisions in the text of the poem following its first publication in Paris three months earlier. A significant volume in the history of 20th century American poetry. Codice libro della libreria 3MARBURY000183

Descrizione libro: New York City, NY: Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Condizione libro: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 70 pages. Published in 1981. Wear on slipcase. Artist Book. Fully-illustrated version of the classic poem originally published in 1930. Limited Edition of 2000 numbered and signed copies. A handsome production by Richard Benson and Stephen Stinehour: Oversize-volume format. Pale blue cloth boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Poetic cycle by Hart Crane. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley, which provides an indispensable perspective on the genesis and development of the poetic cycle. Photographs by Richard Benson. Limited Editions Club materials laid-in. Matching pictorial blue slipcase. Printed using the tritone 300-line screen process on thick uncoated Mohawk Smooth Woven stock paper by the Meriden Printing Company Connecticut to the very highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Hart Crane's masterpiece in the most loving manner possible. "The Bridge" has long been regarded as a modern classic. Less well-known is the fact that the First Edition originally appeared with a frontispiece photographic reproduction by Walker Evans. Malcolm Cowley considers "The Bridge" to be the greatest American poem since Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself". He gives a first-rate assessment of the poem as well as a first-hand account, which both appear only in this edition. "The Bridge" is indeed a "Song of Myself" as much as it is an homage to the Brooklyn Bridge. In the process of writing it, now-legendary characters were deeply involved: The handsome, wealthy, and immensely talented American expatriate Harry Crosby, publisher of the Black Sun Press, who shot his wife then committed suicide in 1928. Crosby struggled, among other things, with his apparent bisexuality. The two other major characters in "The Bridge" 's creation, among so many others, were both women: The wealthy and homely Peggy Guggenheim, who established the museum that bears her name in Venice, but is best-remembered as an insatiable sexual predator, who seduced and tried to sleep with every man in sight (recounted in Mary McCarthy's "The Cicerone") and Peggy Cowley, Malcolm's wife, with whom Crane had an affair in Mexico City. Cowley approved of the affair because it diverted Crane from his tormented homosexuality, discreetly referred to as his "wild living". Cowley leaves out The End, which remains much-discussed to this day: On April 27, 1932, on a steamship headed back to New York City, and after he was humiliated and beaten up for making sexual advances to a male crew member, Hart Crane committed suicide by jumping into the Gulf of Mexico. He left no suicide note, but several witnesses reported that he tearfully waved and said, "Goodbye, everybody!" before throwing himself overboard. His body was never recovered. Here then, is the poetic cycle itself: Alive, moving, and thrilling, almost eighty years later. A "must-have" edition for Hart Crane collectors. This copy is Number 1098, indicated as such on the Back Limitation Page, and is very prominently and beautifully numbered (in pen) and signed (in pencil) by Richard Benson. This title was not widely distributed and is now very difficult to find. This is one of few copies still available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 7 plates. One of the greatest American poets of the 20th century, re-interpreted by one of its most accomplished photographers. A fine collectible copy. ISBN 0871402254. Signed by Author. Codice libro della libreria 12274

Descrizione libro: Liveright Inc, New York, 1933. First Edition. First Edition. First issue, in maroon cloth, with "Liveright-Inc-Publishers" at the foot of the title page. About Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Light shelfwear to the extremities, and a bookplate on the front pastedown. Jacket spine moderately faded, with a few small chips at the extremities, and two small cello-tape repairs on the verso. A posthumous collection, and the first collection of the poet's work to date, including the previously unpublished, "Key West: An Island Sheaf."Schwartz and Schweik, A 4.1. Codice libro della libreria 125914

Descrizione libro: Horace Liveright, New York, 1930. Hardcover. Condizione libro: VG. First Edition. 8VO. First trade edition of Crane's masterpiece, preceded by the limited Paris edition. Photo frontis by Walker Evans in excellent condition. Tidy owner's signature at inner top corner of FFEP. Corners bumped, some wear to the spine joints at extremities, dint in the rear joint below the R in Crane, gilt faded on spine, bright on front cover 82 pp. Codice libro della libreria 27365