The Collected Poems of Hart Crane. Edited with an introduction by Waldo Frank

New York: Liveright, (1933). First edition. Large 8vo, 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. 157 pages of poems, including twelve previously uncollected poems. The personal reading copy of Crane scholar John H. Birss, with numerous tipped or laid-in clippings and items, including a never-published original arcade photograph of Crane, a never-published stop-press obituary addendum describing Crane’s suicide, and a then-unpublished poem by Crane dated 1921. Multiple notations to the text by Birss indicate the intensity of his study. Schwartz & Schweik A 4.1. Item #32572

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