Seven Lyrics
Cambridge, Mass. The Ibex Press, (1968). Scott, Laurence. First edition. Original printed wrappers, fine. One of 250 copies. Frontispiece by Laurence Scott, signed in pencil. More
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Seven Lyrics
Cambridge, Mass. The Ibex Press, (1968). Scott, Laurence. First edition. Original printed wrappers, fine. One of 250 copies. Frontispiece by Laurence Scott, signed in pencil. More
White Buildings
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition, second issue. Second issue, with tipped-in title page spelling Allen Tate's name correctly. Inscribed to Solomon Grunberg, a bookseller and close friend of Crane: “For Solomon Grunberg | with best wishes - | Hart Crane.” Solomon Grunberg is described by Crane biographer..... More
White Buildings.; Foreword by Allan Tate
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition, first issue. FIRST EDITION, THE SCARCE FIRST ISSUe, with the misspelling "Allan Tate" on the title page. The entire first printing consisted of 500 copies, 50 of which were sent out to reviewers. These 50 comprise the first issue, with Allen Tate's..... More
White Buildings.; Foreword by Allen Tate
New York: Horace Liveright, 1926. first edition, second printing. Crane's first book, one of 250 copies printed in September 1929. Cloth backed batik paper boards, very good in defective dust jacket. Although Albert Boni had sold his interest in the firm to Horace Liveright in 1919, the publisher's name remained..... More
The Bridge. A Poem. With three photographs by Walker Evans
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Evans, Walker. 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..... More
The Calendar. July, 1926
London: The Calendar Press, 1927. Wrappers, near fine. Contains Crane;'s "National Winter Garden," "Southern Cross". Schwarz and Schweik B 67, B100. More
"The Hive," tearsheet from The Pagan, 1, March, 1917
New York: Pagan Publishing Co., 1917. 4-1/4 inches x 4-1/8 inches. Excellent condition, glued to a larger sheet of tan paper. Crane's first poem written and published after his move to New York, as by Harold Crane. From Hart Crane's papers, preserved by Betty Crane Madden. Schwartz and Schweik B...... More
THE AMERICAN CARAVAN. A Yearbook of American Literature
New York: The Literary Guild, 1927. A collection of original essays, stories, and poems by 72 writers of the 1920s. Contributors include Robert Penn Warren, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, and Gertrude Stein. Decorative endpapers. Black cloth with gilt titling on spine and on front cover. Corners and margins show wear..... More
Lyric America: An Anthology of American Poetry 1630-1930.
New York: Viking, 1930. First edition. 4to, 1/4 cloth. Spine darkened and rubbed. Signed by Hart Crane and Alma Crane. Alma was Hart Crane's aunt, who worked in a Cleveland bookstore, where she sold copies of "White Buildings" "to every customer who was a reader of poetry and to a...... More
White Buildings: Poems. Foreword by Allen Tate.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition. Decorated paper boards, blue cloth back. Spine dulled, corners slightly worn, else a very good copy. Schwartz and Schweik A1.1. More
Personae. The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound. Including Ripostes, Lustra, Homage to Sextus Propertius, H.S. Mauberley
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Second printing (February 1927). 8vo, frontispiece by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 231 pp., original dark blue cloth, spine and edges slightly rubbed and faded. Inscribed by Hart Crane to the artist John W. Taylor "To Jack Taylor, Good friend and counselor, Hart Crane, December '28". The..... More
Inscribed portrait photograph.
Real photo postcard. Approximately 3 x 4.5 in. Hart is reposing with Peggy against a tree in the front yard of their home in a suburb of Mexico City. Crane is dressed in his favorite French sailor’s suit. This postcard is inscribed in Crane’s hand: “Our front yard Mixcoac.” This..... More
The Shipwreck
London: 1785. Sixth edition. Hart Crane's copy, inscribed to him by Harry Crosby: "Hart Crane /the Aeroplane part / is magnificent. No / need for you to fly / unless you believe in Valéry / 'if we imagine a balloon / journey, we can with / sagacity, with power, /..... More
Typed letter signed, to W. Price Turner, 18 April 1952
To the editor of "The Poet", Glasgow. One page, typewritten by Cummings, signed with his monogram. This response to seeing his work in print seems like a poem: "The charming Poet is here; and as | I finished his fifth page, Spring arrived | what a whole continent of luck!..... More
The Burning of Los Angeles
Venice, Calif. J'Ose Press, 1971. First edition. Unbound sheets in plastic folder and printed envelope as issued. Worn envelope. One of 150 copies. More
Alsace-Lorraine
Guildford, Conn. Telephone Books, [1982]. First edition. Wrappers, stapled. 8 1/2 in x 11 in. One of 350 copies. Inscribed to poet Kathleen Fraser. Fraser has annotated more than a few poems, with comments or other marks. More
Collection of letters to John Ciardi. 1958-1969
3 autograph and 10 typed letters signed. The first submitting poems (Ciardi edited The Saturday Review's poetry), mentioning Ciardi's article and his own lecture on Frost's "Stopping by Woods" (sic). The others from 1969 concern teaching at Breadloaf. With one carbon from Ciardi. More
The Hermaphrodite and Other Poems
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1936. First edition. De Luxe edition, limited to 10 signed and numbered copies, of which this is #3. With Loveman’s inscription: This is my own copy. Samuel Loveman." Important collection of early 20th century American gay poems. With a two page preface by Benjamin de..... More
Walk the Plank!; Libretto by Phyllis McGinley, music by Gladys Rich.
New York: Schirmer, (1928). First edition. Wrappers, stapled, a bit dusty, very good. First edition, precedes by six years McGinley's first published book. Scarce. More
Two Pieces
London: Long Hair Books, 1969. First edition. Blue wrappers, fine. First edition, one of 500 copies. Smith A14. More
Cantos 110-116*.
[Bolinas]: Sara Schrom, 1979. Photocopied sheets, side stapled. Lower cover detached, else very good. *"An unauthorized Xerox of the Original Fuck You Press publication with special addenda of Canto CXX". An interesting derivative, second-generation piracy. "Canto 120" (one of the fragments from Canto 115) is reproduced from "Anonym", Buffalo, 1969..... More
Grace after Meat
London: Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. One of 400 copies hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Yellow, green and red patterned paper over boards, yellow title label. 57 pp. A bright, near-fine copy. Woolmer 51. More
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