Auden, W. H.; Berryman, John; Bishop, Elizabeth; Crane, Hart; et al. Hine, Daryl; editor.

Poetry. Sixtieth Anniversary Issue 1912-1972: First Appearances. (Volume CXXI, Number 1). October 1972. (Cover Title).

(Chicago, IL: The Modern Poetry Association), 1972. 1972. - Octavo, softcover bound in purple & white wraps. The rear wrap is darkened around the edges and lightly foxed & soiled. Title, 58 & [4] pages. Very good.

The poetry and prose in this sixtieth anniversary issue represents the first appearance of each author in Poetry magazine during the previous sixty years. Among the contents are poems by W. H. Auden, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Hart Crane, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Among the prose comments and criticism are Ezra Pound on Tagore's poems; "Poeta Nascitur" on the nature of poets by Ford Madox Ford, and "The Betjeman Brand" by Northrup Frye. Very good .

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Keywords: LITERATURE; PERIODICAL; POETRY. SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 1912-1972: FIRST APPEARANCES; DARRYL HINE, EDITOR; POEMS; ESSAYS; W. H. AUDEN; JOHN BERRYMAN; ELIZABETH BISHOP; HART CRANE; TED HUGHES; SYLVIA PLATH; GERTRUDE STEIN; DYLAN THOMAS; WALLACE STEVENS;

CRANE, Hart

Autograph Letter Signed (Als) to His Mother

Columbia Hts [New York], 16 November 1924. Letter. Very scarce, closely written two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED with superb content two years before the publication of his first book, WHITE BUILDINGS, to his mother, addressed as "Dear Grace." In part: "Another very active week. Luncheon with someone different every day, -- and nearly always someone to take up the evening. But I have been so interested in several incompleted poems that I've sat up very late working on them, and so by the advent of Saturday felt pretty tuckered out. There's no stopping for rest, however, when one is the 'current' of creation, so to speak, and so I've spent all of today at one or two stubborn(?) lines. My work's becoming known for its formal perfection and hard glowing polish, but most of those qualities, I'm afraid, are due to a great deal of labor and patience on my part. Besides working on part of my BRIDGE I'm engaged in writing a series of six sea poems called VOYAGES (they are also love poems) and one of these you will soon see published in '1924,' a magazine published at Woodstock and which I think I told you about heretofore." Crane than writes a poetic paragraph describing the weather and the river before talking about Eugene O'Neill: "O'Neil [sic] has a new play at the Greenwich Village Theatre -- a tragedy called DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS which I'll see sometime this week. He and Agnes were in town for the premiere and I called on them at their rooms in the Lafayette one evening.. He seems to have Europe in applause more than America. That's true of Waldo Frank's work in France, also, where he has been much translated and more seriously considered, far more so, than here at home. The American public is still strangely unprepared for its men of higher talents, while Europe looks more and more to America for the renascence of a creative spirit." Crane is happy to get his mother's letters and rejoices in her having "a lyric evening," dancing and drinking. "I still like to think of those five o'clock booze parties we had in the office and how giddily I sometimes came home for dinner. You were very charming and sensible about it all, too, and I thank my stars that while you are naturally an inbred Puritan you also know and appreciate the harmless gambols of an exuberant nature like my own. It all goes to promise that we shall have many merry times together later sometime when we're a little closer geographically." He concludes: "My -- but how the wind is blowing. Rain, too, on the window now! There was a wonderful fog for about 18 hours last week. One couldn't even see the garden close behind the house -- to say nothing of the piers. All night long there were distant tinklings, buoy bells and siren warnings from river craft. It was like wakening into a dream land in the early dawn -- one wondered where one was with only a milky light in the window and that vague music from a hidden world. Next morning while I dressed it was clear and glittering as usual. Like champagne, or a cold [?] to look it. Such a world! Love, as always, your Hart." With the envelope hand-addressed by Crane to "Grace Hart Crane" and SIGNED by him with his address. Also with a 1964 invoice and letter from bookseller Henry W. Wenning. An especially significant piece of Crane's extensive family correspondence, this letter has often been reprinted, appearing specifically in Thomas S. W. Lewis (editor), LETTERS OF HART CRANE AND HIS FAMILY (NY: Columbia UP, 1974), on pages 371-373. And while Lewis's Calendar of Letters indicates that the original is owned by Columbia, recent correspondence with Columbia reveals that that published claim is incorrect: this letter somehow escaped Columbia's acquisition of the Crane archive in the 1950s. A key item of Crane's that has been off the market for nearly 60 years. For the four years preceding Crane's suicide in 1932, Grace Crane had not spoken to her son. She nevertheless became his literary executor and devoted her life to promoting his work. Creases from folding, otherwise about Fine .

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Crane, Hart

The Bridge: A Poem by... With an Introduction by Malcolm Cowley

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Folio 70p. illus. Printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler, Boston. Limited edition of 2000 copies signed by the photographer. Ill.: Richard Benson (photographs). Very good condition in slightly scuffed slipcase .

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CRANE, Hart

The Bridge

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Quarto (9" x 12") bound in a silvery gray cloth imported from the Netherlands and stamped in blind and blue; 96 pages. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Copy #959 of 2000 illustrated with photographs by Richard Benson printed in a tritone 300-line screen process by Meriden Gravure Company and SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Housed in a slipcase with a pictorial design that is also used for the endpapers of the book. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Richard Benson. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase .

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Keywords: Signed, Modern Firsts, Limited Editions Club, LEC, Richard Benson, Hart Crane, New York City, Modern Poetry, Modern First Editions, Illustrated Books, Modern Photography Richard Benson Signed Modern Poetry Illustrated Books Modern Photography

CRANE, Hart; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB; BENSON, Richard, photographer; COWLEY, Malcolm, introduction

Bridge, the

New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1981. A Monument of American Poetry" CRANE, Hart. The Bridge. A Poem- With an Introduction by Malcolm Cowley and Photographs by Richard Benson. New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Limited to 2,000 copies signed by Richard Benson, this being no. 521. Large quarto (11 15/16 x 9 inches; 304 x 228 mm.). 96 pp. Illustrated with five photographic plates (including one double-page) by Richard Benson. Publisher's silver-gray Dutch natural-finish cloth, front cover with title stamped in blind, spine lettered in blue, decorative end-papers. A fine copy in the publisher's matching slip-case. Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, The Bridge, Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of The Waste Land, that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of thirty-two, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets, and literary critics alike (including Robert Lowell, Derek Walcott, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Bloom), as being one of the most influential poets of his generation. Richard Benson (born 1943) is a photographer, printer and educator who utilizes photographic processing techniques of the past and present. Benson has a broad range of interests in the photographic print-silver, platinum, palladium, and ink. Working in these different mediums, sometimes learning forgotten crafts and sometimes creating new ones, he has become convinced that ink and the modern photo offset press possess a potential for photographic rendition beyond anything else previously known. In recent years he has been working on the relationship between the computer and traditional photographic imagery, and has been applying the lessons from this in the production of long run offset books of work by different photographers, in both black and white and color. Limited Editions Club Bibliography, 520. .

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CRANE, HART

The Bridge

Limited Editions Club, 1981-01-01. Hardcover. As new #477 of 2000 in slipcase as issued. Single sheet laid in describing book. oversized and overweight. B76 Please email for photos.. Used: Like New .

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Crane, Hart.

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

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1946). (1946). New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1946). (1946). Very good. - Octavo, 8-5/8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in black cloth titled in gilt on the front cover with decorations and title in gilt within blue panels on the spine. xxxiv & 179 pages, with a frontispiece portrait after David Alfaro Siqueiros. The first group of pages are lightly pulled. Very good. Very good .

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Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; THE COLLECTED POEMS OF HART CRANE; EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WALDO FRANK; FRONTISPIECE; DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS; ILLUSTRATION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY.

HART CRANE (BROM WEBER ED.)

Complete Poems

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Bloodaxe Books Ltd. 1987, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 0906427657). Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 222pp paperback, reprinted. Good.

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Crane, Hart

Gefluisterd licht.

Amsterdam, Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, 1996, linnen met omslag, 80 p. Tweetalige editie. Vertaling Lloyd Haft. Inleidend essay door James Geary. Omslag iets gevlekt en stickerwondje voorzijde, verder goed.

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(Crane, Hart). Lohf, Kenneth A.

The Literary Manuscripts of Hart Crane.

Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, (1967). (1967). - Octavo, rust cloth backed dark green cloth titled in gilt, in dw. The dw is soiled with short tears to the rear panel and the tail of the spine. xx & 151 & [1] pp. Illustrated. Near fine in a very good dw. Fine .

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Keywords: BOOKS-ON-BOOKS; REFERENCE; ART OF THE BOOK; BIBLIOGRAPHY; (Literature). (Poetry). THE LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS OF HART CRANE. (Crane, Hart). Lohf, Kenneth A.

Crane, Hart

Newly discover Crane poem and family photograph in American Weave (December, 1966)

Cleveland, 1966. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers with minor rubbing. Previously unpublished four-line poem by Hart Crane and an unpublished family photograph "from about 1914". Near Fine.

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CRANE, HART; ASTBURY, ANTHONY [ED.]

Poems. Signed Copy

Warwick: The Greville Press, 2008. First Edition thus. Blue card cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 14pp. Signed and dedicated by Anthony Astbury on fep.. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket .

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Crane, Hart

Red Badge of Courage

Folio Society, 1951. Folio Society, Hardcover. Good Condition. B0024ZRQ6A Good+ 1951 1st print Folio Society hardback, no slipcase - a little spotting and darkening to page edges and patches of foxing to end-papers, tight and unmarked. Hard to find in this original printing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. ISBN/EAN: B0024ZRQ6A. The book is available to view in-person at our Cambridge hub. The photos provided are of the actual book for sale, further condition-specific photos may be arranged upon request.

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CRANE, HART / BROWN, Susan Jenkins

Robber Rocks: Letters and Memories of Hart Crane, 1923-1932

Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth spine and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 176pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. First edition. .

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Crane, Hart

"Ten Unpublished Poems" in Antaeus (Spring, 1972).

First Edition. 0 pp. Fine in wrappers. Paul and Jane Bowles also contribute to this issue.

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Book number: 014951