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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Poor. Anchor Books Edition, 1966. 302 pp. Binding is still solid after 42 years. Pages are bright and unmarked. A good study/work copy. Cover pages have creases and small tears near top and bottom of spine. Creases along spine. Pages slightly unhinged from spine. Small damage on top and bottom part of spine. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st California Paperbound Edition: 1965. 426 pp. Excellent copy. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Relevant newspaper article(s) included from previous owner. Publishers remainder mark on top edge of book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Name on first page, cover has light wear. Edgar Watson Howe was born May 3, 1853, on a farm in that part of Wabash County, Indiana, where the town of Treaty is now located. The Story of a Country Town (1883) was his first novel and brought him literary fame.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. RARE OUP EDITION! pp.xvii, 302 pages, a good plus paperback [0192125540].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Revised Edition (First Thus). 1984. 222pp. B&W frontispiece. Light foxing to top edge, otherwise in excellent condition. "Hart Crane was one of the most important poets of the 20th century. Robert Lowell called him 'the Shelley of my age' and 'the great poet of that generation'. The sensational aspects of Crane's life have tended to obscure the greatness of his poetry. Born in 1899 in a small Ohio town, Crane rebelled against his respectable family, and during the 1920s led a wild, precarious life in Brooklyn, Europe and the Caribbean: asserting his homosexuality, tormented by his fickle genius, depressed, sick, poor and usually drunk. In April 1932 he jumped off a ship and drowned in the sea. But Hart Crane published White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930), two major landmarks in American literature. His great poem 'The Bridge' is a modern epic, a metaphorical fusion of personal feeling with the myths and history of America, and an optimistic reply from the New World to Eliot's Waste Land. When Crane created his new visionary poetry, he found his own American symbols, man-made or untamed, in modern cities of concrete and steel, and in the luxuriant Florida Keys and Caribbean islands. Hart Crane's poetry was unavailable in Britain for many years until the Bloodaxe edition was published in 1984. This new Complete Poems, based on Brom Weber's definitive 1966 edition, has 17 additional poems from the Hart Crane manuscript collection of Columbia University Library.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 426pp. Owner name on front fly, small soil mark at the bottom corner of one page, corners slightly bumped, very good in a very good dust jacket with toning, tears, and a few tiny soil marks on the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 426pp. Light foxing on rear pastedown and a few preliminary pages, very good in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears, a lightly toned spine, and the price canceled in ink on the front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Toning on the pages, corners lightly rubbed, near fine in a very good dust jacket with creasing, shallow chips, and creasing and minimal internal tape repair.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Trade paperback. Preface by Brom Weber. 426pp. Covers slightly rubbed, spine lightly tanned, very good. More than 400 of Crane's letters that range from his youth to just before his death; includes correspondence with Gorham Munson, Allen Tate, Gertrude Stein, Otto Kahn and others. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Toning on the pages else near fine in a very good dust jacket with creasing, shallow chips, and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 426pp. A couple tiny soil spots on bottom edge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light toning, nicks and small tears, and rippling on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Black and Gold edition. Good only in good only dustwrapper with water stains to the boards and dustwrapper causing the dustwrapper to adhere to the board.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First UK edition (date on title page). Sewn binding in full cloth-covered boards, iin dustjacket. A solid and attractive copy of this Oxford edition, following the American edition by two years. Real cloth-covered boards and sewn binding make this a very sturdy alternative to the Liveright edition. The spine is square and the hinges intact. Name and date on front flyleaf, else no marks. Tiny nick bottom edge two pages. A few rubbing marks to coth, and a little wear to the cloth at bottom edge. A few faint marks to fore-edge. Unclipped dustjacket has surface abrasions and edgewear, including a few small tears with creasing, with some shelf-soil showing on the back panel. The dye from the cloth has marked the inside of the dustjacket. B&W frontispiece photo of Crane by Walker Evans (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, thus. Rubbed through at the crown, a bit of spotting on the topedge, binding slightly cocked, thus very good in a very good dust jacket with lightly bumped spine ends, a bit of toning, and some chips along the topedge.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Blue wrappers. Octavo. 176pp. Yapped edges bumped, creased, and nicked, spine lightly cocked and sunned, very good. "Arthur Miller: The Strange Encounter" by Henry Popkin, "The Quiet Enemy" by Cecil Dawkins. Contributions by Rene Wellek, Calhoun Winton, Henry Popkin, Cecil Dawkins, James Dickey, James B. Hall, Daniel Huws, Arthur Gregor, Madison Jones, Daniel G. Hoffman, Denis Donoghue, Thomas Parkinson, Brom Weber, and Maynard Mack. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Foreword by Paul Bowles. 562pp. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear, and a barcode label on the verso.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Foreword by Paul Bowles. 562pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Blue wrappers. Octavo. 176pp. Yapped edges bumped, near fine in the original *Seawanee Review* clasp envelope. "Arthur Miller: The Strange Encounter" by Henry Popkin, "The Quiet Enemy" by Cecil Dawkins. Contributions by Rene Wellek, Calhoun Winton, Henry Popkin, Cecil Dawkins, James Dickey, James B. Hall, Daniel Huws, Arthur Gregor, Madison Jones, Daniel G. Hoffman, Denis Donoghue, Thomas Parkinson, Brom Weber, and Maynard Mack. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Heavily Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The imaged Word, it is, that holds; Hushed willows anchored in its glow. It is the unbetrayable reply; Whose accent no farewell can know. "Of the poets who came into prominence during the 1930's in America, none is more likely to achieve an immortality than Harold Hart Crane," said Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska in their history of American poetry. SUB-TITLE: 1916-1932. FRONTISPIECE: The frontispiece is taken from a photograph of Crane by Hervey Minns, a winner of international prizes, whom Crane found living in obscurity in Akron and began to tout to the art magazines, as told in his letters. CONTENTS: Preface; Chronology; PART ONE Ohio (1916-1922); PART TWO New York (1923-1925); PART THREE West Indies-Europe (1926-1930); PART FOUR Mexico (1931-1932); List of Correspondents; Index. SYNOPSIS: Here are 405 letters written by Hart Crane - who has been acclaimed as the greatest American poet since Whitman and Emily Dickinson - to prominent figures of the renascence of the 1920s. Among those addressed are Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Gaston Lachaise, and Otto Kahn. The letters trace the course of Crane's turbulent life from his confident youth to the stop at Havana before he jumped off the stern of a liner in the Caribbean. When he was 17, Crane wrote his father: "I realize . . . I am preparing for a fine life; that I have powers, which, if correctly balanced will enable me to mount to extraordinary latitudes." His powers did indeed mature and soon attracted the notice of Eugene O'Neill who declared that "Hart Crane's poems are profound and deep-seeking." Crane entered madly into the carousing spirit of the Nineteen Twenties. "Nothing could beat the hilarity of this place," he wrote his mother in 1925; "with about an omnibus full of people here from New York and a case of gin, to say nothing of jugs of marvellous hard cider . . . You should have seen the dances I did - one all painted up like an African cannibal . . . We went swimming at midnight, climbed trees, played blind man's buff, rode in wheel-barrows and gratified every caprice for three days." But in 1932 in Mexico on a Guggenheim Fellowship, Crane was critical of his roistering. "I'm just a careening idiot, with a talent for humor at times, and for insult and desecration at others." Three months later as the ship's whistle blew noon, he dove into the sea. In an epic poem, "The Bridge," Crane attempted to create a myth for America. In a long series of letters to Waldo Frank, he told about his progress with "The Bridge," and threw light upon his intentions. In another long series of letters to Gorham Munson he discussed many of his early poems which appeared in his first volume, White Buildings. Besides revealing much about himself, Crane's letters also trace the lineaments of his period. To Allen Tate, Selden Rodman, and many other friends, he wrote freely about his judgments on the literature and trends of the time. "The record of Crane's days," says Brom Weber who edited this book, "vibrates with an explosive terror . . . elated, wretched, violent, Rabelaisian." - and - Five years after Crane's death appeared the first biography of this genius. In 1948 came the second biography, Hart Crane: A Biographical and Critical Study, by Brom Weber, who studied the great mass of Crane correspondence in preparing to write it. He has now selected 405 letters for the definitive edition of Crane's letters. "Critic Weber," said Time, "is lucid, levelheaded, candid, and seems likely to become a very welcome addition to the small list of serious U.S. critics." Brom Weber graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1938. He has worked as a writer-editor for various government agencies and has taught at the Rand . . . Size.…