The Bridge by Hart Crane, Walker Evans, First Edition (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Horace Liveright, NY, 1930, 1st edition, 2nd printing stated, 82 pages, b&w photo by Walker Evans frontispiece, 6-1/2"x 8-7/8", hardcover, dark blue cloth with blind embossed rule, gilt titles on front and spine, corners bumped and lightly worn, spine ends bumped and frayed, light edge wear along spine, spine titles dulled, text block deckle edged, no dust jacket, front paste down rough cut by binder at fore-edge, pages yellowing around edges, otherwise contents clean and tight, book very good- (VG-/no dj) 5707 [n0324LB].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. 1st Thus. The Limited Edition Club's issue 739 of 2000 and signed by the artist, the photographer Richard Benson; one double-page spread and four single-page, printed in three tones. 9 x 12 inches, 96 pages. Design by Stephen Stinehour, text in 14 pt Monotype Dante with 4 pts of leading. Text composed and printed by Michael & Winifred Bixler; the photographs reproduced by The Meriden Gravure Company. The soft white smooth finish stock was specially produced for this edition at the Mohawk Mill. The endleaves have been printed in deep blue with a paste-paper design by Carrol J. Blinn. The binding is in silvery gray cloth imported from the Netherlands, stamped in dark blue on the shelfback and in blind on the front cover. This edition bound at The Stinehour Press in Stinehour, Vermont. The original edition was published in 1931 with Walker Evans providing the photography. Hart Crane was born in Ohio in 1899 and died in the Caribbean Sea in 1932 in a mysterious disappearence. He was one of America's greatest poet of the twentieth century. In his lifetime he published just three major books, White Buildings, The Bridge, and The Collected Poems. Hart Crane was a personal friend of Frederico Garcia Larco. Listed in Cyril Connolly's 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement. This a very fine copy in a custom blue pictoral slipcase. By the Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Blue cloth titled in gilt. First US edition. Just a hint of shelfwear, PO name to front pastedown. PO has taped a blurb to the ffep and a review to the rfep. Textblock lightly toned. Frontis photo by Walker Evans. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; iv, 82 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. Requires a signature at delivery, non-negotiable. Slight bumping and rubbing to cloth. Solid binding and clean text. B/w frontispiece photo by Walker Evans. Heavy offsetting to several pages (caused by old newspaper clippings, now removed). No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 82 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Walker Evans (illustrator). 1st Edition. Navy superfine covers have blind stamped border, gilt title. Boards show some bumping, edgewear, surface flaw on front cover. Corners are bumped. See photos. Spine has gilt text dimmed and is a little faded, with softened ends. Binding is secure. Pastedowns and feps are tanned, have some pencil marks, bookseller sticker. Frontispiece is a photograph by Walker Evans. Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some marginal toning. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block has untrimmed edges fore and foot.** PS2024.0321** 82 pages. 6 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches** A very good copy of the second collection of poems by American poet Hart Crane (1899-1932). The Bridge expressed Crane's ambition to synthesize America, and he intended it to be an uplifting counter to The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.** The bridge photograph facing the title page is by Walker Evans.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009926"**.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Number 63 from the total edition of 284 copies. Modern red calf gilt, the original wrappers bound in, cloth slipcase. 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (27.5 x 22 cm); printed in red and black, with 3 fine photogravures by Walker Evans. Light thumbsoiling to wrappers and few spots within but generally clean, the final plate and tissue guard detached. First edition of this collection of Crane's seminal modernist poems The Bridge. Crane met photographer Walker Evans by chance in the shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge and this work constitutes one of Evans' earliest publications. Connolly 100 64; Minkoff A32.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. One of 50 copies on Japanese Vellum, signed by Hart Crane. Contents completely fine, a very fresh copy. Covers generally bright and clean (see photos), but the spine tips are dulled where the glassine is also worn. There is a professionally repaired thin paper-split down the spine, now manifesting as a crease (see photo). During the repair, thin paper reinforcement was added underneath, so that the book can now be laid open flat -- and actually enjoyed. The book is also now supported by a thick mylar wrap, which makes it easier to handle. A modernist highspot at a very attractive price.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Crane is a singular figure in American poetry in that he sought a Romantic voice in the era of high Modernism. 'The Bridge' is easily his most significant work, his answer to Eliot's 'The Waste Land' or the Cantos of Ezra Pound, and one which finds hope and optimism in his century where Eliot saw only despair, which is sadly ironic given Eliot's long life and Crane's suicide at 32. This is one of Black Sun Press' typically beautiful productions, one of an edition of 284. Includes the original slipcase which is a bit damaged, and is otherwise an excellent copy of this scarce and much loved title, made particularly special by the inclusion of illustrative photographs by Crane's friend, the legendary photographer Walker Evans.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited Edition. #118/200 Numbered Copies printed on Holland Paper, bound in French fold cream wrappers printed in black and red, spine slightly toned, in clear glassine (browned and nicked at edges), in silver-sided slipcase. Slipcase is restored. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Unpaginated. A lyric epic and paean to America at the height of the industrial age, brimming with rhetorical flights and eccentric visionary imagery. Lovely copy of a scarce and fragile book. Q15820.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition, after the limited, Black Sun edition. Half-title; frontispiece with black & white Walker Evans photo of Brooklyn Bridge; title-page in red & black, 1930 copyright date on the reverse; page with a quotation from the Book of Job; Contents. 6 ¼ in. x 8 7/8 in., 82 pp. Printed on laid paper with watermark design and word: Utopian. Dark blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and front cover. Dark blue dust-jacket with black titling, Walker Evans photo on the front panel, reviews of "White Buildings" on the back panel. Two dollars fifty price present. The lower spine of the book shows some scattered mottling or spotting, with a few similar spots to the back cover. The dust-jacket which shows fading & edge wear, and some of the lower dust-jacket spine lacking, was laminated by a former owner for preservation. A few pages are unopened. Titles: Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge; Ave Maria; Powhatan's Daughter: The Harbor Dawn, Van Winkle, The River, The Dance, Indiana; Cutty Sark; Cape Hatteras; Three Songs: Southern Cross, National Winter Garden, Virginia; Quaker Hill; The Tunnel; Atlantis. Schwartz & Schweik A 3.1 p. 20.

Paris: The Black Sun Press. 1930. 8vo. Original printed wrappers with fold-over flaps enclosed in a glassine dust jacket, housed in the publisherās silver paper-covered slipcase; tiny loss to bottom of front wrapper; slipcase splitting along top and bottom edges; internally fine. First edition, one of the original 284 copies of Craneās poetical masterpiece.Hart Crane is a singular figure in American poetry, seeking a Romantic voice in the era of high Modernism. The Bridge is undeniably his most significant work; his answer to T.S. Eliotās The Waste Land and the Cantos of Ezra Pound. It is one which finds hope and optimism in a century where Eliot saw only despair, sadly ironic given Eliotās long life and Craneās tragic suicide at 32. This is one of Black Sun Pressā typically beautiful productions, one of a total edition of 284, made particularly special by the inclusion of illustrative photographs by Craneās friend, the legendary photographer Walker Evans.The Black Sun Press was an English-language publishing house based in Paris. Founded in 1927 by American expatriates Harry and Caresse Crosby, it published the early works of influential literary figures such as James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and Hemingway. The books, all handset, were typographically impeccable and wonderfully bound. The Black Sun Press was one of the longest running of its kind, closing only in 1970 following Caresse Crosbyās death.Minkoff A-32.

First American Edition. First American edition, revised from the Paris edition published by Black Sun Press. [iv], 82 pp. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth ruled in blind, with titles in gilt on spine and upper board. Near Fine with hardly any wear, pages slightly toned with age, lacking jacket. An attractive copy. An epic modernist poem inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge, the New York City landmark that's changed hands in the minds of people so many times it deserves to adorn today's cryptocurrency, if such a thing were possible. The photographic frontispiece is by the poet's buddy, Walker Evans.

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.