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No Place, 1979. First edition. Wrappers, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, stapled. Very good.

[San Francisco]: Adrian Wilson, 1947. First edition. Cover title; 9 sheets ; 31 x 23 cm. Issued within two printed covers. Full title page is on inner cover. The first book by poet James Broughton, and the first book printed by Adrian Wilson. Broughton, who had written some plays that the Wilsons' theatre goup, The Interplayers, had produced, wanted… Read more about this item

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1974. First edition. Rivers, Larry. Wrappers, stapled. Cover design by Larry Rivers. Fine.

[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. letter from the perpetrator are included. See Gallup C1885.… Read more about this item

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 name misspelled. For the balance of the run, the… Read more about this item

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.

London: The Calendar Press, 1927. Wrappers, near fine. Contains Crane;'s "National Winter Garden," "Southern Cross". Schwarz and Schweik B 67, B100.

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 Casseres. Young 2393. Kiefer Catalogue 1065. 8vo, 130pp. Full… Read more about this item

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition. Evans, Walker. Quarto, original white printed wrappers, copy number 104 out of 200 on Holland paper. Wrappers fine, just a bit of wear to the spine of the original glassine, original silver-paper slipcase worn, missing its ends and with a bit bent down and peeling. [Schwartz & Schweik A 2].

London: Boriswood, 1938. Second edition (first British edition). Grey cloth, very good, without dust jacket. Schwartz & Schweik A 6.

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition. Evans, Walker. Quarto, original white wrappers, original printed dust jacket, original glassine jacket, untrimmed. Housed in publisher's original silver foil-covered slipcase. Custom boxed. Copy number 121 of 200 copies on Holland paper (from a total edition of only 283 copies). This copy has Crane's bookplate, version "C" (K. Lohf, Proof, 3,… Read more about this item

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. First edition. Evans, Walker. No. 175 of 200 copies (from a total edition of only 283 copies) on Holland paper, printed in red and black. Printed for Harry and Caresse Crosby at the Black Sun Press. A most desirable association copy. The Crosbys visited Crane in New York in late 1929. A few… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Mass: The Ibex Press, 1968. First edition. Scott, Laurence. Original printed wrappers, fine. One of 250 copies. Frontispiece by Laurence Scott, signed in pencil.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American edition. Evans, Walker. Blue boards, a near-fine copy, without dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece by Walker Evans. An amazing association copy, inscribed on the front end paper by Hart Crane to Walker Evans, whose three small photographs illustrated the first edition. To Walker Evans, - / 'clean animosity, - clear name." / from… Read more about this item

New York: Liveright, 1933. First edition. 8vo, original dark maroon cloth. First edition. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with touch of wear at head and tail of spine panel and several corners, several tiny closed tears at edges, and small transparent paper tape reinforcements at head and tail of spine panel. An attractive copy. Schwartz and… Read more about this item

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 "Boni & Liveright" until 1928, when it was changed… Read more about this item

New York: Liveright, 1933. First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (spine very slightly faded). FIRST EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED PRESENTATION ISSUE, number 1 of 50 copies. These presentation copies were specially bound in brown silk, with black endpapers, and contain a press-numbered colophon on p.[ii].Not issued with dust jacket. Copy of Grace Hart Crane,… Read more about this item

New York: Liveright, 1933. First edition. First Edition, second Issue. 8vo., original maroon cloth titled in gilt and ruled in blind, front inner hinge shows a crack. This book belonged to Betty Crane Madden. From the collection of Vivian Pemberton, Emeritus Professor of English, Kent State University. [Schwartz & Schweik A 4.2].

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American edition. Photographic frontispiece by Walker Evans. Thin tall 8vo, dark blue smooth cloth boards stamped in gilt at spine and front cover. Very good copy. 82pp. With Walker Evans's famous photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge frontispiece signed by Evans under the photograph, and an original print of the Evans portrait of Crane,… Read more about this item

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 few who were not," (Unterecker, p.472). Housed in 1/4… Read more about this item