White Buildings
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926.
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Hardcover. First edition, first issue with Allen Tate's name spelled incorrectly on the integral title page. Introduction by Allen Tate. Edges of the boards rubbed, a very good copy in an internally repaired, fair dustwrapper lacking half of the spinewith a half-inch loss at the crown, housed in custom cloth clamshell case. Crane's first book. One of 500 copies of the first edition (encompassing both issues), with seemingly a very small number of those in the first issue. The last copy of the first issue to appear at auction brought $8000 in 2002.
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Hart Crane
birth name: Harold Hart Crane
born: 7/21/1899
died: 4/27/1932
Biography
American poet who celebrated the richness of life in lyrics of visionary intensity. His most noted work, The Bridge (1930), was an attempt to create an epic myth of the American experience. As a coherent epic it has been deemed a failure, but many of its individual lyrics are judged to be among the best American poems of the 20th century. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore