CRANE, Hart

White Buildings

First edition, second issue with Allen Tate's name corrected on the titlepage. Foreword by Allen Tate. Near fine in an internally repaired, very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown. Hart Crane's own copy with his later ownership Signature: "Hart Crane, Aug. '31" and his bookplate on the front pastedown. Apparently Hart Crane's mother either gave away or sold some of his bookplates shortly after his death to the bookseller Samuel Loveman, thus resulting in occasional "association copies" surfacing. However, all of the books that we have seen signed by him were either inscribed to a specific individual, or in the case of a simple signature (with the exception of the signed edition of The Bridge -- only 50 copies), were from his personal library.

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