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Crossed Silver: Poems in Poetry, Drawing, and Geometry
by R.H. Crane
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Milne, McKinnon, and Christie, 1992. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 6 x 8.25in. 30pp. Publisher's cloth boards. A review copy with a letter from the publisher laid-in. FINE/AS NEW in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself is flawless. The dust jacket shows the slightest hint of shelf rubbing, else Fine/As New. As pictured.
Synopsis
This work that is called “highly original” by literary critic John Bayley of Oxford University, “profound” by philosopher Sir Peter Strawson of Oxford University, “a new experiment” by art theorist Michael Camille of the University of Chicago, and “lovely” by mathematician Donal O’Shea of Mount Holyoke College is a work that brings together thinkers from differing fields that rarely – if ever - intersect with the same book. Creating its own place, refusing any easy categorization, it is a work that has drawn prestigious minds in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, and mathematics. “It marks the unusual and first combining of poetry, drawing, and geometry” as writes the Financial Times of London. Crane’s ink drawings on paper for the book are done completely by hand. Is the writing more important or the art? The answer is difficult to arrive at: “Crane’s is truly a writing at the boundaries, an art-making at its verbal best” as writes literary and arts theorist Marjorie Perloff of Stanford University. Crossed Silver is a work that requires time to reflect upon, that took 7 years for Crane to complete.
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Details
- Bookseller
- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30462
- Title
- Crossed Silver: Poems in Poetry, Drawing, and Geometry
- Author
- R.H. Crane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Milne, McKinnon, and Christie
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1992
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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