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White Buildings
by CRANE, Hart
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, second issue. Foreword by Allen Tate. Edges of the boards a little rubbed and worn, some scrapes and small stains on the front fly, very good in very good dustwrapper lacking the top ½" of the spine. In a fine custom quarter morocco clamshell case. Inscribed by Crane to his close friend, the poet Wilbur Underwood: "For Wilbur Underwood with affection always. Hart Crane. January 1927." A few pencil notes and marks in the margin, likely in the hand of Underwood. Underwood, whose archive is at the Library of Congress, published at least a half-dozen volumes of poetry and was associated with the Decadent Movement. He was a veteran of the homosexual underground scene of the period and is perhaps best known as Hart Crane's mentor and confidant. One of the best sources of information on Underwood is Clive Fisher's biography *Hart Crane: A Life*.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 432064
- Title
- White Buildings
- Author
- CRANE, Hart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Poetry, AmerLit20thCent, Photography, AssociationCopy, FirstBook
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography; Poetry;
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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