The Bridge; A Poem
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, 82pp; blue cloth. Covers rubbed and with a few marks; very good in a lightly chipped and spine faded dust jacket (likely supplied) with a few neat tape mends to the underside; housed in a custom slipcase. Item #207672
An excellent presentation copy, inscribed by Crane on the front flyleaf to his old Cleveland friend and drinking companion Kathryn Kenney and her husband: "For Kay and Nick - with the most affectionate regards of the 'the last bear shot drinking in the Dakotas' Hart Crane, Brooklyn, '30" The quotation in Crane's inscription is a line from "The River," a section of "Powhatan's Daughter" contained in this volume. (The inscription was badly mangled by Christies' cataloguers when this book was sold as part of the collection of Roger Rechler in 2002). Crane clearly identified with this line, as he had used it previously in an inscription in a copy of White Buildings a year earlier. Schwartz & Schweik A3.
Price: $30,000.00