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CRANE, HART. 1899-1932. White Buildings: Poems. [New York]: Boni & Liveright, 1926.
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CRANE, HART. 1899-1932.
White Buildings: Poems. [New York]: Boni & Liveright, 1926.
With a Foreword by Allan [sic] Tate. Original cloth-backed decorated paper over boards; dust jacket. Custom clamshell box. A little creasing near jacket folds including to spine panel, light rubbing to volume spine; a fine copy.
Provenance: James Loughlin (1914-1997), founder of New Directions Press (bookplate); Roger Rechler (his sale, Christie's New York, October 11, 2002, lot 55).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE OF THE POET'S FIRST BOOK, JAMES LOUGHLIN'S COPY. This copy bears the rare uncancelled title page with Allen Tate's name mis-spelled. The entire edition of White Buildings was only 500 copies, and the large majority of those bear a replacement title-page. It is thought that only the 50 copies sent to reviewers bore the original title. The mistake was then caught and rectified for the remaining 450.
Crane's first book took a circuitous path to publication. It was first declined by Samuel Jacobs of the Golden Eagle Press (who published E.E. Cummings' Tulips and Chimneys) and then by Harcourt. Horace Liveright of Boni & Liveright took it on, but with the stipulation that Eugene O'Neill write a foreword. O'Neill initially agreed, but several months passed and no foreword was produced. Liveright feared the poems were too difficult after all. However, the poet Allen Tate, a friend of all concerned, offered to write the foreword under O'Neill's name. In the end, it appeared under Tate's own name and with a blurb by O'Neill on the front panel of the dust jacket. Schwartz & Schweik A1.1.
With a Foreword by Allan [sic] Tate. Original cloth-backed decorated paper over boards; dust jacket. Custom clamshell box. A little creasing near jacket folds including to spine panel, light rubbing to volume spine; a fine copy.
Provenance: James Loughlin (1914-1997), founder of New Directions Press (bookplate); Roger Rechler (his sale, Christie's New York, October 11, 2002, lot 55).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE OF THE POET'S FIRST BOOK, JAMES LOUGHLIN'S COPY. This copy bears the rare uncancelled title page with Allen Tate's name mis-spelled. The entire edition of White Buildings was only 500 copies, and the large majority of those bear a replacement title-page. It is thought that only the 50 copies sent to reviewers bore the original title. The mistake was then caught and rectified for the remaining 450.
Crane's first book took a circuitous path to publication. It was first declined by Samuel Jacobs of the Golden Eagle Press (who published E.E. Cummings' Tulips and Chimneys) and then by Harcourt. Horace Liveright of Boni & Liveright took it on, but with the stipulation that Eugene O'Neill write a foreword. O'Neill initially agreed, but several months passed and no foreword was produced. Liveright feared the poems were too difficult after all. However, the poet Allen Tate, a friend of all concerned, offered to write the foreword under O'Neill's name. In the end, it appeared under Tate's own name and with a blurb by O'Neill on the front panel of the dust jacket. Schwartz & Schweik A1.1.

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