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CRANE, HART. 1899-1932. EVANS, WALKER, illus. The Bridge. A Poem. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. image 1
CRANE, HART. 1899-1932. EVANS, WALKER, illus. The Bridge. A Poem. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. image 2
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CRANE, HART. 1899-1932.
EVANS, WALKER, illus.
The Bridge. A Poem. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930.

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
New York

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CRANE, HART. 1899-1932.

EVANS, WALKER, illus. The Bridge. A Poem. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930.
4to (270 x 220 mm). Printed in red and black. With 3 photographs by Evans. Original white printed wrappers with glassine. Glassine chipped and torn, creases to spine.
Provenance: Walter and Dorothy Donneylly (1903-1994) (modernist bookplate).

FIRST EDITION OF CRANE'S MASTERPIECE, ONE OF THE SEMINAL AMERICAN POEMS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, LIMITED EDITION, no 246 of 200 numbered copies on Holland paper from a total edition of 283.
"What is imperishable in 'The Bridge' is not its lyric mourning, but its astonishing transformation of the sublime ode into an American epic, uneven certainly but beyond 'The Waste Land' in aspiration and accomplishment" (Harold Bloom in the introduction to The Complete Poems of Hart Crane 2000).
This publication also marks the debut of Walker Evans as a photographer. Evans had only just started taking photographs around the time of his chance meeting with Crane in 1928 under the Brooklyn Bridge. Crane with his notebook and Evans with his vest-pocket camera were natural confederates and their collaboration on The Bridge remains one of the most powerful of the past century. Connolly 100 64; Minkoff A32; Schwartz & Schweik A2.

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