The Bridge: A Poem

by Hart Crane

illustrated by Walker Evans 

First edition.  New York:  Horace Liveright, 1930 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Navy superfine covers have blind stamped border, gilt title. 
• Boards show some bumping, edgewear, surface flaw on front cover.  Corners are bumped.  See photos.  
• Spine has gilt text dimmed and is a little faded, with softened ends.
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps are tanned, have some pencil marks, bookseller sticker.  
• Frontispiece is a photograph by Walker Evans. 
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some marginal toning.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block has untrimmed edges fore and foot. 
• PS2024.0321

82 pages. 6 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches

A very good copy of the second collection of poems by American poet Hart Crane (1899-1932).  The Bridge expressed Crane's ambition to synthesize America, and he intended it to be an uplifting counter to The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. 

The bridge photograph facing the title page is by Walker Evans.

Please see photos. More photos available upon request.

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