Search Results: Hart Crane from Berthoff Books

Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 146 pages, with Index, Selected Bibliography, and biographical chronology; illustrated with three drawings of Hart Crane by John Johns on b&w plates. Published in the American Authors and Critics Series. Crown 8vo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"), red cloth with black lettering on spine, little wear except fraying of rear board bottom corer, foxing to top edge, binding tight, in unclipped DJ with shelf wear, small chip to rear panel at bottom corner. Name of former owner and date Feb. 1964 written on ffep; pages, printed on semi-gloss stock, remain bright and unmarked.

University of Illinois Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 315 pages, with index. 8vo, blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine and decoration on front board, light shelf wear, light soil and incipient foxing to top edge and end papers, with a few spots or smudges on pages. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, a friend of Sherman Paul and author of Hart Crane: A Reintroduction (U. of Minnesota, 1989); his underscoring and marginalia - criticisms and queries - on approximately 35 pages and rear end papers.

Ohio State University Press, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 152 pages, with Index to Names and Titles, Index to Repositories and Collections, separate sections for the major works, checklists of letters from and to Hart Crane, illustrated with seven images of typescript drafts and worksheets on eight b&w double-sided plates. Scholarly compendium lists the location of these mss. First in the series Calendars of American Literary Manuscripts. 8vo, black boards with brick red quarter, gilt lettering on black inset on spine, barely worn with sharp corners, a little foxing to top edge, in unclipped DJ with wear to corners and light soil, 3/4" tear and surface losses to front panel. Pencilled bookstore notations on ffep and rear pastedown, pages bright and unmarked.

M. J. Minard - lettres modernes, 1965. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 152 pages avec bibliographie, chronologie. Small paperback (11.6 x 18 cm), wraps lightly rubbed and soiled, bookstore sticker on back cover. Pages bright and unmarked.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 73 pages, with bibliography. University of Nebraska studies: new series no. 33. 6" x 9" in patterned wraps, little wear, slight age toning and "gratis" stamp to wraps.

University of Illinois Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 282 pages, with index, appendices on chronology of composition of two others poems - "Repose of Rivers" and "O Carib Isle!" 8vo, brick cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, corners sharp, light foxing and dust soil to top edge, other edges and pages bright, binding tight, in DJ with little wear, only slightly rumpled at crown and front top corner, crease in front flap. Bookstore price in pencil on ffep, no marks observed to pages; not from a library.

The Visionary Company, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. 162 pages, illustrated with b&w photos and art reproductions including fold-out of Peter Blume's The Eternal City. Summer 1981; formerly the Hart Crane Newsletter. Includes Caroline Gordon-Sally Wood correspondence, an interview with Malcolm Cowley, poems, an essay on The Dial. Trade paperback-size, cover reproduction of "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold" (quotation from William Carlos Williams poem) by Charles Henry Demuth, wraps lightly worn, top edges a little dust-soiled. Pages bright with no writing or marks observed.

The Visionary Company, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. 186 pages, illustrated with b&w drawings by Crane and various artists' portraits of him and one fold-out art reproduction - Tasso's Oak by Peter Blume. Spring 1982; formerly the Hart Crane Newsletter. Remembrances (including by Malcolm Cowley), poems, critical essays, book reviews. Trade paperback-size, wraps lightly worn, scuffed, rubbed. Set in typewriter font, pages bright with no writing or marks observed.