The Bridge
Presentation/Association Copy,
inscribed by Hart Crane to Charmion von Wiegand
First American edition of Crane’s monumental work, an extraordinary presentation copy with an especially memorable association inscribed by Crane to his close friend, Charmion von Wiegand, a “leading mid-20th-century Geometric Abstract painter,” who was key in aiding Crane’s artistic vision for publication of The Bridge. Crane warmly inscribed this copy in the year of publication with two lines from this work’s “Powhatan’s Daughter”: “For Charmion—Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet’s wing, laid on her hair. With enduring affection from Hart June ‘30,” scarce in original dust jacket with photogravure of the Brooklyn Bridge from a photograph by Walker Evans. $35,000. | More...
The Works
Robert Burns
Splendid 1834 set of Burns' complete works, with lovely steel-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Riviere & Son with elaborate gilt emblems on the front and rear boards. $3200. | More...
Black
Inscribed by Benjamin Franklin Gardner
First edition of Gardner's critically praised first and only book of poetry, inscribed by him, "In appreciation of a very Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance. Best wishes, T— P— From Benj. F. Gardner 10-8-38 (On a train, enroute from Grand Island to Omaha, Nebr.)." $1200. | More...
Ideas of Order
The Stanley Burnshaw copy, signed by Wallace Stevens
Signed limited first edition of the rare second book by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Wallace Stevens—"no poet gives us more to think about or greater reward for thinking"—one of only ten review copies (of 165 total), an exceptional copy in fragile original wrappers. The copy of Stanley Burnshaw, the New Masses magazine critic and the author of a notoriously negative review of this work, featuring his pencil owner signature. $12,500. | More...
Complete Writings
Walt Whitman
"The Book-Lover's Camden Edition," number 259 of only 500 numbered sets, with 40 striking photogravures and etchings with printed tissue guards, including 22 portraits. $4500. | More...
Duineser Elegien
Rainer Maria Rilke
Deluxe limited large-paper first edition of one of the greatest volumes of poetry of the 20th century, number 83 of only 300 copies, this copy one of the first 100 copies specially bound in full green gilt-decorated morocco at the Wiener Werkstadt. $12,000. | More...
Selected Poems
Signed by Marianne Moore
First edition, signed by Moore on the half title, and with textual corrections in her hand on pages 39 and 86. $950. | More...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Julia Ward Howe
First printing of Howe's famous Civil War poem, written the morning after she heard Union soldiers singing "John Brown's Body," in the February 1862 issue of Atlantic Monthly. $950. | More...
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