WALKER EVANS
WALKER EVANS The Bridge. A Poem . Text by Hart Crane. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Quarto (270 x 220 mm). Three photogravures. Original printed wrappers (slightest fading to spine); glassine dust jacket; publisher's silver paper-covered slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 10 of only 50 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by Crane, from a total edition of 283. WITH THREE FINE PHOTOGRAVURES BY WALKER EVANS The Bridge , called "cubism in poetry" when it was initially reviewed in The New York Times , stands as one of the great epics of 20th-century poetry. Connolly writes that of the poems "some of them... are near perfect and the whole allegory is a masterpiece of neo-romanticism" ( The Modern Movement , p.62). Crane befriended Walker Evans in 1928 when, struggling to finish his epic poem, he moved to Brooklyn. Connolly, The Modern Movement 64; Schwarz and Schweik A2.
WALKER EVANS
WALKER EVANS The Bridge. A Poem . Text by Hart Crane. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Quarto (270 x 220 mm). Three photogravures. Original printed wrappers (slightest fading to spine); glassine dust jacket; publisher's silver paper-covered slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 10 of only 50 copies on Japanese Vellum signed by Crane, from a total edition of 283. WITH THREE FINE PHOTOGRAVURES BY WALKER EVANS The Bridge , called "cubism in poetry" when it was initially reviewed in The New York Times , stands as one of the great epics of 20th-century poetry. Connolly writes that of the poems "some of them... are near perfect and the whole allegory is a masterpiece of neo-romanticism" ( The Modern Movement , p.62). Crane befriended Walker Evans in 1928 when, struggling to finish his epic poem, he moved to Brooklyn. Connolly, The Modern Movement 64; Schwarz and Schweik A2.
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