signed first edition Hardcover
1926 · New York
by CRANE, Hart
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, second issue. Foreword by Allen Tate. Edges of the boards a little rubbed and worn, some scrapes and small stains on the front fly, very good in very good dustwrapper lacking the top ½" of the spine. In a fine custom quarter morocco clamshell case. Inscribed by Crane to his close friend, the poet Wilbur Underwood: "For Wilbur Underwood with affection always. Hart Crane. January 1927." A few pencil notes and marks in the margin, likely in the hand of Underwood. Underwood, whose archive is at the Library of Congress, published at least a half-dozen volumes of poetry and (truncated)