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  "The passion spreads in wide tongues, choked and slow, meeting the gulf, hosanna silently below": First edition of Hart Crane's landmark modernist epic the bridge; inscribed by him to close friend Bob Thompson

  CRANE, Hart.

  The Bridge: A Poem.

  New York: Horace Liveright, 1930.

  First American edition of Crane's landmark modernist epic. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with three photographs by Walter Evans. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper one month after publication, "For Bob Thompson, from his friend always- Hart Crane, Brooklyn, April 30." The recipient, Robert Thompson, was a close friend of Crane's. During  the early part of 1930, Thompson and Crane spent what John Unterecker described as "wild evenings" in New York. Thompson was "a good drinking companion whom Hart in the summer would recommend to Caresse Crosby as 'a former sailor who has got tired of office work and expects to hit the deck again for awhile.'" With Thompson's inscription to the pastedown recording the details of Crane's suicide, "April 28,1932, S/S Orizaba, Capt. Blackadder." In very good condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Crane presentation copies are of the utmost rarity, and this personal and significant association is of exceptional desirability.

  Price: $22,500.00     Item Number: 123618

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