Details
WALKER EVANS and HART CRANE
The Bridge, A Poem
Paris: The Black Sun Press, deluxe edition, 1930. A book of poetry by Hart Crane. Illustrated with 3 photogravures of the Brooklyn Bridge by Walker Evans. Each approximately 3 1/8 x 1 7/8in. Numbered 218 from the limited edition of 200 numbered copies on Holland paper, 50 numbered copies on Japanese vellum signed by the author, 25 review copies hors commerce and 8 special copies marked A to H. The letterpress text and photogravures printed on Holland paper. 4to, original publisher's printed letterpress paper covers in red and black hand-set Dorique type with original glassine wrapper, foil covered slipcase. This deluxe edition includes an outer folding cover of siena linen covered boards, the whole contained in a brown leather impressed decorative slipcase with gilt lettering on the spine.
Literature
A Bibliography of The Black Sun Press, by George Robert Minkoff, introduction by Caresse Crosby, Great Neck, N.Y.: G.R. Minkoff, 1970, entry A-32; see The Black Sun, A Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff, for additional information concerning the production of The Bridge; and see Walker Evans, The Hungry Eye, Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, New York: Harry N. Abrams, pp. 28-33 and Connolly, The Modern Movement 64, for an analysis of Crane's ode to the Brooklyn Bridge.
