Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

The Suicide

Paris: Carrefour, 1934. First limited edition. Hardcover. 1/100. 8vo. 47pp. Cardboard's in original dust wrapper as published. Front board detached but present. Staining and discoloration on dust wrapper, 3 numbers handwritten in blue ink on back of dw. "The Suicide is in memory of a poet who drowned himself. His skull recounts the three levels of experience he remembered the three times he rose: a bundle of fears; a rock of faith; an anemia of reason. In the culminative wave, the skull tells of a plague that was lifted into the suicide's memory along with the death of his old self. A dirge unites it to statistics." Lowenfeld's poem about Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932), the American poet who committed suicide by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba into the Gulf of Mexico during its return to New York. This book, while complete in itself, is from an unfinished work: Some Deaths; Elegy in Memory of D. H. Lawrence. Original order forms of this edition & 3 other works by Lowenfels from publisher laid in. Minor creasing and pulling to forms. Dw and binding in fair, interior in very good condition. Scarce with dust wrapper. g. Item #19904

Price: $175.00

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