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First edition, second state, with the corrected title-page, spelling Allen Tate s name correctly, as a cancel. Hart Crane s first book. 500 copies were printed and only around 50 with the Allan spelling were sent out to reviewers. Half-title; title-page with: White Buildings: Poems by Hart Crane With a Foreword by Allen Tate, B&L design, Boni & Liveright, 1926, and no other dates on the copyright page. Dedication page to Waldo Frank; page with a quotation from Rimbaud; list of previous appearances. Xix, [1]-58. 5 � in. x 7 7/8 in. Black cloth spine with gilt titling, with tan and black textured paper over boards. Dark blue dust-jacket with lighter designs and lettering. The dust-jacket has been laminated for preservation by a former owner. The spine ends, cover corners and edges show light wear, fading to the gilt lettering on the spine. A near fine copy in a laminated dust-jacket. This copy has the bookplate of Alfred Young Fisher, a poet who was a professor at Smith College and was married to the well known gastronomic writer M. F. K. Fisher, and who also taught poetry to Sylvia Plath, adding a special and unique interest to this copy. Titles of the poems: Legend, Black Tambourine, Emblems of Conduct, My Grandmother s Love Letters, Sunday Morning Apples, Praise for an Urn, Garden Abstract, Stark Major, Chaplinesque, Pastorale, In Shadow, The Fernery, North Labrador, Repose of Rivers, Paraphrase, Possessions, Lachrymae Christi, Passage, The Wine Menagerie, Recitative, For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen, At Melville s Tomb, Voyages I, II, III, IV, V, VI. Schwartz & Schweik A 1.1; pp. 3-7.