[Rarebooks] Stephen Crane

[Mark Stirling]

For Sale from Up-Country Letters, South Lake Tahoe, California:

 

Linson, Corwin K. (Knapp).   My Stephen Crane.  (No place):  Syracuse University Press, 1958.  First edition.  Original cloth, dust jacket.  "Linson's memoirs have extraordinary importance" (Stallman, 1972, p.430).  Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper as follows:  "To Donald P. Bean, Director , Syracuse University Press:  A foreword:  This is not a biography.  As I was closely associated with Stephen Crane through the too short years of his life, and as there is no one left of those who knew him who might cover the same ground, the record has been put in the following pages.  With sincere regard, Corwin Knapp Linson.  May 26, 1958.  Linson was a painter;  he uses his oil of Crane as a frontisportrait.  First appearance of several letters and clears up some controversies of Crane biographers and bibliographers.  Fine copy in a Very Good jacket (creases to top edge).    $100

 

 

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