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1960. Includes correspondence from John S. Van E. Kohn (Seven Gables Bookshop), Brom Weber, Andreas Brown (Gotham Book Mart), plus offprints of reviews and articles about Crane. An instructor of English at Rutgers University and later a professor of English and American literature, Professor Birss was a noted Herman Melville scholar and one of the founders of the Melville Society. He was a bibliographer and collector of letters written by famous people as well as inscribed first editions and rare first editions. His collection included a wide variety of material on Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe and Hart Crane. In addition, his collection of more than 3,000 lithographs, photographs and newspaper clippings included iconographies of many famous writers. Professor Birss was nationally recognized for his knowledge of first editions when he was asked to contribute to Merle Johnson's "American First Editions," published in 1936, on the works of Crane, James Farrell, Joseph Rodman Drake, Katherine…
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Research files of the noted Crane scholar John H. Birss
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A Stephen Crane Collection
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Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Library, 1948. Cloth, endpapers slightly spotted, otherwise fine. First edition, one of 350 copies. Contains the first publication of an important letter from Crane to his brother, as well as a useful bibliographic description of the George Mathhew Adams collection. Inscribed by West.
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The Two Hundredth Book.; A bibliography of the books published by The Book Club of California 1958-1992
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First edition. Cloth backed boards, corners bumped, else fine. One of 500 copies.
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