Black Sun Press: circa late 1920s. 24 x 16cm. on laid paper. Printed in red and black on laid paper. With the author's name and with the Black Sun logo................ “Imprison me not in a winding sheet. Command me no coffin. Bury me not in the ground. Coffins, hearses, cemeteries..... More
Paris: Albert Messein, 1926. 8vo. 10.7 x 16.4. Original publisher's stiff vellum with watered end leaves. and hand lettered spine. One of 100 numbered copies on laid Arches. Rust colored wrappers bound in.... OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1496331: Notes: Publisher's device printed in red on t.p "First published in..... More
Paris: Black Sun Press, MCMXXXI. 4to. 18 x 23cm. Original wraps. One of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper. Volume IV of "The Collected Poems of Harry Crosby.".... Caresse published this work 2 years after Harry killed his lover Josephine Rotch and himself... Crosby revered Rimbaud, and with Rimbaud’s self-deregulation..... More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, MCMXXXII. 4to. 17.7 x 23cm. VIII, 312, [2]pp. Original publisher's half tree calf; spine repaired and rubbed...One of 125 unnumbered copies on Navarre paper. Photogravure frontispiece dated 1921, and signed, possibly by David Bachrach (1845-1921), founder of Bachrach Brothers Photography Studio in Baltimore, Maryland in..... More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, MCMXXVIII and MCMXXIX. Large 8vo. 15.5 x 24cm. 2 volumes in one: First Series: [8], 141, [7], [2 blank leaves]; Second Series: [10], 104, [4], [1 blank leaf]....Very good. Three-quarter contemporary red morocco; wraps bound in... One of 44 copies with a color drawing by..... More
Paris: Éditions Narcisse, MCMXXVII. Large 8vo. 16.1 x 24.9 cm. Original wraps and gold chemise with red silk ties (one tie now shorter)...One of 44 numbered copies on Imperial Japan paper.... Crease on cover... Minkoff A-3(d) ... OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 960107655: "First published in October 1925." "Il a...... More
Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1945. Reproduction. 40.5 x 30.2cm. Marginal tears with slight loss a letter.... As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby. ... Harry Crosby – self indulgent socialite, tortured poet, wealthy mystic …. a playboy who lived his life with reckless abandon –..... More
Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress in red on slate paper. 40.5 x 30.2cm. Marginal tears... As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby. ... Harry Crosby – self indulgent socialite, tortured poet, wealthy mystic …. a playboy who lived his life with reckless abandon –..... More
Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Reproduction of the photograph by Crosby and 3pp. text. . 40.5 x 30.2cm. Marginal tears... As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby. ... Harry Thornton Moore was born in 1908 in Oakland, California. He was awarded Guggenheim fellowships for English..... More
New York: Select Music Publishing, 1934. Sheet Music. Folio. 4 pp., Soft Covers, Good with creasing, toning, stains to back cover, small tears. Illustrated cover featuring photograph of Crosby. Former owner's signature inked on cover. More
Berkeley, CA.: Twowindows Press, 1983. PROSPECTUS only. 16mo. Folded Card, Very Good. More
Berkeley, CA.: Twowindows Press, 1983. PROSPECTUS. 16mo. Folded Card, Very Good, with minor shelf wear. Letterpress. More