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1942ref. 2249New York: Printed by the Gemor Press 1942. First edition. 16 pp. Unbound folded sheets laid into a printed wrapper. Minor handling wear to cover near fine. "Limited to one hundred copies handset in light italic Bernhard Gothic type of twelve point. designed and edited by Caresse Crosby as a Christmas gift." Crosby arranged for Anaïs Nin's letterpress operation Gemor Press to print this collection of poems by Kay Boyle's daughter. Although Black Sun is not mentioned anywhere in the publication Minkoff nonetheless includes it in his bibliography A-47. Crosby also commissioned Gemor to publish an augmented and translated edition of Paul Eluard and Max Ernst's Misfortunes of the Immortals the following year. [Printed by the Gemor Press] unknown
1928ref. 2401Paris: Editions Narcisse 1928. First edition. 96 pp. Printed wrappers with French flaps. Some toning to extremities spine a little browned. One of 200 numbered copies printed by Roger Lescaret for Harry and Caresse Crosby. Raised in Wyoming Gerard Vernon Wallop 9th Earl of Portsmouth Viscount Lymington fell in with the Crosbys in Paris; they "bowled him right over" and he enjoyed various decadences with them taking a flat nearby at 1 Rue Gît-le-Coeur. This copy is inscribed "for Constance with Gerard's love January 4th 1929" with an Autograph Letter Signed laid in from Gerard to Constance. Constance was Constance Crowninshield Coolidge the Comtesse de Jumilhac Harry Crosby's "Lady of the Golden Horse" and the closest of his mistresses Caresse noted years later "All through the Paris years she was my most formidable antagonist but I could not help immensely admiring her." The letter a single sheet folded is undated but written from 1 Rue Git le Coeur. A breezy and charming note Lymington presents his book "which has perhaps one merit- sincerity" along with compliments about their recent luncheon and an offer for her to visit the English countryside. Minkoff A-8. Editions Narcisse unknown
1930ref. 2506Paris: Black Sun Press 1930. First edition. 56 4 pp. Original publisher’s wrappers and cardboard slipcase. Head of box splitting slightly but solid; lacking the original glassine. Volume about fine with a shadow at the spine from the slipcase opening. One of 300 numbered copies on Navarre from a total edition of 375 copies. Pound’s continuation of Wyndham Lewis’s “letters” published in the Little Review in 1917 and 1918. Gallup A32. Minkoff A-38. Black Sun Press unknown
1931ref. 9281Paris: Black Sun 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Translated from the French by Kay Boyle. Illustrated by Max Ernst. One of 200 copies on Bristol paper this being copy number 52. Although not called for this copy is signed by Max Ernst on the frontispiece illustration. Furthermore it is in the deluxe 50-copy black binding with black endpapers. Finally the book is housed in the publisher's slipcase which was intended only for the deluxe edition. Such discrepancies were not uncommon for this aristocratic press whose attention to bibliographical accuracy can generously be described as casual. The 19 photograms that illustrate the book constituted a pioneering artist's technique by Ernst who was assisted in the endeavor by fellow Surrealist Man Ray. Carefully pencil-rubbed what the French call "frottage" translucent papers were employed as negatives to create the photograms. In essence then a photogram is a photograph made without the use of a camera. The three principals of this _Livre de Artiste were unlikely collaborators. Crevel whose 1927 novel "Babylone" was the source for "Mr Knife Miss Fork" which is the novel's first chapter committed suicide at the age of 35 after an unhappy existence as a radical political activist and closeted homosexual; Boyle an American author at the epicenter of the expatriate colony in Paris was gamely trying to deal with her financial short-fallings; while Ernst an acknowledged pioneer of the burgeoning Dada and Surrealist movements in art was likewise motivated by the opportunity to earn a few francs. All in all an anomalously desirable volume. Black Sun hardcover
1929ref. 2505Paris: Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. 27 5 pp. Original publisher’s printed wrappers with French flaps original glassine and publisher’s cardboard gilt and silver slipcase. Slipcase split along bottom edge and missing a section of the top edge; volume about fine with very slight wear to the corners of the glassine. One of 100 numbered copies of a total edition of 150 copies. Raised in Wyoming Gerard Vernon Wallop 9th Earl of Portsmouth Viscount Lymington fell in with the Crosbys in Paris; they “bowled him right over” and he enjoyed various decadences with them taking a flat nearby at 1 Rue Gît-le-Coeur the title of another his volumes of verse published by Black Sun. Minkoff A-28. Black Sun Press unknown
1929ref. 22389Paris: Black Sun Press 1929. First edition. One of 150 copies printed. Minkoff A25. Presentation copy inscribed by the publisher Harry Crosby to his father: "SVRC Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby from Harry" with an accompanying sketch of his personalized sun symbol and the Black Sun Press's emblem. "In August Harry Crosby delivered one hundred and fifty copies of 1450-1950 to Brown who quickly sent most of them on to publishers and friends sixty of whom he listed opposite the title page under the heading "Free Copies." In return Brown hoped for a few kind words that might be useful in reviving a writing career that had been quiescent for close to fifteen years. 1450-1950 is an amusing mixture of ideography and calligraphy examples of which Brown had been amassing - with obvious pleasure - for many years. "I like looking back / at the / Illuminated manuscripts of / 1450 / And forward / to the / more Illuminations / Movie Scripts of / 1950 I like to see / Fly Specks / on yellowed pages / I like too / Leaving my own on / New ones / My Fly Speck." In his dedication to "all monks all early oriental artists . . . " Brown playfully attempted to locate his work in the history of innovative printing and himself among those authors celebrated as much for their matter as for their manner of expression. By early fall he had gathered a garland of testimonials from among others Gertrude Stein H. L. Mencken and William Carlos Williams." Harry Crosby was found dead in his New York studio on December 10th 1929 evidently a casualty of a suicide pact: in one hand he held a pistol and in his other arm his twenty year old lover Josephine Noyes Rotch Bigelow also dead of a bullet to the temple. - Hugh Ford Published In Paris N. Y.: Macmillan 1975 p. 200- 210. On the same day Crosby had made his last entry in his diary: "One is not in love unless one desires to die with one's beloved. There is only one happiness it is to love and to be loved." When Jonathan Williams reissued 1450-1950 as Jargon 29 in 1959 the publisher observed: "That it should take him JW thirty years to locate a copy of Bob Brown's utterly charming and singular book is a measure of the almost cultish regard 1450-1950 has commanded from its contemporaries. If you didn't own a copy you were automatically cast into either of the modern outer darknesses then beginning to pullulate: Squaresville or Beat City. The virtues of 1450-1950 are publicly attested by many luminaries on the back cover blurb - among them Geltte Burgess who invented the word blurb." Among those quoted on the back cover are Gertrude Stein Marcel Duchamp Carl Van Vechten William Carlos Williams Carl Sandburg Walter Lowenfels James Johnson Sweeney Gelett Burgess Stuart Davis and Caresse Crosby who wrote to Brown: "We show your book to everyone who comes to the house and they always find some page that so especially delights them that soon we will have to chain it down like an ancient missal. A fine copy of a rare book with the "Crosby Cross" bookplate and the Black Sun Press blindstamp on the endpaper in the publisher's gold foil folder which is somewhat worn. 8vo original printed wrappers publisher's glassine dust jacket publisher's foil folder. A fine copy of a rare book with the "Crosby Cross" bookplate and the Black Sun Press blindstamp on the endpaper in the publisher's gold foil folder which is somewhat worn. Black Sun Press unknown books
1989ref. 50667Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1989. First Edition. 8vo pp. 239. Fine in dj. Inscribed by the author to William Claire: "To Bill Claire . Poet and publisher . the loyal friend who recognized the lasting nature of Caresse's contribution as a muse and who was the wind at my back "from foreword to Finis . with love and appreciation . "The poet . is the longest life giver in the universe" . CC" Included are 10 typed letters and an autograph post card from Conover to Claire as well an invitation to an autograph party an announcement for a lecture and also a copy of Claire's interview of Conover in Horizon Magazine. In the interview Conover says about Caresse " in my view she was a catalyst in the lives of writers and artists . Capra Press unknown books
1928ref. 2401Paris: Editions Narcisse 1928. First edition. 96 pp. Printed wrappers with French flaps. Some toning to extremities spine a little browned. One of 200 numbered copies printed by Roger Lescaret for Harry and Caresse Crosby. Raised in Wyoming Gerard Vernon Wallop 9th Earl of Portsmouth Viscount Lymington fell in with the Crosbys in Paris; they "bowled him right over" and he enjoyed various decadences with them taking a flat nearby at 1 Rue Gît-le-Coeur. This copy is inscribed "for Constance with Gerard's love January 4th 1929" with an Autograph Letter Signed laid in from Gerard to Constance. Constance was Constance Crowninshield Coolidge the Comtesse de Jumilhac Harry Crosby's "Lady of the Golden Horse" and the closest of his mistresses Caresse noted years later "All through the Paris years she was my most formidable antagonist but I could not help immensely admiring her." The letter a single sheet folded is undated but written from 1 Rue Git le Coeur. A breezy and charming note Lymington presents his book "which has perhaps one merit- sincerity" along with compliments about their recent luncheon and an offer for her to visit the English countryside. Minkoff A-8. Editions Narcisse unknown books
1990ref. 153787London: Nicola Jacobs Gallery 1990. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Nicola Jacobs Gallery between June 27 and September 1 1990. Near Fine in card wrappers. Light toning and edgewear to wrappers with a small bump to lower right corner. Nicola Jacobs Gallery unknown
1990ref. 153787London: Nicola Jacobs Gallery 1990. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Nicola Jacobs Gallery between June 27 and September 1 1990. Near Fine in card wrappers. Light toning and edgewear to wrappers with a small bump to lower right corner. Nicola Jacobs Gallery unknown books
1994ref. LFA-126733221N° 80 (4e trimestre 1994) : 56 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustré, broché, CEGRA, bon état
2010ref. 169521Boston: Pucker Gallery 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. First Edition. Photo-illustrated in color throughout. A few tiny scratchees to the front panel else As New. Pucker Gallery unknown books
1988ref. 218643Beijing.: 文物出版社. Wenwu chubanshe. 1988. Maps copious black and white line illustrations including decorative elements on drums 332pp 120 pages of black and white photographic illustrations text in simplified Chinese characters 26.4 x 18.8cm. A very brief summary of the history and types of drums in English. Spine a little discoloured first leaves a little foxed small mark where sticker has been removed lower cover a good hardback copy in papercovered boards with contrasting cloth spine. 中國古代銅鼓 Ancient Chinese Bronze Drums explores the cultural and historical significance of bronze drums in ancient China. Key topics include: Origins and Development: The evolution of bronze drums from the Dong Son culture to their spread across southern China and Southeast Asia; Cultural Significance: Their role in rituals ceremonies and as symbols of power and authority; Artistic Designs: Intricate patterns motifs and inscriptions reflecting ancient beliefs and cosmology; Archaeological Discoveries: Findings from major excavation sites and their historical context; Ethnographic Connections: The use of bronze drums by ethnic minority groups linking ancient traditions to modern practices. . 文物出版社. [Wenwu chubanshe]. hardcover
ref. LFA0121cUn document de 20 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustré, broché, s.d., bon état
ref. 201703263Paris, Gallimard, 1966 ; in-8, 257 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
ref. 202601224Paris, Gallimard, 1967 ; in-8, 342 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
ref. 201600957Paris, Gallimard, 1969 ; in-8, 196 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
ref. 201808242Paris, Gallimard, 1948 ; in-8, 241 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Piece en quatre actes.
ref. 201222472Paris, NRF Gallimard - collection soleil, 1974 ; in-8, 452 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Très bon état - 320e vol de la collection.
ref. 201605027Paris, Gallimard, s.d. ; in-8, 445 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
ref. 202002204Paris, NRF Gallimard, 1969 ; in-12, 197 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. BON ÉTAT un peu salis.
ref. 201509480Paris, NRF Gallimard, 1963 ; in-8, 116 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Traduction d'André Gide et suivi de LA CORBEILLE DE FRUITS traduit de l'anglais par Hélène du Pasquier - bon état avec son rhodoide.
ref. 201203757Grenoble, Glénat, 1984 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. EO tome 1 : DL janvier 84 ( petite pliure sur le haut du dos ).
2019ref. 2081502111902927Chinese Academy of Arts 2019. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chinese Academy of Arts paperback
1966ref. 82726Pennington NJ: Educational Consultants Collaborative 1966. First Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; original photo-illustrated card wrappers stapled; iv262pp. Gentle sunning and light wear along the spine-fold; contents fresh; Near Fine. An essay and a report discussing the legal and moral responsibility schools face in "preparing individuals for full citizenship" zeroing in on the increasing rise in unskilled and uneducated students from the slums and backwoods and discussing "how a painting studio workshop as a formal part of the school curriculum can help resolve conflict and consolidate cultures" from the introductory matter. Front cover reproduces a photograph by Sol Libsohn 1914-2001 a documentary photographer and co-founder of the New York Workers Film and Photo League. Uncommon in commerce with OCLC showing just 4 holdings Columbia UC Davis Rutgers RISD. 82726. Educational Consultants Collaborative unknown
