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[BLACK SUN PRESS - Harry CROSBY] BROWN, BobBiblio.com

1450 - 1950

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

James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC · Estados UnidosUS$ 7.500,00≈ € 6.687,47

China; Photography; Sun Yat SenBiblio.com

154 Photographs around Beijing China around 1925

1942ref. 287481942. Photography. Very good condition. A collection of black & white photographs in and around Pekin Beijing taken in about 1925. While the photographer is unidentified the photos are clear and well framed. These are unusual images as they seem to have been taken by an American but no American is ever shown in the photographs. The photos illustrate the sites and trades of China and there are also images that refer to Sun Yat Sen including a photo captioned with his name possibly him with a group of others walking in a square. Shot number 76 is of 'Sun Yat Sen Funeral rehersal' sic at the Temple of Azure Clouds" which took place in 1925. Famous buildings include the Summer Palace Temple of Heaven Great Wall Altar of Heaven Forbidden City Sleeping Buddha Temple Cloud Tower Taoist Shrine Temple of Universe Summer Palace Marble Boat Pagoda Tientsin Dock the Great Wall etc. There are many street scenes with local people and merchants Tibetans at Lama Temple Pekin Donkey ready for shoeing Toy Peddlar sic with Gong Pekin old man and 2 bird cages Paint Shop Pekin camels Iceman Pekin Coal Carrier Defile near Wall Pekin Beggar Pekin Barber. "Unique among 20th-century Chinese leaders Sun is revered by both the Republic of China on Taiwan where he is officially the "Father of the Nation" as well as the People's Republic of China where he is officially the "Forerunner of the Revolution" for his instrumental role in the 1911 Revolution that successfully overthrew the Qing dynasty." wikipedia. One additional snapshot of a snowy American scene entitled 'Winter 1941-2" that was developed at the Westchester Photo Finishing Co. with Nutone process 4 1/8 x 5 1/8". The typewritten caption on this photo is consistent with the captions on the photos so it appears to be a cohesive group belonging to one person. 154 photographs 2 5/8 x 4 1/2". They are printed on card and are possibly from contact sheets as they there are some slightly rough edges. The majority have a label affixed to the bottom of photo with identifying number and caption which corresponds with a 3pp typewritten index. The list number 157 photos 154 present here so nearly complete. Very good condition. unknown

Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints · Estados UnidosUS$ 3.500,00≈ € 3.120,82

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