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This Bibliography of the Black Sun Press contains all known works published by Caresse Crosby and Harry Crosby under the imprints Éditions Narcisse and Black Sun Press as well as their earlier privately printed work. This list excludes the Crosby Continental editions. The list is based on the standard[1] bibliography of the press written by George Robert Minkoff[2] as well as information from the Black Sun Press collections at the University of South Carolina[1], Emory University[3] and the University of Illinois, Carbondale.[4] Pricing information culled from Ahearn.[5]
Published Bibliographies and Other Bibliographic Sources
editPrimary Bibliographies and Catalogs
edit- Ransom, Will (1929), Private Presses and Their Books, New York: Bowker, pp. 216–217, ISBN 9780404147327, OCLC 609923227 (GB3100.05)
- Lists output from 1927–28, beginning with Painted Shores and ending with a note that Sterne's Sentimental Journey was in preparation.
- Cover title is "Books of the Black Sun Press". On a trip to Paris, American bookseller Harry F. Marks visited the Black Sun Press and subsequently became its American distributor. From the preface of this catalog (quoted in Wolff):
In the mellow light the scene seemed like an etching by Rembrandt. . . . In this absorbing atmosphere, time seemed of little importance. Everything was done leisurely, with infinite care. . . . On proofs that lay about the shop I noticed the beautiful clarity of the type, the perfect spacing, the wide, elegant margins. . . . Then and there I made arrangements to handle the output of the Black Sun Press in America. No contracts were signed. The agreement made between the Crosbys and myself was above the usual routine of mere business. There was no thought of money involved in these transactions.[6]: 175–6, elisions in original
- Bell, Millicent (1955), The Black Sun Press, 1927 to the present, Books at Brown, vol. 17, Friends of the Library of Brown University, OCLC 549504403 (GB3100.2)
- "Compiled from Mrs. Crosby's private collection, on exhibition at the Brown University Library from November 18 to December 15, 1954" (p. 14)
- Minkoff, George Robert (1970), A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press, Great Neck, New York: G. R. Minkoff, p. 60, OCLC 87855 (GB3100.3)
- Descriptive bibliography of all work published by the Crosbys.
- Cox, Shelly (1970), Black Sun Press, Carbondale, Illinois: Friends of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, p. 22, OCLC 17048360
- Contains brief descriptions of 106 numbered items, selected from the Black Sun Press papers in the Morris Library.
Secondary Sources
edit- Crosby, Harry (1928–30), Shadows of the Sun, vol. 1–3, Paris: Black Sun Press
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- Diaries of Harry Crosby.
- Carson, Ann Conover (1989), Caresse Crosby: from Black Sun to Roccasinibalda, Capra Press, p. 239, ISBN 0884963020
- Biography of Caresse Crosby.
- Young, Kevin (2008), Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, Emory Libraries, pp. 120–126, OCLC 255966372
- Photographs and commentary on selections from the Emory College Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library.
- Crosby, Caresse (1953), The Passionate Years, New York: Dial Press, p. 342 (GB3100.18)
- Autobiography of Caresse Crosby.
Early work, Éditions Narcisses and Black Sun Press
editIf Shadows of the Sun v1-3 all have 44 copies, then an instance of all three $3500
Caresse Crosby, Graven Images, Boston, 1926, $750
Minkoff Index[2] |
Year | Author | Title | Copies | Estimated Value (2011)[5][B] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-1 | 1924 | Henry Grew Crosby | Anthology[a] | ? | $6000 |
| A-2 | 1925 | Caresse Crosby | Crosses of Gold First edition.[b] |
100 (numbered) | $1000 |
| A-2b | 1925 | Caresse Crosby | Crosses of Gold Second edition.[c] |
? | ? |
| A-3 | 1925 | Harry Crosby | Sonnets for Caresse First Edition[d] |
17 (numbered) | ? |
| A-3b | 1926 | Harry Crosby | Sonnets for Caresse Second Edition[e] |
27 | ? |
| A-3c | 1926 | Harry Crosby | Sonnets for Caresse Third Edition[f] |
1 (Old Japan) 7 (Imperial Japan, numbered) 100 (Arches, numbered) |
? |
| A-3d | 1927 | Harry Crosby | Sonnets for Caresse Fourth ("definitive") edition[g] |
44 (Imperial Japan, numbered) | $1650 |
| A-4 | 1927 | Harry Crosby | Red Skeletons[h] | 33 (Japan Imperial, n. 1–33) 333 (Van Gelder, n. 34–366) 4 hors-commerce |
? |
| A-5 | 1927 | Caresse Crosby | Painted Shores | 222 | $600 |
| A-6 | 1927 | Caresse Crosby | The Stranger | ||
| A-7 | 1928 | Edgar Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | ||
| A-8 | 1928 | Lord Lymington | Git Le Coeur | ||
| A-9 | 1928 | Caresse Crosby | Impossible Melodies | ||
| A-10 | 1928 | Harry Crosby | Chariot of the Sun | 44 (numbered) | $4000 |
| A-11 | 1928 | Harry Crosby | Shadows of the Sun | ||
| A-12 | 1928 | na | The News Letter of the LXIVmos | ||
| A-13 | 1928 | Oscar Wilde | The Birthday of the Infanta | ||
| A-13b | 1928 | Oscar Wilde | L'Anniversaire de l'Infante | ||
| A-14 | 1928 | na | Hindu Love Book | ||
| A-15 | 1928 | D. H. Lawrence | Sun | ||
| A-16 | 1928 | na | Letters of Henry James to Walter Berry | 16 (Japan vellum) 100 (Van Gelder paper) |
$6000 $1000 |
| A-17 | 1928 | Harry Crosby | Transit of Venus | 44 | $4500 |
| A-17b | 1929 | Harry Crosby | Transit of Venus | 200 | $2500 |
| A-18 | 1929 | Harry Crosby | Mad Queen | 20 (signed) 100 Trade |
$5000 $2000 $600 |
| A-19 | 1929 | Kay Boyle | Short Stories First edition. |
15 (Japan paper, signed) 150 (Van Gelder paper, numbered) 20 (Arches paper) |
$1750 $1000 $1250 |
| A-20 | 1929 | Harry Crosby | Shadows of the Sun - Series Two | ||
| A-21 | 1929 | James Joyce | Tales Told of Shem and Shaun | 500 (Van Gelder, numbered) 100 (vellum, signed/unsigned) |
$1750 $15000/$3500 |
| A-22 | 1929 | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | ||
| A-23 | 1929 | Archibald MacLeish | Einstein | ||
| A-24 | 1929 | Harry Crosby | The Sun (Miniature) | ||
| A-25 | 1929 | Bob Brown | 1450-1950 | ||
| A-25 | 1929 | Bob Brown | 1450-1950 | ||
| A-26 | 1929 | na | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | ||
| A-27 | 1929 | D. H. Lawrence | The Escaped Cock | 450 (Van Gelder) 50 (vellum, signed) |
$750 $4500 |
| A-28 | 1929 | Lord Lymington | Spring Song of Iscariot | 125 (Van Gelder) 25 (Japan) |
$450 $2000 |
| A-29 | 1929 | Eugene Jolas | Secession in Astropolis | 100 (signed) | $250 |
| A-30 | 1929 | Harry Crosby | Sleeping Together | 500 | $1000 |
| A-31 | 1929 | Choderlos De Laclos | Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Volume 1) | ||
| A-31b | 1929 | Choderlos De Laclos | Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Volume 2) | ||
| A-32 | 1930 | Hart Crane | The Bridge First Edition. |
200 (silver slipcase) 25 (hors de commerce) 50 (Japan vellum, signed) 8 (vellum, signed, lettered) |
$4500 $7500 $45000 $75000 |
| A-33 | 1930 | na | 47 Unpublished Letters | ||
| A-33b | 1930 | na | 47 Unpublished Letters (French Edition) | ||
| A-34 | 1930 | Gretchen & Peter Powel | New York 1929 | ||
| A-35 | 1930 | Harry Crosby | Shadows of the Sun - Series Three | ||
| A-36 | 1930 | Archibald MacLeish | New Found Land | ||
| A-36b | 1930 | Archibald MacLeish | New Found Land | ||
| A-37 | 1930 | Harry Crosby | Aphrodite in Flight | ||
| A-38 | 1930 | Ezra Pound | Imaginary Letters | ||
| A-39 | 1930 | Lewis Caroll | Alice in Wonderland | ||
| A-40 | 1931 | Caresse Crosby | Poems for Harry Crosby First edition. |
22 Van Gelder paper (lettered) 500 Lafuma paper (numbered) |
$1500 $750 |
| A-41 | 1931 | Rene Crevel | Mr. Knife Miss Fork | 200 50 (signed) |
$12500 $22500 |
| A-42 | 1931 | Harry Crosby | Chariot of the Sun : Collected Poems of Harry Crosby | 500 | $2000 |
| A-42b | 1931 | Harry Crosby | Transit of Venus : Collected Poems of Harry Crosby | ||
| A-42c | 1931 | Harry Crosby | Sleeping Together : Collected Poems of Harry Crosby | ||
| A-42d | 1931 | Harry Crosby | Torchbearer : Collected Poems of Harry Crosby | 500 | $1000 |
| A-43 | 1933 | Henry Grew Crosby | War Letters | ||
| A-44 | 1936 | George Grosz | Interregnum | ||
| A-45 | 1936 | James Joyce | Collected Poems of James Joyce | 750 50 (Vellum, signed) 3 (Signed, lettered) |
$1250 $17500 $35000 |
| A-46 | 1936 | Julien Levy | Surrealism | ||
| A-47 | 1942 | Sharon Vail | Four Poems | ||
| A-48 | 1943 | Max Ernst, Paul Eluard | Misfortunes of the Immortals | ||
| A-49 | 1944 | Ramon Sartoris | Three Plays | ||
| A-50 | 1945 | Pietro Lazzari | Horses | ||
| A-51 | 19xx | na | Portfolio | ||
| A-51b | 19xx | na | Portfolio II | ||
| A-51c | 19xx | na | Portfolio III | ||
| A-51d | 19xx | na | Portfolio IV | ||
| A-51e | 19xx | na | Portfolio V | ||
| A-51f | 19xx | na | Portfolio VI | ||
| A-52 | 1948 | Charles Olson | Y & X | 118+ (grey tweedweave, boxed) 400 (slipcover) |
$1250 $400 |
| A-52b | 1950 | Charles Olson | Y & X (2nd. Ed.) | unknown | n/a |
| A-53 | 1951 | Modigliani | Pencil Portraits |
Other presses with the same name
editPoet Harvey Tucker published his work and others' in his Brooklyn-based "Black Sun Magazine" from 1965–1969.[8][9]: 12 [10]: 1 [11]: 18, 32, 55 The volumes are printed on 8.5" by 11.0" paper and bound using staples.
The author August Plinth (aka Howling Wolf and Auguste Plinth) published several books under the "Black Sun Press" label. This may have been the Brooklyn Black Sun press, Plinth's own press, or some other company.
Apparatus
edit- ^ The book contained favorite poems of Harry Crosby and was printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantière. The book was intended for Crosby's personal use and is stamped "Printed for Private Use / Only / Not for Sale".[6]: 353
- ^ Printed by Léon Pichon, Paris.
- ^ Published by Albert Messein, Paris. Printed by Charles Herissey.
- ^ Printed by Herbert Clarke, Paris.
- ^ Printed by Herbert Clarke, Paris.
- ^ Published by Albert Messein, Paris.
- ^ Editions Narcisse.
- ^ Éditions Narcisse. This book marks the beginning of the collaboration with the printer Lescaret. Woff relates the following:
Red Skeletons, with epigraphs from Wilde and Baudelaire, the poems with titles like "Red Burial", "Black Sarcophagus", "Futility", "Gargoyles", "Lamentation" and "Black Idol" (a hymn to opium), was an act of craven idolatry. Harry soon enough recognized this, and bought up all the copies of Red Skeletons he had not sold or given away—eighty-four in number—and took them to Ermenoville, where he built a bonfire of eighty copies (around which the Crosbys danced a funeral jig) and shotgunned the rest till not a word was legible.[6]: 140
Notes
edit- ^ Bibliographies through 1971 are given with the index provided by Tanselle.[7]: vol. 1 p. 435–6 The subject Black Sun Press is GB3100 with each bibliography receiving a one- or two-digit suffix.
- ^ Book prices are dependent on the condition of the book as well as the current market. This information is intended to be used as a rough guide for how these works were valued in the relatively recent past.
References
edit- ^ a b Harry Crosby and The Black Sun/Editions Narcisse, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina, 2000
- ^ a b Minkoff, George Robert (1970), A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press, Great Neck, New York: G. R. Minkoff, p. 60, OCLC 87855
- ^
Hildreth, Amy (Spring 2011), "Shadows of the Sun: Harry and Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press" (PDF), Manscript Archives and Rare Book Library of Emory University (MARBL), 5 (1): 5–6
{{citation}}: line feed character in|title=at position 31 (help) - ^ Cox, Shelly (1970), Black Sun Press, Carbondale, Illinois: Friends of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, p. 22, OCLC 17048360
- ^ a b Ahearn, Allen; Ahearn, Patricia, Collected books : the guide to identification and values, p. 817, ISBN 9781883060138, OCLC 842405442
- ^ a b c Wolff, Geoffrey (1976), Black Sun : the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby, New York: Random House, p. 367, ISBN 9780394474502, OCLC 566041982
- ^ Tanselle, G. Thomas (1971), Guide to the study of United States imprints, vol. 1, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of HarvardUP, p. 1050, ISBN 9780674367616, OCLC 241582
- ^ The Black Sun Archive: Historical/Biographical Note, Avant Garde Collection, Fales Library, New York University, 11 Nov. 2011, retrieved Sep. 2013
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - ^ Fulton, Len (1973), Small press record of books, 1973-74; a listing of books, pamphlets and broadsides published by the small presses (3rd ed.), Dustbooks, p. 74, OCLC 1187204
- ^ Tucker, Harvey (1968), The Destruction of Trinities, Black Sun Press (Brooklyn), p. 58, OCLC 10081231
- ^ Directory of Small Magazine/press Editors and Publishers, Paradise, California: Dustbooks, 1970, OCLC 68000689
Scraps
editCaresse Crosby Papers at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale.
Mentions Black Sun Press exhibition at Emory's Manuscript and Rare Book Library
University of South Carolina blub with links to images.
To Whom It May Concern broadsheet image from SC.
U. Illinois Carbondale has a collection; need to track down the catalog.
The Black Sun Press Collection, Auvermann und Reiss KG (Glashütten im Taunus, Allemagne), Auvermann & Reiss, 1980, 210 pages (French edition of Minkoff)