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BLACK SUN PRESS. Crosby, Harry. Collected Poems. 4 volumes comprising Sleeping Together. A Book of Dreams. With a Memory of the Poet by Stuart Gilbert * Transit of Venus. Preface by T.S. Eliot * Chariot of the Sun. Introduction by D. H. Lawrence * Torchbearer. Notes by Ezra Pound. One photographic frontispiece portrait and one additional photographic plate, title-pages printed in red and black. Large 8vo, original printed wrappers and glassine dust jackets; custom chemise and slipcase of 1/2 red morocco gilt-lettered black calf spine labels. Paris, 1931
Caresse Crosby's poetic memorial to her husband. Number 42 of only 50 sets on navarre. While the colophon calls for 50 numbered copies on Hollande and 20 lettered copies on Japan vellum, these were never issued and the numbers were assigned to 50 copies on Navarre. Minkoff A42.
