May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
THE CROSBYS' OWN COPY (BLACK SUN PRESS.) Crosby, Caresse. Poems for Harry Crosby. Photographic frontispiece of bust of Harry Crosby by Caresse. 4to, original white morocco and red cloth with paper spine label, moderate overall soiling and rubbing to spine label. Paris, 1931
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letter r of only 44 lettered copies. ex-collection harry crosby with his leather bookplate on front pastedown. A pencil correction on page 12 altering the word "from" to "form" is likely in Harry or Caresse's hand. Minkoff (A40) describes the edition as 22 though the colophon states 44.