Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 367

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) CROWDER, HENRY; COMPOSER. Henry Music, Poems by Richard Aldington, Harold Acton, Nancy Cunard, Walter Lowenfeld and Samuel Beckett. Twenty pages of printed music and poems with the poems on opposing pages; the delicate paper spine perished, pictorial paper-covered boards about detached; contents clean. Paris: Hours Press, 1930

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first edition, one of three hundred copies signed by crowder. Henry Crowder was an African American musician, and lover of Cunard Shipping Lines heiress Nancy Cunard. It was she who created the massive "Negro Anthology," which appeared four years later.