Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(BLACK SUN PRESS.) Crosby, Henry Grew. Anthology. Small 8vo, author's special binding of 1/2 tree calf over marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt with black leather title label, scuffed, spine ends and tips rubbed, half of marbled paper missing from front cover; original blue-lettered buff wrappers bound in; marbled endpapers; top edges trimmed and gilt. [Paris: Privately Printed], (1924)

Additional Details

scarce first edition of crosby's first book printed a year before he founded the black sun press. Printed in Dijon by Darantière. Like others that have come to market, the present copy does not have "Printed for Private Use Only. Not for Sale" on the verso of the title-page. Minkoff A-1.