CHARLES [HENRI] FORD (1908 2002) PARKER TYLER (1904 1974)

Sale 2514 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 1,375

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

CHARLES [HENRI] FORD (1908-2002) & PARKER TYLER (1904-1974)

The Young and Evil.

8vo, modern lime green and tan morocco bound by Stephanie Gibbs; original brown front wrapper (corner restored) and rear flap printed in red bound in; ownership inscriptions on two early blanks, staining to bottom blank margins of prelims and first 25 pages; in card folding portfolio with morocco lettering label over hand-painted spine. Paris: Obelisk Press, (1933).

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scarce first trade edition. Elusive novel of 1920s gay life in the drag balls of Harlem and the speakeasies of Greenwich Village. There were supposedly 2500 copies of the trade edition (see lot below), of which some 500 were destroyed by British customs, and US customs returned all copies that arrived in America. Also issued as a signed limited edition of 50 copies.