Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CROSBY, HARRY. Red Skeletons. Title and text printed in red and black. Frontispiece and plates after Alastair, printed in red and black, lettered tissue guards. 4to, original printed wrappers, light finger soiling, margins slightly tanned, backstrip chipped with some loss to foot. first edition, number 108 of 370 copies. with an early 12 line inscription by crosby. "Dear Winship[?], This book is in a large sense due to your excellent advice for me to seek for a certain 'literary effect' ... you might like the Alastair illustrations - Gratitude, Harry Crosby, Paris 1927." Paris: Éditions Narcisse, 1927

Additional Details

with-- De Laclos. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. 2 volumes. Printed in red and black. Illustrations by Alastair. 4to, printed wrappers, soiling, edgewear, few small chips to glassine wrappers. Limited edition. Number 199 (Volume 1) and 479 (volume 2) of each 1000 copies. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929.