[Black Sun Press] Crosby, Harry. Chariot of the Sun

Paris: At the Sign of the Sundial, 1928. First edition, one of 44 copies on Van Gelder Zonen paper (from a total of 92). From the library of Harry and Caresse Crosby, with their Black Sun blindstamp in upper front blank, and with manuscript corrections by Harry Crosby, at top of p. 41, adding "il faut d'abord avoir soif", and on p. (65), correcting "Translation of Lautréamont Preface a un Livre Futur" to "Translation of Lautréamont's Preface à un Livre Futur". 8vo. Title-page printed in black and in red. Illustrated with two plates, after Polia Chentoff and A.E. Marty. Quarter tree calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, lightly rubbed; marbled endpapers; text partially unopened; original wrappers bound in; City Lights Books slip laid in: "Dear sir: Sent you at the request of Mrs. Caresse Crosby"; pencil notation on p. 40. Minkoff A-10

From the library of Harry and Caresse Crosby. According to a printed Grolier Club exhibition label laid in, this copy was specially bound at Caresse's direction. The manuscript epigraph added on p. 41, for the poem "Brest", was incorporated into the text of the second edition printed in 1931. The portrait of Harry Crosby by artist Polia Chentoff (his sometime lover), was destroyed by Caresse after Harry's death ("I found [the painting] so metaphysically disturbing that I put it to the torch.") (Crosby, The Passionate Years, p. 284).

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[Black Sun Press] Crosby, Harry. Chariot of the Sun

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[Black Sun Press] Crosby, Harry. Chariot of the Sun

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