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Lot 91
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$1,792
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[Black Sun Press] Crosby, Harry. The Sun
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition, out-of-series copy, printed on Japan Paper (from a total of 100 numbered copies). 64mo. Full brown leather, decorated in gilt with the Black Sun motif; all edges gilt; hand-painted patterned endpapers; original wrappers bound in. Minkoff A-24; Welsh 2084
One of the rarest Black Sun Press publications, and the first of their only two miniature books.
According to RBH, this is the first copy to come to auction since 1992.

