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This Bibliography of the Black Sun Press contains all known works published by Caresse Crosby and Harry Crosby under the imprints Éditions Narcisse and Black Sun Press as well as their earlier privately printed work. This list excludes the Crosby Continental editions. The list is based on the standard bibliography of the press written by George Robert Minkoff as well as information from the Black Sun Press collections at the University of South Carolina, Emory University and the University of Illinois, Carbondale. Pricing information culled from Ahearn.{{refn|name=CB}}

Published Bibliographies and Other Bibliographic Sources

=Primary Bibliographies and Catalogs=

  • {{citation | last=Ransom | first=Will | title=Private Presses and Their Books | publisher=Bowker | year=1929 | location=New York | pages=216–217 | OCLC=609923227 | ISBN=9780404147327}} (GB3100.05)

::Lists output from 1927–28, beginning with Painted Shores and ending with a note that Sterne's Sentimental Journey was in preparation.

  • {{citation | last=Marks | first=Harry F. | title=The Black Sun Press 1930 | year=1930 | pages=12 | OCLC=10716621}}. (GB3100.06)

::Cover title is "Books of the Black Sun Press". On a trip to Paris, American bookseller Harry F. Marks visited the Black Sun Press and subsequently became its American distributor. From the preface of this catalog (quoted in Wolff):

::

In the mellow light the scene seemed like an etching by Rembrandt. . . . In this absorbing atmosphere, time seemed of little importance. Everything was done leisurely, with infinite care. . . . On proofs that lay about the shop I noticed the beautiful clarity of the type, the perfect spacing, the wide, elegant margins. . . . Then and there I made arrangements to handle the output of the Black Sun Press in America. No contracts were signed. The agreement made between the Crosbys and myself was above the usual routine of mere business. There was no thought of money involved in these transactions.{{rp|175-6, elisions in original}}

  • {{citation | title=The Black Sun Press, 1927 to the present | last=Bell | first=Millicent | publisher=Friends of the Library of Brown University | year=1955 | OCLC=549504403 | series=Books at Brown | volume=17 | number=1–2}} (GB3100.2)

::"Compiled from Mrs. Crosby's private collection, on exhibition at the Brown University Library from November 18 to December 15, 1954" (p. 14)

  • {{citation | publisher=G. R. Minkoff | last=Minkoff | first=George Robert | location=Great Neck, New York | year=1970 | OCLC=87855 | pages=60 | title=A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press}} (GB3100.3)

::Descriptive bibliography of all work published by the Crosbys.

  • {{citation | title=Black Sun Press | last=Cox | first=Shelly | pages=22 | OCLC=17048360 | publisher=Friends of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University | location=Carbondale, Illinois | year=1970}}

::Contains brief descriptions of 106 numbered items, selected from the Black Sun Press papers in the Morris Library.

=Secondary Sources=

  • {{citation | last=Crosby | first=Harry | title=Shadows of the Sun | location=Paris | publisher=Black Sun Press | year=1928–30 | volume=1–3 }} (GB3100.03){{efn |group=upper-alpha| name=GttSoUSI | Bibliographies through 1971 are given with the index provided by Tanselle.{{refn|name=Tanselle|{{citation|last=Tanselle | first=G. Thomas | title=Guide to the study of United States imprints | location=Cambridge, Mass. | publisher = Belknap Press of HarvardUP | year=1971 | volume=1 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=iyyYDFDcJrEC | pages=1050 | OCLC=241582 | ISBN=9780674367616}} }}{{rp|vol. 1 p. 435–6}} The subject Black Sun Press is GB3100 with each bibliography receiving a one- or two-digit suffix.}}

::Diaries of Harry Crosby.

  • {{citation | title=Caresse Crosby: from Black Sun to Roccasinibalda | last=Carson | first=Ann Conover | year=1989 | publisher=Capra Press | ISBN=0884963020 | pages=239}}

::Biography of Caresse Crosby.

  • {{citation | title=Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library | last=Young | first=Kevin | publisher=Emory Libraries | year=2008 | pages=120–126 | OCLC=255966372}}

::Photographs and commentary on selections from the Emory College Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library.

  • {{citation | last=Crosby | first=Caresse | title=The Passionate Years | location=New York | publisher=Dial Press | date=1953 | pages=342}} (GB3100.18)

::Autobiography of Caresse Crosby.

Early work, ''Éditions Narcisses'' and ''Black Sun Press''

If Shadows of the Sun v1-3 all have 44 copies, then an instance of all three $3500

Caresse Crosby, Graven Images, Boston, 1926, $750

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Minkoff
Index{{refn|name=M}}
YearAuthorTitleCopiesEstimated
Value
(2011){{refn|name=CB}}{{efn|group=upper-alpha|Book prices are dependent on the condition of the book as well as the current market. This information is intended to be used as a rough guide for how these works were valued in the relatively recent past.}}

data-sort-value=10 | A-1[http://www.worldcat.org/title/anthology/oclc/2279440 {{spaces|0}}]1924Henry Grew CrosbyAnthology{{efn

|group=lower-alpha

|The book contained favorite poems of Harry Crosby and was printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantière. The book was intended for Crosby's personal use and is stamped "Printed for Private Use / Only / Not for Sale".{{refn|name=Wolff}}{{rp|353}}

}}

?$6000

data-sort-value=11 | A-2[http://www.worldcat.org/title/crosses-of-gold-a-book-of-verse/oclc/7253058 {{spaces|0}}]1925Caresse CrosbyCrosses of Gold
First edition.{{efn|group=lower-alpha|Printed by Léon Pichon, Paris.}}
100 (numbered)$1000

data-sort-value=12 | A-2b[http://www.worldcat.org/title/crosses-of-gold-nouvelle-edition-augmentee/oclc/458990377 {{spaces|0}}]1925Caresse CrosbyCrosses of Gold
Second edition.{{efn|group=lower-alpha|Published by Albert Messein, Paris. Printed by Charles Herissey.}}
??

data-sort-value=13 | A-31925Harry CrosbySonnets for Caresse
First Edition{{efn|group=lower-alpha|Printed by Herbert Clarke, Paris.}}
17 (numbered)?

data-sort-value=14 | A-3b[http://www.worldcat.org/title/crosses-of-gold-nouvelle-edition-augmentee/oclc/557958373 {{spaces|0}}]1926Harry CrosbySonnets for Caresse
Second Edition{{efn|group=lower-alpha|Printed by Herbert Clarke, Paris.}}
27?

data-sort-value=15 | A-3c[http://www.worldcat.org/title/crosses-of-gold-nouvelle-edition-augmentee/oclc/1496331 {{spaces|0}}]1926Harry CrosbySonnets for Caresse
Third Edition{{efn|group=lower-alpha|Published by Albert Messein, Paris.}}
1 (Old Japan)
7 (Imperial Japan, numbered)
100 (Arches, numbered)
?

data-sort-value=16 | A-3d1927Harry CrosbySonnets for Caresse
Fourth ("definitive") edition{{efn|group=lower-alpha|Editions Narcisse.}}
44 (Imperial Japan, numbered)$1650

data-sort-value=17 | A-4[http://www.worldcat.org/title/red-skeletons/oclc/8779663 {{spaces|0}}]1927Harry CrosbyRed Skeletons{{efn|group=lower-alpha|Éditions Narcisse. This book marks the beginning of the collaboration with the printer Lescaret. Woff relates the following:
Red Skeletons, with epigraphs from Wilde and Baudelaire, the poems with titles like "Red Burial", "Black Sarcophagus", "Futility", "Gargoyles", "Lamentation" and "Black Idol" (a hymn to opium), was an act of craven idolatry. Harry soon enough recognized this, and bought up all the copies of Red Skeletons he had not sold or given away—eighty-four in number—and took them to Ermenoville, where he built a bonfire of eighty copies (around which the Crosbys danced a funeral jig) and shotgunned the rest till not a word was legible.{{refn|name=Wolff}}{{rp|140}}}}
33 (Japan Imperial, n. 1–33)
333 (Van Gelder, n. 34–366)
4 hors-commerce
?

data-sort-value=18 | A-5[http://www.worldcat.org/title/painted-shores/oclc/1952307 {{spaces|0}}]1927Caresse CrosbyPainted Shores222$600

data-sort-value=19 | A-6[http://www.worldcat.org/title/stranger/oclc/11540171 {{spaces|0}}]1927Caresse CrosbyThe Stranger
data-sort-value=20 | A-7[http://www.worldcat.org/title/fall-of-the-house-of-usher/oclc/23229219 {{spaces|0}}]1928Edgar PoeThe Fall of the House of Usher
data-sort-value=21 | A-8[http://www.worldcat.org/title/git-le-coeur-poems/oclc/4341595 {{spaces|0}}]1928Lord LymingtonGit Le Coeur
data-sort-value=22 | A-9[http://www.worldcat.org/title/impossible-melodies/oclc/3565277 {{spaces|0}}]1928Caresse CrosbyImpossible Melodies
data-sort-value=23 | A-10[http://www.worldcat.org/title/chariot-of-the-sun/oclc/5165017 {{spaces|0}}]1928Harry CrosbyChariot of the Sun44 (numbered)$4000

data-sort-value=24 | A-11[http://www.worldcat.org/title/shadows-of-the-sun/oclc/3498988 {{spaces|0}}]1928Harry CrosbyShadows of the Sun
data-sort-value=25 | A-12[http://www.worldcat.org/title/news-letter-of-the-lxivmos/oclc/259821376 {{spaces|0}}]1928naThe News Letter of the LXIVmos
data-sort-value=26 | A-13[http://www.worldcat.org/title/birthday-of-the-infanta/oclc/4677061 {{spaces|0}}]1928Oscar WildeThe Birthday of the Infanta
data-sort-value=27 | A-13b[http://www.worldcat.org/title/anniversaire-de-linfante/oclc/15734150 {{spaces|0}}]1928Oscar WildeL'Anniversaire de l'Infante
data-sort-value=28 | A-14[http://www.worldcat.org/title/hindu-love-book/oclc/10364862 {{spaces|0}}]1928naHindu Love Book
data-sort-value=29 | A-15[http://www.worldcat.org/title/sun/oclc/3907160 {{spaces|0}}]1928D. H. LawrenceSun
data-sort-value=30 | A-16[http://www.worldcat.org/title/letters-of-henry-james-to-walter-berry/oclc/20648569 {{spaces|0}}]1928naLetters of Henry James to Walter Berry16 (Japan vellum)
100 (Van Gelder paper)
$6000
$1000

data-sort-value=31 | A-17[http://www.worldcat.org/title/transit-of-venus-poems/oclc/4344089 {{spaces|0}}]1928Harry CrosbyTransit of Venus44$4500

data-sort-value=32 | A-17b[http://www.worldcat.org/title/transit-of-venus-poems/oclc/4355295 {{spaces|0}}]1929Harry CrosbyTransit of Venus200$2500

data-sort-value=33 | A-18[http://www.worldcat.org/title/mad-queen-tirades/oclc/5043399 {{spaces|0}}]1929Harry CrosbyMad Queen20 (signed)
100
Trade
$5000
$2000
$600

| data-sort-value=34 | A-19[http://www.worldcat.org/title/short-stories/oclc/1335946 {{spaces|0}}]

1929Kay BoyleShort Stories
First edition.
15 (Japan paper, signed)
150 (Van Gelder paper, numbered)
20 (Arches paper)
$1750
$1000
$1250

data-sort-value=35 | A-201929Harry CrosbyShadows of the Sun - Series Two
data-sort-value=36 | A-21[http://www.worldcat.org/title/tales-told-of-shem-and-shaun-three-fragments-from-work-in-progress/oclc/30723822 {{spaces|0}}]1929James JoyceTales Told of Shem and Shaun500 (Van Gelder, numbered)
100 (vellum, signed/unsigned)
$1750
$15000/$3500

data-sort-value=37 | A-22[http://www.worldcat.org/title/sentimental-journey-through-france-and-italy/oclc/2170426 {{spaces|0}}]1929Laurence SterneA Sentimental Journey
data-sort-value=38 | A-23[http://www.worldcat.org/title/einstein/oclc/13184746 {{spaces|0}}]1929Archibald MacLeishEinstein
data-sort-value=39 | A-241929Harry CrosbyThe Sun (Miniature)
data-sort-value=40 | A-251929Bob Brown1450-1950
data-sort-value=41 | A-251929Bob Brown1450-1950
data-sort-value=42 | A-26[http://www.worldcat.org/title/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/oclc/10644552 {{spaces|0}}]1929na The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
data-sort-value=43 | A-27[http://www.worldcat.org/title/escaped-cock/oclc/3595374 {{spaces|0}}]1929D. H. LawrenceThe Escaped Cock450 (Van Gelder)
50 (vellum, signed)
$750
$4500

data-sort-value=44[http://www.worldcat.org/title/spring-song-of-iscariot-poem/oclc/6372687 {{spaces|0}}] | A-281929Lord LymingtonSpring Song of Iscariot125 (Van Gelder)
25 (Japan)
$450
$2000

data-sort-value=45 | A-29[http://www.worldcat.org/title/secession-in-astropolis/oclc/7945740 {{spaces|0}}]1929Eugene JolasSecession in Astropolis100 (signed)$250

data-sort-value=46 | A-30[http://www.worldcat.org/title/sleeping-together-a-book-of-dreams/oclc/1471877 {{spaces|0}}]1929Harry CrosbySleeping Together500$1000

data-sort-value=47 | A-31[http://www.worldcat.org/title/liaisons-dangereuses/oclc/5156585 {{spaces|0}}]1929 Choderlos De Laclos Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Volume 1)
data-sort-value=48 | A-31b[http://www.worldcat.org/title/liaisons-dangereuses/oclc/5156585 {{spaces|0}}]1929 Choderlos De Laclos Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Volume 2)

| data-sort-value=49 | A-32[http://www.worldcat.org/title/bridge-a-poem/oclc/12839885 {{spaces|0}}]

1930Hart Crane The Bridge
First Edition.
200 (silver slipcase)
25 (hors de commerce)
50 (Japan vellum, signed)
8 (vellum, signed, lettered)
$4500
$7500
$45000
$75000

data-sort-value=50 | A-33[http://www.worldcat.org/title/47-unpublished-letters-from-marcel-proust-to-walter-berry/oclc/5787455 {{spaces|0}}]1930na47 Unpublished Letters
data-sort-value=51 | A-33b[http://www.worldcat.org/title/47-unpublished-letters-from-marcel-proust-to-walter-berry/oclc/702345922 {{spaces|0}}]1930na47 Unpublished Letters (French Edition)
data-sort-value=52 | A-34[http://www.worldcat.org/title/new-york-1929/oclc/10717157 {{spaces|0}}]1930Gretchen & Peter PowelNew York 1929
data-sort-value=53 | A-351930Harry CrosbyShadows of the Sun - Series Three
data-sort-value=54 | A-36[http://www.worldcat.org/title/new-found-land-fourteen-poems/oclc/4559313 {{spaces|0}}]1930Archibald MacLeishNew Found Land
data-sort-value=55 | A-36b[http://www.worldcat.org/title/new-found-land-fourteen-poems/oclc/4559313 {{spaces|0}}]1930Archibald MacLeishNew Found Land
data-sort-value=56 | A-37[http://www.worldcat.org/title/aphrodite-in-flight-being-some-observations-on-the-aerodynamics-of-love/oclc/18797156 {{spaces|0}}]1930Harry CrosbyAphrodite in Flight
data-sort-value=57 | A-38[http://www.worldcat.org/title/imaginary-letters/oclc/1350016 {{spaces|0}}]1930Ezra PoundImaginary Letters
data-sort-value=58 | A-39[http://www.worldcat.org/title/alice-in-wonderland/oclc/12593579 {{spaces|0}}]1930Lewis CarollAlice in Wonderland

| data-sort-value=59 | A-40[http://www.worldcat.org/title/poems-for-harry-crosby/oclc/3692668 {{spaces|0}}]

1931Caresse CrosbyPoems for Harry Crosby
First edition.
22 Van Gelder paper (lettered)
500 Lafuma paper (numbered)
$1500
$750
data-sort-value=60 | A-41[http://www.worldcat.org/title/mr-knife-miss-fork/oclc/1927100 {{spaces|0}}]1931Rene CrevelMr. Knife Miss Fork200
50 (signed)
$12500
$22500

data-sort-value=61 | A-421931Harry CrosbyChariot of the Sun : Collected Poems of Harry Crosby500$2000

data-sort-value=62 | A-42b1931Harry CrosbyTransit of Venus : Collected Poems of Harry Crosby
data-sort-value=63 | A-42c1931Harry CrosbySleeping Together : Collected Poems of Harry Crosby
data-sort-value=64 | A-42d1931Harry CrosbyTorchbearer : Collected Poems of Harry Crosby500$1000

data-sort-value=65 | A-43[http://www.worldcat.org/title/war-letters/oclc/2723816 {{spaces|0}}]1933Henry Grew CrosbyWar Letters
data-sort-value=66 | A-44[http://www.worldcat.org/title/interregnum/oclc/8211294 {{spaces|0}}]1936George GroszInterregnum
data-sort-value=67 | A-45[http://www.worldcat.org/title/collected-poems-of-james-joyce/oclc/4523878 {{spaces|0}}]1936James JoyceCollected Poems of James Joyce750
50 (Vellum, signed)
3 (Signed, lettered)
$1250
$17500
$35000

data-sort-value=68 | A-46[http://www.worldcat.org/title/surrealism/oclc/529399 {{spaces|0}}]1936Julien LevySurrealism
data-sort-value=69 | A-47[http://www.worldcat.org/title/four-poems/oclc/263172476 {{spaces|0}}]1942Sharon VailFour Poems
data-sort-value=70 | A-48[http://www.worldcat.org/title/misfortunes-of-the-immortals/oclc/3343748 {{spaces|0}}]1943Max Ernst, Paul EluardMisfortunes of the Immortals
data-sort-value=71 | A-49[http://www.worldcat.org/title/three-plays/oclc/2456316 {{spaces|0}}]1944Ramon SartorisThree Plays
data-sort-value=72 | A-50[http://www.worldcat.org/title/horses/oclc/64637646 {{spaces|0}}]1945Pietro LazzariHorses
data-sort-value=73 | A-51[http://www.worldcat.org/title/portfolio/oclc/270143293 {{spaces|0}}]19xxnaPortfolio
data-sort-value=74 | A-51b19xxnaPortfolio II
data-sort-value=75 | A-51c19xxnaPortfolio III
data-sort-value=76 | A-51d19xxnaPortfolio IV
data-sort-value=77 | A-51e19xxnaPortfolio V
data-sort-value=78 | A-51f19xxnaPortfolio VI
data-sort-value=79 | A-521948Charles OlsonY & X118+ (grey tweedweave, boxed)
400 (slipcover)
$1250
$400

data-sort-value=80 | A-52b1950Charles OlsonY & X (2nd. Ed.)unknownn/a

data-sort-value=81 | A-53[http://www.worldcat.org/title/pencil-portraits/oclc/39512954 {{spaces|0}}]1951ModiglianiPencil Portraits

=Other presses with the same name=

Poet Harvey Tucker published his work and others' in his Brooklyn-based "Black Sun Magazine" from 1965–1969.{{refn|name=Fales}}{{refn|name=Brooklyn2}}{{rp|12}}{{refn|name=Tucker}}{{rp|1}}{{refn|name=Brooklyn1}}{{rp|18,32,55}} The volumes are printed on 8.5" by 11.0" paper and bound using staples.

The author August Plinth (aka Howling Wolf and Auguste Plinth) published several books under the "Black Sun Press" label. This may have been the Brooklyn Black Sun press, Plinth's own press, or some other company.

=Apparatus=

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Notes

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References

{{reflist | refs=

{{refn|name=Fales|{{citation|title=The Black Sun Archive: Historical/Biographical Note|series=Avant Garde Collection|publisher=Fales Library, New York University|url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/blacksun/bioghist.html|date=11 Nov. 2011|accessdate=Sep. 2013}} }}

{{refn|name=CB|{{citation|title=Collected books : the guide to identification and values| last1 = Ahearn | last2 = Ahearn | first1 = Allen | first2 = Patricia | ISBN=9781883060138 | OCLC=842405442 | pages=817 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oUMxWVOI_goC}}}}

{{refn|name=Tucker|{{citation|title=The Destruction of Trinities|last=Tucker|first=Harvey|year=1968|publisher=Black Sun Press (Brooklyn)|OCLC=10081231|pages=58}}}}

{{refn|name=Brooklyn1|{{citation|title=Directory of Small Magazine/press Editors and Publishers|year=1970|publisher=Dustbooks|oclc=68000689|location=Paradise, California}}}}

{{refn|name=Brooklyn2|{{citation|title=Small press record of books, 1973-74; a listing of books, pamphlets and broadsides published by the small presses|edition=3rd|last=Fulton|first=Len|publisher=Dustbooks|year=1973|OCLC=1187204|pages=74}}}}{{rp|75}}

{{citation | publisher=Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina | url=http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/amlit/paris/crosby.html | title=Harry Crosby and The Black Sun/Editions Narcisse | year=2000}}

{{citation | publisher=G. R. Minkoff | last=Minkoff | first=George Robert | location=Great Neck, New York | year=1970 | OCLC=87855 | pages=60 | title=A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press}}

{{citation | title=Black Sun Press | last=Cox | first=Shelly | pages=22 | OCLC=17048360 | publisher=Friends of the Morris Library, Southern Illinois University | location=Carbondale, Illinois | year=1970}}

{{citation | journal=Manscript Archives and Rare Book Library of Emory University (MARBL) | volume=5 | number=1 | date=Spring 2011 | pages=5–6 | title=Shadows of the Sun: Harry and

Caresse Crosby’s Black Sun Press | last=Hildreth | first=Amy | url=http://old.web.library.emory.edu/sites/web.library.emory.edu/files/marblspring2011.pdf}}

{{citation | last=Wolff | first=Geoffrey | title=Black Sun : the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby | OCLC=566041982 | ISBN=9780394474502 | pages=367 | publisher=Random House | year=1976 | location=New York | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=hNz8cdHzTKEC }}

}}

=Scraps=

Caresse Crosby Papers at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale.

[http://web.library.emory.edu/documents/fall-2011.pdf Mentions] Black Sun Press exhibition at Emory's Manuscript and Rare Book Library

[http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/amlit/paris/crosby.html University of South Carolina] blub with links to images.

[http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/amlit/paris/crosby11.jpg To Whom It May Concern] broadsheet image from SC.

U. Illinois Carbondale has a [http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/crosby/visualsun.htm collection]; need to track down the catalog.

The Black Sun Press Collection, Auvermann und Reiss KG (Glashütten im Taunus, Allemagne), Auvermann & Reiss, 1980, 210 pages (French edition of Minkoff)