Lot 75
  • 75

Black Sun Press

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • A fine collection of Black Sun books and ephemera
  • ink and paper
Lord Lymington. Git Le Cœur.  1928.  One of 200 — The News Letter of the LXIVMOS.  1928. One of 450 — Oscar Wilde.  The Birthday of the Infanta.  1928.  Illustrations by Alastair.  One of 100 on Van Gelder — D. H. Lawrence.  Sun.  1928.  One of 150 — Kay Boyle.  Short Stories.  1929.  2 copies; each, one of 150 — James Joyce.  Tales Told of Shem and Shaun.  Three Fragments from Work in Progress.  1929.  One of 500 on Van Gelder — D. H. Lawrence.  The Escaped Cock.  1929.  One of 450 on Van Gelder — Bob Brown.  1450—1950.  1929.  One of 150.

Lord Lymington.  Spring Song of Iscariot.  1929.  One of 25 on Japan vellum, signed — Another copy, this one of 25 hors commerce copies in Van Gelder — Eugene Jolas.  Secession in Astropolis.  1929.  One of 10 on Japan vellum, signed — Another copy, this one of 100 on Van Gelder — Marcel Proust.  47 Unpublished Letters … to Walter Berry.  1930.  One of 200 on Arches — Another copy, being the French edition.  One of 200 on Arches.



Archibald MacLeish.  New Found Land.  1930.  One of 10 hors commerce copies — Another copy, this one of 100 on Van Gelder — Another copy, this being the first American edition, printed for Houghton Mifflin by Black Sun Press — Ezra Pound.  Imaginary Letters.  1930.  One of 50 copies on Japan vellum, signed — James Joyce.  Collected Poems.  1936.  2 copies, each being one of 750 — Julien Levy. Surrealism.  1936.  One of 1500 — Sharon Vail.  Four Poems.  1942.  One of 100.



Max Ernst and Paul Éluard.  Misfortunes of the Immortals.  1943.  One of 500 copies — Pietro Lazzari.  Horses.  1945.  One of 500 — A set of unbound proofs for Horses — Corrado Cagli and Charles Olson.  Y & X.  1948.  One of 400 — "To Whom It May Concern".  Broadsheet of Harry Crosby's suicide note.  Not in Minkoff — A very fine illustrated Bob Brown ALS, on Oranje Hotel letterhead (Soerabaia, Java), with a vivid pen-and-ink drawing on the verso.



Together, 29 items.  Condition varies.

Literature

Minkoff A-8, A-12, A-13, A-19, A-21, A-25, A-27, A-28, A-29, A-33, A-33b, A-36, A36b, A-38, A-45, A-46, A-47, A-48, A-50, A-52

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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