Author: Crosby, Harry; (1898-1929);
Title: 8 Love Poems. First Edition of the Broadside
Description: Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress in red on slate paper. 40.5 x 30.2cm. Marginal tears.. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Harry Crosby – self indulgent socialite, tortured poet, wealthy mystic -. a playboy who lived his life with reckless abandon – was a man both adored and reviled. He has been described by some as “a representative figure of the so-called Lost Generation”, the bohemian 1920s... A godson of J.P. Morgan Jr. Harry was a Harvard graduate and a decorated war veteran, who had left school to become an ambulance driver in France with his upper-crust chums during World War I. He ended up with the Croix de Guerre for valor and, after a few frustrating years back in Boston, fled to Paris for the rest of his short life. Married in 1922 to Mary Phelps Jacob, known as “Caresse”, they lived the “ultimate Bohemian lives as poets, artists, and patrons in Paris in the 1920’s. To every adventure their answer was always ‘yes’.” Harry once sent a telegram from Paris to his father, the quintessential sober, patriarch, which read, “Please sell $10,000 worth in stock. We intend to live a mad and extravagant life.”.. While living and writing in Paris Harry Crosby founded The Black Sun Press, one of the “finest small presses of the twentieth century”. In 1924, the Crosbys went public with their first book. The following year, they each published their first collections of verse. Harry commissioned Alastair – a “spectacularly camp” German creator of beautifully decadent and Gothic fantasies – to illustrate his second collection, Red Skeletons. Soon they were issuing works by other writers, including Poe, James, Wilde, Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. .
Keywords: 777
See more books from our catalog: Ephemera
Title: 8 Love Poems. First Edition of the Broadside
Description: Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress in red on slate paper. 40.5 x 30.2cm. Marginal tears.. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Harry Crosby – self indulgent socialite, tortured poet, wealthy mystic -. a playboy who lived his life with reckless abandon – was a man both adored and reviled. He has been described by some as “a representative figure of the so-called Lost Generation”, the bohemian 1920s... A godson of J.P. Morgan Jr. Harry was a Harvard graduate and a decorated war veteran, who had left school to become an ambulance driver in France with his upper-crust chums during World War I. He ended up with the Croix de Guerre for valor and, after a few frustrating years back in Boston, fled to Paris for the rest of his short life. Married in 1922 to Mary Phelps Jacob, known as “Caresse”, they lived the “ultimate Bohemian lives as poets, artists, and patrons in Paris in the 1920’s. To every adventure their answer was always ‘yes’.” Harry once sent a telegram from Paris to his father, the quintessential sober, patriarch, which read, “Please sell $10,000 worth in stock. We intend to live a mad and extravagant life.”.. While living and writing in Paris Harry Crosby founded The Black Sun Press, one of the “finest small presses of the twentieth century”. In 1924, the Crosbys went public with their first book. The following year, they each published their first collections of verse. Harry commissioned Alastair – a “spectacularly camp” German creator of beautifully decadent and Gothic fantasies – to illustrate his second collection, Red Skeletons. Soon they were issuing works by other writers, including Poe, James, Wilde, Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. .
Keywords: 777
Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5895
- Book number: 16-5895
See more books from our catalog: Ephemera