Sonnets For Caresse by Crosby, Harry - 1926

Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1927. Fourth edition. Softcover. g. 30/44. Quarto. Unpaginated 36pp. Original plain wraps with tan stiff dustjacket with red and black lettering and frames on cover, red vignette and black frame on back cover. Title page printed in red and black. This fourth and last edition contains twenty-four sonnets with red initials printed to Japan paper with limitation page, numbered by hand at rear. The first edition contained 30, the second 37, and the third edition 48 poems. Dustjacket with some wear along edges, small chips and tears along spine and top edge of back cover. Reinforced with transparent tape at lower third of spine, rubbed. Six inch closed tear along top of inside flap of dustjacket, three inch closed tear at top of flap at back cover. Illustrated Ex-Libris on inside front cover with signature of owner James S. Furr. Note by Furr above Ex-Libris. Block age-toned. overall in good condition. Henry Crosby (1898-1929) was the heir to one of the richest Boston banking… Read More

Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1927. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1927; #24 of a hand-numbered edition of 44. Quarto (24.5cm x 16.5cm) in original cream wraps with red and black titles and borders on front and small Narcissus figure printed on back in red. Nineteen unpaginated leaves, sewn in wraps. Small black leather ex-libris bookplate with Harry and Caresse Crosby's 'Crosby Cross' in gilt fixed to front cover verso. Very small stylized sun image imprinted on front end page. An exceptionally well-preserved copy, with original glassine jacket and thick clear plastic protector. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Paris: Herbert Clark Printer, 1926. Second Impression. leather_bound. Full contemporary stained roan. Very good. Unpaginated. 21 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 27 copies. Thirty seven poems in this printing, probably intended for a select group of friends for commentary and review, most were evidently inscribed by Crosby, but this copy is not. Bound by Lafon. Backstrip with slight loss head and foot, red leather spine label printed in gilt, marbled endpapers.

Paris: Albert Messein, 1926. Edition limited to 108 copies, this one of 100 on Arches paper; 12mo, pp. [8], 48, [1]; original maroon printed wrappers and contained in a hand-painted veined vellum binding, neatly lettered on spine, and bearing a pencil inscription on a flyleaf "Jo from Caresse Paris 1927." Minkoff A3-c: "Copies were bound again in vellum (cream color with gold web-like patterns). Front and back covers have rectangular ruled borders, one part of which is lavender. Spine is hand-lettered in black..." This third edition contains 48 poems; the two earlier editions contained 30 and 37 respectively, and the fourth edition of the following year only 24.

Paris, Albert Messein, 1926. . Third edition, number 12 of 100 copies on papier vergé d'Arches, from a total edition of 108, inscribed by the poet; 12mo; very minor spotting to first blank, else contents fresh and bright; original vellum, hand-painted boarders, spine hand-lettered in black, top edge gilt, gold and purple marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in, slight warping to boards, else very good. misc23 Inscribed by the poet in green ink to the first blank: '"Il erre, éveillant les échos, / et ses pas, sonnant sur les dalles," / for Gérard / affectionately / from Harry / Paris MCMXXVII'.This third edition contains 48 poems; the two earlier editions contained 30 and 37 respectively, and the fourth edition of the following year only 24. Minkoff A-3c.

Hardcover. 12mo. Original vellum, lettered in manuscript on the spine, hand-painted borders on boards, gold and purple marbled endpapers, original printed wrappers bound-in. Paris, Albert Messein 1926. Third Edition. Minkoff A-3c. Limited to 100 copies on Arches. This copy inscribed by Harry Crosby: 'Helenka from Harry Paris MCMXXVII.' Helenka was probably Helenka Adamowski Pantaleoni, the Broadway and film actress, intellectual and great beauty who later founded the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and became the president of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. Adamowski met Harry at Harvard when he was a student after World War I. She remembered him at this time as being 'an incredibly sensitive, high-strung, poetic individual who was wound up to such a pitch that even in those early days I wondered whether he would survive the year.' . . . Harry once took her to the Harvard-Yale boat races in New London, hired an airplane and insisted that the pilot essay some aerobatic stunts. The pilot refused, but 'Harry did… Read More