Chariot of the Sun. Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. Second, limited edition.

Published by Paris: Black Sun Press, MCMXXXI

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4to. 18 x 23cm. Original wraps. One of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper. Small stain on front cover and small ink stains on back cover.; spine repaired.- Minkoff A42; Published in Paris p.409; Roberts Lawrence (2001) B33 (vol.I); Gallup Eliot (1969) B18 (vol.II); Gallup Pound (1983) B25 (vol.IV). (4).OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1471910.Notes:"This edition . being volume 1 of the Collected poems . is printed in hand-set dorique type at the Black sun press, Paris, 1931 under the direction of and for Caresse Crosby . Fifty numbered copies on Holland paper . no.22."Caresse published this work 2 years after Harry killed his lover Josephine Rotch and himself. Crosby revered Rimbaud, and with Rimbaud's self-deregulation in mind, believed in his own idealizations of suicide. To his wife, Caresse Crosby, he had proposed suicide pacts on several occasions since early in their relationship.He wrote about such pacts in his poems and in his diaries, and he talked about them, most consequentially, with the most significant of his many mistresses, Josephine Rotch Bigelow, with whom he was found dead in bed?a bullet hole to her left temple, a bullet hole to his right temple, his right hand holding a .25 caliber pistol, his free hand joined in Josephine's?in a New York hotel room on December 11th, 1929. The couple was fully clothed, and there was no suicide note. They had consumed immense quantities of gin and opium pills, not unusual for Harry, or his "fire-princess," as he called Josephine, who, like himself, was thoroughly a product of Back Bay Boston. Had Josephine been the first to call Harry's bluff, and insist that he carry through in action the belief he expressed to her, that the greatest expression and fulfillment of love was for two lovers to die together in suicide?"Minkoff, A-42. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:752499446. Morgan Library Accession number: PML 184723 /Provenance? Collection of Dr. Gregory R. Bonomo.

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Title
Chariot of the Sun. Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. Second, limited edition.
Author
Crosby, Harry (1898 -1929); Caresse Crosby, printer; T.S. Eliot., preface.
Publisher
Paris: Black Sun Press, MCMXXXI
Condition
Good
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Soft cover
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