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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.

Primary Bibliographies and Catalogs

 * (GB3100.05)
 * Lists output from 1927–28, beginning with Painted Shores and ending with a note that Sterne's Sentimental Journey was in preparation.


 * . (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."


 * (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)


 * (GB3100.3)
 * Descriptive bibliography of all work published by the Crosbys.


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

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

Other presses with the same name
Poet Harvey Tucker published his work and others' in his Brooklyn-based "Black Sun Magazine" from 1965–1969. 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.

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

Mentions Black Sun Press exhibition at Emory's Manuscript and Rare Book Library

University of South Carolina blub with links to images.

To Whom It May Concern broadsheet image from SC.

U. Illinois Carbondale has a 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)