Sonnets for Caresse
by Crosby, Harry
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- Hardcover
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21315
- Title
- Sonnets for Caresse
- Author
- Crosby, Harry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Albert Messein
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- Black Sun , Caresse Crosby , Harry Crosby ,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bindings;
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Vellum
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- Spine
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