[Rarebooks] FS: Crosby, The Passionate Years

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CROSBY, CARESSE (1891-1970). 

 _The Passionate Years._ 

 New York: The Dial Press, 1953. 

 8vo. 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches. [x], 342 pp. Printer's device on title page,
5 double-sided plates of black-and-white photographs; text clean,
unmarked. Two-toned cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket in archival
mylar; binding square and tight, minor dust-soiling, jacket (price
intact) with small chips and tears at edges. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
"For Delia, Whose passionate emotion to "the Passionate Years" has been
a delight. Gratefully, Caresse, April 7, 1953." Very Good. 

$ 150 

FIRST EDITION of Caresse Crosby's autobiography. Caresse Crosby (born
Mary Phelps Jacob) was "an American patron of the arts, publisher, and
the 'Literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in
Paris.' She and her second husband, Harry Crosby, founded the Black Sun
Press, which was instrumental in publishing early works of many authors
who would later become famous, including Ernest Hemingway, Archibald
MacLeish, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Kay Boyle, Charles Bukowski, Hart
Crane, and Robert Duncan." Wikipedia. Replete with anecdotes about the
literary luminaries that filled Crosby's world and her bohemian
life-style. 

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