![Item #2265 Collected Poems. Chariot of the Sun, [with] introduction by D.H. Lawrence; Transit of Venus, with a preface by T.S. Eliot; Sleeping Together, with a memory of the poet by Stuart Gilbert; Torchbearer, with notes by Ezra Pound. Harry Crosby.](https://www.trioletrarebooks.com/pictures/medium/2265.jpg?v=1676596671)
![Collected Poems. Chariot of the Sun, [with] introduction by D.H. Lawrence; Transit of Venus, with a preface by T.S. Eliot; Sleeping Together, with a memory of the poet by Stuart Gilbert; Torchbearer, with notes by Ezra Pound.](https://www.trioletrarebooks.com/pictures/2265_2.jpg?v=1676596670)
Collected Poems. Chariot of the Sun, [with] introduction by D.H. Lawrence; Transit of Venus, with a preface by T.S. Eliot; Sleeping Together, with a memory of the poet by Stuart Gilbert; Torchbearer, with notes by Ezra Pound.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. First edition. Four volumes in publisher's slipcase. 68; 62; 65, ix; 44, viii pp. Original publisher’s cream wrappers, lettered in red on the front cover and spine and black on the front cover. Number 41 of an edition of possibly 500 on Lafuma (see below). Two inch strip of light browning to the spine tail of volume III; slipcase is slightly soiled and shows an old repair to one joint but is solid. An excellent set.
Following Harry Crosby’s suicide in 1929, Caresse Crosby edited his collected poems for publication, comprising three volumes that had previously been published (volumes I-III), supplemented with unpublished work that was gathered in Torchbearer. A preface written for Chariot of the Sun by D.H. Lawrence, but omitted from the first edition, served as an introduction to the first volume of the set, and commentaries for the other volumes were commissioned from Eliot, Gilbert and Pound.
The colophon states the edition to be 20 lettered copies on Japanese Vellum, 50 numbered copies on Holland Paper and “the sheets for five hundred copies on uncut Navarre.” Despite this, Harry F. Marks, the American agent for the edition, “stated that to the best of his knowledge, the sets on Japanese vellum were never printed, and the full fifty copies on Holland [...] were probably not published.” (Gallup, Pound). Gallup further notes that: “No copy on Holland paper has been seen. At least several of the Navarre copies were numbered, in some instances with numbers between 1 and 50 theoretically reserved for the Holland sets. In the Navarre copies the paper is watermarked: PAPETERIES LAFUMA.” Gallup also records two variant bindings; one dated “1931” at the foot of the spine and the other (as here) with the author's name at the foot of the spine.
Minkoff A-42; Published in Paris p. 409; Roberts, D.H. Lawrence, B33; Gallup, T.S. Eliot, B22; Gallup, Ezra Pound, B25. Item #2265
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