Spring Song of Iscariot
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. 27, [5] pp. Original publisher’s printed wrappers with French flaps, original glassine, and publisher’s cardboard gilt and silver slipcase. Slipcase split along bottom edge and missing a section of the top edge; volume about fine with very slight wear to the corners of the glassine. One of 100 numbered copies, of a total edition of 150 copies. Raised in Wyoming, Gerard Vernon Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, Viscount Lymington, fell in with the Crosbys in Paris; they “bowled him right over” and he enjoyed various decadences with them, taking a flat nearby at 1 Rue Gît-le-Coeur (the title of another his volumes of verse published by Black Sun). Minkoff A-28. Item #2505
Price: $250.00