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Black Sun Press
The Black Sun Press was an English language press noted for publishing the early works of many modernist writers including Hart Crane, D. H. Lawrence, Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, Laurence Sterne, and Eugene Jolas. It enjoyed the greatest longevity among the several expatriate presses founded in Paris during the 1920s, publishing nearly three times as many titles as did Edward Titus under his Black Manikin Press.〔 Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse Crosby, American expatriates living in Paris, founded the press to publish their own work in April 1927 as ''Éditions Narcisse''. They added to that in 1928 when they printed a limited edition of 300 numbered copies of "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. They enjoyed the reception their initial work received, and decided to expand the press to serve other authors, renaming the company the Black Sun Press, following on Harry's obsession on the symbolism of the sun.
They published exclusively limited quantities of meticulously produced, hand-manufactured books, printed on high-quality paper. During the 1920s and 1930s Paris was at the crossroads of many emerging expatriate American writers, collectively called the Lost Generation. They published early works of a number of writers before they were well-known, including James Joyce's ''Tales Told of Shem and Shaun'' (which was later integrated into ''Finnegans Wake''. They published Kay Boyle's first book-length work, ''Short Stories'', in 1929. The Black Sun Press evolved into one of the most important small presses in Paris in the 1920s. After Harry died in a suicide pact with one of his many lovers, Caresse Crosby continued the press' work into the 1940s.
==Publish own works==
Harry and Caresse Crosby began publishing their own poetry in 1925.〔 One of their first two books was a volume of poetry by Caresse, ''Crosses of Gold'', printed by Léon Pichon and published in 1925. Its frontleaf bore their names in the form of a gold cross with the 'r' in Caresse intersecting the first 'r' in Harry's name. The second was Harry’s ''Sonnets for Caresse''.〔 Dissatisfied with the quality of the printing of these books they sought out Roger Lescaret, a master printer, whose shop at No. 2, Rue Cardinale was not far from the Crosbys' apartment in Paris. His previous works had been limited to funeral notices,〔 but that did not deter them. Lescaret printed Harry Crosby's next collection of poetry, ''Red Skeletons'', with illustrations by their friend Alastair, as well as other volumes of poetry including Harry Crosby's ''Painted Shores'' (1927), said to be heavily influenced by Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe. They were so happy with the result that they decided to start a press to publish other works.〔 They followed with two books by Caresse, ''Painted Shores'' and ''The Stranger''.〔
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