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Black Sun Press was an English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 book publisher founded in 1927 as Éditions Narcisse by poet Harry Crosby
Harry Crosby

Harry Crosby was an United States heir, bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature.Born Henry Sturgis Crosby in Boston, Massachusetts's exclusive Back Bay, Boston neighborhood, he was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England and the nephew of the son of J....
 and his wife Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob
Mary Phelps Jacob

Mary Phelps Jacob was a poet, publisher, peace activist, and a New York socialite. She was instrumental in publishing some of the early works of important authors including James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, D....
), who at the time were expatriate
Expatriate

An expatriate is a person temporarily or permanently Residency in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence....
s living in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. The name was changed to Black Sun Press the following year.

Originally established by the Crosbys with the intention of publishing their own writings in small editions of finely-made, hard-bound volumes, the Black Sun Press evolved into one of the most important small presses in Paris in the 1920s.






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Black Sun Press was an English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 book publisher founded in 1927 as Éditions Narcisse by poet Harry Crosby
Harry Crosby

Harry Crosby was an United States heir, bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature.Born Henry Sturgis Crosby in Boston, Massachusetts's exclusive Back Bay, Boston neighborhood, he was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England and the nephew of the son of J....
 and his wife Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob
Mary Phelps Jacob

Mary Phelps Jacob was a poet, publisher, peace activist, and a New York socialite. She was instrumental in publishing some of the early works of important authors including James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, D....
), who at the time were expatriate
Expatriate

An expatriate is a person temporarily or permanently Residency in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence....
s living in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
. The name was changed to Black Sun Press the following year.

Originally established by the Crosbys with the intention of publishing their own writings in small editions of finely-made, hard-bound volumes, the Black Sun Press evolved into one of the most important small presses in Paris in the 1920s. The Crosbys would publish a number of eminent 20th century authors, including D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an England author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
 and James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
, both of whom were friends of Crosbys. Additional authors published by the Black Sun Press include Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle

Kay Boyle, born February 19, 1902 in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States ? died December 27, 1992 in Mill Valley, California, was an award-winning writer, educator, and political activist....
 (her first book), Hart Crane
Hart Crane

Harold Hart Crane was an United States poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote poetry that was traditional in form, difficult and often Archaism in language, and which sought to express something more than the ironic despair that Crane found in Eliot's poetry....
 (the true first edition of his landmark book-length poem "The Bridge", replete with three tipped-in photographs by Walker Evans), Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an United States expatriate poetry, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist poetry movement in the first half of the 20th century....
, Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernism school of poetry. He has received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work....
, Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story author, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, France, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation"....
, Eugene Jolas
Eugene Jolas

Eugene Jolas was a writer, translator and literary critic....
 and Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
.