Harry; Henrietta Grew CROSBY ( editor ). War Letters.

by CROSBY

£2,750 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Grieving Mothers in Solidarity – ‘Our Boys are at Rest’ CROSBY, Harry; Henrietta Grew CROSBY ( editor ). War Letters. Paris: The Black Sun Press . 1932. 4to. Original marbled calf-backed boards with patterned paper sides, spine gilt-ruled in compartments with two green morocco lettering pieces, patterned endpapers, tricolour silk place-marker, tail-edge uncut; pp. [8], vii, [1 (blank)], 312, [6], photographic portrait frontispiece of Crosby in uniform, with tissue guard, p. 305 with twelfth line from bottom blacked out as usual; extremities a little rubbed, light spotting to text block and to prelims, otherwise a very good copy; loosely inserted printed visiting card of ‘Mrs Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby’, inscribed in ink ‘Dear Rita | It was lovely seeing you yesterday. I wish we met oftener. I hope you’ll enjoy these letters. I always feel a great bond with you but our boys are at rest and saved from the hard things of life. Much love | Rita’ ( see below ). First edition, limited to 125 unnumbered copies printed on Navarre paper, of these letters from the front by Harry Crosby – founder of the Black Sun Press – edited by his mother, Henrietta Van Rensselaer Crosby ( née Grew, 1872–1957) and published in the aftermath of Crosby’s death by suicide in 1931, our copy with a loosely inserted visiting card inscribed by Henrietta to another mother who had lost her son. Born into New England’s influential and long-established Van Rensselaer family, Harry Crosby, a nephew of J. P. M

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