CROSBY, Harry.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Red Skeletons. First edition, number 291 of 333 copes on vergé de Hollande Van Gelder Zonen, from a total edition of 370 copies, of which few have survived. The impulsive author disavowed the work and "bought up all the copies... he had not sold or given away - eighty-four in number - and took them to Ermenoville, where he built a bonfire of eighty copies (around which the Crosbys danced a funeral jig) and shotgunned the rest till not a word was legible" (Wolff).

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