Lot 140: Proust letters published by Harry Crosby's Black Sun Press

[BLACK SUN PRESS]

47 Lettres inedits de Marcel Proust a Walter Berry. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930]. One of 50 copies on Japon (from the edition of 250 copies). Original wrappers printed in black and red, glassine, later slipcase. 11 x 9 inches (28 x 23 cm); with a portrait and facsimile of a letter. Some spotting to covers, chips to glassine, light thumbsoiling to title.

Walter Berry, Harry Crosby's cousin, was a great Francophile and friend of authors including Marcel Proust whom he met in 1916.