Publisher · France · defunct since 1970
Black Sun Press
English-language publisher in France. Founded 1927. Ceased 1970.
About 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, 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. American expatriates living in Paris, Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse Crosby (American inventor of the modern bra) 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.
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Approaching Black Sun Press as an author
Black Sun Press is no longer an active publisher (defunct since 1970). Its books may still be in print through successor companies or available second-hand and in libraries.
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- Structured data from Wikidata Q2905475 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).