Short Stories by Kay Boyle

BOYLE, Kay. Short Stories. Paris, The Black Sun Press, Éditions Narcisse, 1929.

First edition, one of the original 185 copies, of Boyle’s first work of fiction.

A political activist and writer from Minnesota, Kay Boyle was a close friend of Harry and Caresse Crosby, the owners of the Black Sun Press. Her Short Stories were critically acclaimed upon publication.

The Black Sun Press was an English-language publishing house based in Paris. Founded in 1927 by American expatriates Harry and Caresse Crosby, it published the early works of influential literary figures such as Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Crane, D. H. Lawrence, and Hemingway. The books, all handset, were typographically impeccable and beautifully bound. The Black Sun Press closed in 1970, following Caresse Crosby’s death.

Octavo, pp. 55, edges untrimmed; a clean copy in the original printed wrappers with fold-over flaps enclosed in a glassine dust jacket, with the publisher’s gold paper-covered board slipcase (glassine dust jacket browned at spine and slightly chipped at head and tail, some light damp staining to back cover, board slipcase worn and chipped at tail with tape repair).

Minkoff A-19.