Crosby (Harry) Red Skeletons, number 17 of 33 copies on Japon Impérial, from an edition limited to 370, printed in red & black, 9 colour plates by Alastair with captioned tissue guards, later crushed burgundy morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, covers with single gilt fillet, spine panelled and lettered in gilt with five raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut, with original printed wrappers bound in, 4to, Paris, Editions Narcisse, 1927.

⁂ Scarce work by the eccentric author and publisher Harry Crosby, an expatriate American who led an extravagant and decadent lifestyle in Paris during the 1920s. With his wife he founded the publishing company Editions Narcisse, later renamed the Black Sun Press, which issued high quality limited editions of the works of notable authors. This particular work is scarce due to Crosby destroying the 84 remaining copies by burning or shooting at them.