Geoffrey Wolff. Stated first edition. New York: Random House, 1976. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. No writing or markings found in the book, 367 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the 1920's and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others. Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. In this book, biographer and novelist Geoffrey Wolff's provides a subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.
