Diaries of Harry Crosby. Edited by Edward Germain. 
 
Black Sparrow Press: 1977. One of thirteen hundred first edition trade copies. Hardcover in an acetate jacket. Octavo. Acetate jacket has some minor wrinkling on its corners and easily cleaned soiling. 304 pages. Book is near fine. 
 
"Crosby's life was a religious manifestation. His death was ... a death from excess vitality." Surprising as it is to say this about Ezra Pound, here his quote understates it. Poet-publisher Crosby's life was the wild side of the Lost Generation, with matching tattoos of black suns on the soles of his feet and an honored murder-suicide pact. 
 
"The pursuit of knowledge more adventurous than the pursuit of big game but not, no a hundred times not, as adventurous as the pursuit of Beauty (Sun-Beauty)."