Robert Menzies McAlmon was an American writer, poet, and publisher. In the 1920s, he founded in Paris the publishing house, Contact Editions, where he published Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, James
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
Robert McAlmon
…Grim Fairy Tales Contact, Paris 1925 [Photo-reprinted as There Was a Rustle of Black Silk Stockings. 1963] The Infinite Huntress and Other Stories. Black Sun Press, Paris 1932 A Scarlet Pansy (under pseudonym Robert Scully), William Farro, Inc. (Roth), 1933…
Cover of Tales of Shem and Shaun by James Joyce published by Caresse Crosby and Harry Crosby, owners and publishers of the Black Sun Press.
Cover from Transit of Venus, poetry written by Harry Crosby and published by Black Sun Press, in 1929.
Illustration by Alastair from Harry Crosby's book Red Skeletons, published in 1927.