2010 by Royal Books. Only 100 copies were made when Editions Narcisse, later the Black Sun Press, printed in 1928 The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde, with illustrations by Alastair. A fine copy was offered in New York during 2010 by Hugh Anson-Cartwright Fine Books for USD$ (or about €). A near-fine copy of the first English-language edition of Max Ernst's and Paul Eluard's book, Misfortunes of the Immortals, which Caresse published in 1943, was offered for sale in 2010 by Derringer Books for £ (about € or $). In February 2014, a bookseller offered a copy of The Escaped Cock by D. H. Lawrence, signed by the author and dedicated "To John Vassos", for USD$2,500. Works The Black Sun Press published the following works. 1927, 1928 Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher 1927. Published by Editions Narcisse. Oscar Wilde: L'Anniversaire de L'Infante (Birthday of the Infanta) 1928. Nine illustrations by Alastair Published by Editions Narcisse. D. H. Lawrence: Sun 1928. Drawing by Lawrence. 1929 Kay Boyle: Short Stories 1929. Paris. First edition published by Editions Narcisse. Limited edition of 165 copies. 15 copies printed on Japanese paper and signed; 150 numbered copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen paper. Robert Carlton Brown: 1450-1930 1929. Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy 1929. Illustrations by Polia Chentoff. Published by Editions Narcisse. Archibald MacLeish: Einstein 1929. Eugene Jolas: Secession in Astropolis 1929. Paris; New York. Limited edition of 135 copies. Choderlos De Laclos: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1929. Illustrations by Alastair (Baron Hans Henning Voigt). Harry Crosby: Mad Queen 1929. Tirades; frontispiece by Caresse Crosby. Lord Lymington: Spring Song of Iscariot 1929. James Joyce: Tales Told of Shem and Shaun 1929. Three Fragments from Work in Progress (later Finnegans Wake). D. H. Lawrence: The Escaped Cock 1929 Limited edition of 50 printed on Japanese vellum, signed by Lawrence and the copy number written in longhand by him; with decorations in color by the author. Harry Crosby: Transit of Venus 1929. Paris. With a preface by T.S. Eliot. Limited edition of 570 copies printed by Harry Crosby from Dorique type. 20 lettered copies printed on Japanese vellum; 50 numbered copies on Holland paper; 500 copies on uncut Navarre. 1930 Marcel Proust: 47 Lettres inedites a Walter Berry 1930. Proust's letters to Walter Van Rensselaer Berry (1859–1927). French and English. Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland 1930. Included