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After Harry Crosby's suicide, Caresse dedicated herself to the Black Sun Press.
She also established, with Jacques Porel, a side venture, Crosby Continental Editions, to publish paperback books.
Their friend Hemingway offered her a choice of The Torrents of Spring or The Sun Also Rises as their debut volume.
Caresse unfortunately picked the former which was less well received than the other volume.
She followed Hemingway's work with nine more books in 1932 included William Faulkner's Sanctuary, Kay Boyle's Year Before Last, Dorothy Parker's Laments for the Living, and Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Night-Flight along with works by Alain Fournier, Charles-Louis Philippe, Paul Eluard, George Grosz, Max Ernst, and C. G. Jung.
After six months of sales the books had only grossed about US $ 1200.
Crosby was unable to persuade U. S. publishers to distribute her work, as paperbacks were not yet widely distributed and they publishers were not convinced that readers would buy them.
Her paperback books, an innovative product in the 1930s, were not well received, and she closed the press in 1933.
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