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023386Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1983. Limited Edition. Octavo. . Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is #48 signed and numbered along with original art by Bukowski bound in after title page with paper guard present. This is a collection of short stories of everyday life; people places and of course partying drinking women sex and more. A fine bright copy bound in 1/3 maroon cloth decorated in blue over cram paper covered boards lettered and decorated in black pink blue yellow purple and orange in the original clear acetate dust jacket very lightly rubbed a light sprinkling of foxing to front fore-edge of leaves. Black Sparrow Press unknown
1987045655Munchen: Albrecht Knaus 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Michael Montfort. First German edition signed by Bukowski with a small drawing on the title page. Slight creasing to jacket. Size: Folio. Illustrator: Michael Montfort. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 045655. Albrecht Knaus hardcover
024018Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1982. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 350 copies. The present copy is #98. 283 2 pp numbered. Bukowski's Chinaski in Ham on Rye slips into drunken self-destructive behavior that leads at the end of the book to the implication that he will eventually become homeless. As Bukowski's stories and poems slowly became sought after he was usually in need of financial help until the end of his life when he was paid to give readings to major universities. Bound in ¼ goldenrod cloth over pictorial paper covered boards lettered and ruled in blue red yellow and gray paper spine label in cream paper with lettering in red and blue blue endpapers in the original acetate dust jacket. A fine copy. Krumhansl #74d. Black Sparrow Press unknown
1996023411Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press 1996. Limited Edition. Octavo. . Limited to 201 copies. The present copy is #15 which he had dedicated to his wife Linda Lee. He had been deathly ill with leukemia for over a year. He had just finished Pulp when he died March 9 1994. He never saw this production though there is a page tipped in with his signature which he must have done in advance of its publication. A fine copy bound by Earle Gray in 1/4 red cloth over pictorial paper covered boards lettered in red light blue and black paper spine label lettered in black in its original acetate dust jacket. Krumhansl 150. Black Sparrow Press unknown
1968031618Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1968. First Edition. Octavo. #6 of 75 copies signed and numbered and with an inscription on flyleaf: "For Lee Rolland wife of Richard Roland co-owners of Either/Or Books Shop Hermosa Beach direct from Terror Street Charles Bukowski 5-7-68". This copy is in a mixed state: While it does contain the original tipped in painting by Bukowski a double tan paper spine label printed lengthwise in red and the colophon has Bukowski's name above the colophon and with the number 6 in red below the colophon it also contains the Zinc cuts used for the blind stampings of an excerpt of a Bukowski letter "l.a. Sunday August 20 hello Mike…." excerpted from a letter to Michael Forrest. The excerpts read from tail to head on the verso of the third leaf recto of the title page and the recto of the last leaf. Zinc cuts were also used for blind stampings of illustrations by Bukowski located on the sixth leaf verso of the half-title and the leaves between pp. 42-43 and pp. 66-67 and the last page. Verso of the title page printed is a 13 line introduction by the author. Hardbound in multicolored blue red violet green and yellow cloth. What makes this one of the most important of Bukowski's books is found in his printed letters Screams from the Balcony pp. 327-330 Bukowski to John Martin publisher of Black Sparrow May 20 1968 "Your beautiful check and the 20 copies of Terror Street.check $460 from his letter on June 4 1968 to Jon and Louise Webb was more than I expected. In a previous letter to Carl Weisner early May 1968 he writes: "I have been doing paintings in the kitchen….this bird Martin wants 75 small paintings which will be mounted in the back of the special hardcover copies of Terror Street. I've made about 60 paintings up to now and he wants 20 more and he says he can pick them up Monday. I've done 6 these editors just don't realize that paintings can't just be made up….each painting must come from the balls like a f.k few men can f.k six times a night 20 i.e. paintings is just impossible. To make it an especially nice copy the Either/Or Book Store was frequented by Bukowski Pynchon and a host of people who loved small press poetry and counterculture books. A fine and desirable association copy. Krumhandsl #27. Black Sparrow Press unknown
31211Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Handbound handlettered 1 of 50 numbered and signed by the author. Lettered calligraphically in green ink over a blue circular design. Handbound in green silk cloth covered boards . A white vellum label hand-lettered by Roger Marcus mounted on the front cover. Marbled endpapers. In unprinted glassine dust jacket. Krumhansl 57.; 2 1/8 x 2" 6.6 x 5.1cm; Unpaginated pp . Black Sparrow Press hardcover
199731088Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. No. 191 of 226 numbered copies fine. Issued as a New Year's Greeting for friends of the publisher. Bukowski died in 1994. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Black Sparrow Press hardcover
031636Tempe AZ May 1995: Synaesthesia Press. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 243 copies. The present copy is #59. Bukowski's 1964 essay: "A Depressive State of Affairs for Kings Writers and Elevator Boys"--basically his ideas on being an honest writer versus pandering to the academic community--which he uses as an example Robert Creely. He accuses old professors of being driven by the knees and thighs of 19 year old girls who do not pull their dresses down in hopes of getting a "B" in English. Bound in light gray pictorial paper wraps with Bukowski's line drawings faint crease to rear wrap. Nearly fine. Synaesthesia Press unknown
194431005New York: Story Magazine Inc. 1944. First Printing. Periodical. Wraps Bukowski's first appearance in print possibly following a story in Write magazine never seen very good with a few small corner creases and with rubbing at the edges and folds. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 104 pp . Story Magazine, Inc. unknown
