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1988Best.-Nr. 1287071988. First Edition. Signed. BUKOWSKI Charles. The Roominghouse Madrigals. Early Selected Poems 1946-1966. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow 1988. Octavo original half yellow cloth with paper spine label original acetate dust jacket. $950.Signed limited first edition number 120 of 400 special hardcover copies signed by the author with his signature sketch of a smoking man holding a bottle along with a flower and a dog.Characterized by its dark tone surprising lyricism and complex use of metaphor this collection of Bukowski's early poems highlights his evolution as a poet and provides an interesting glimpse into ""that wondrous and crazy timeÉ those distant hours"" when ""the typewriter was there when the job wasn't and the food wasn't and the rent wasn't."" Published simultaneously with 500 hardcover trade copies and 176 hand-bound copies including signed prints. Krumhansl 108c. A very nearly fine copy with traces of shelfwear to lower edges. hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 022661Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 250 copies signed and numbered by the author. The present copy is number 77. Bound in 1/4 lime green cloth over tan paper covered boards lettered in green and orange with yellow decorative rule yellow endpapers paper spine label lettered in dark blue. A fine copy in the publisher's acetate jacket and the publisher's announcement card laid in. Krumhansl 32b. Black Sparrow Press unknown
1988Best.-Nr. 1287071988. First Edition. Signed. BUKOWSKI Charles. The Roominghouse Madrigals. Early Selected Poems 1946-1966. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow 1988. Octavo original half yellow cloth with paper spine label original acetate dust jacket. $950.Signed limited first edition number 120 of 400 special hardcover copies signed by the author with his signature sketch of a smoking man holding a bottle along with a flower and a dog.Characterized by its dark tone surprising lyricism and complex use of metaphor this collection of Bukowski's early poems highlights his evolution as a poet and provides an interesting glimpse into ""that wondrous and crazy timeÉ those distant hours"" when ""the typewriter was there when the job wasn't and the food wasn't and the rent wasn't."" Published simultaneously with 500 hardcover trade copies and 176 hand-bound copies including signed prints. Krumhansl 108c. A very nearly fine copy with traces of shelfwear to lower edges. hardcover books
1962Best.-Nr. 31004Crescent City: Epos A Quarterly of Poetry. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps issued as Extra Issue of Epos in 1962 and sent free to subscribers c. 500 copies. This copy shows wear along the top edge for the wallet edges and 2 light shadowings on rear wrap near spine. There is also a "Community Center" stamp at the head of the front wrap and at the top of the Title/Contents page but very good to near fine otherwise. Dorbin cites this item as A2 in his Bibliograph of Charles Bukowski but Krumhansl cites it as No. 7. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 26 pp . Epos, A Quarterly of Poetry paperback
1962Best.-Nr. 31004Crescent City: Epos A Quarterly of Poetry. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps issued as Extra Issue of Epos in 1962 and sent free to subscribers c. 500 copies. This copy shows wear along the top edge for the wallet edges and 2 light shadowings on rear wrap near spine. There is also a "Community Center" stamp at the head of the front wrap and at the top of the Title/Contents page but very good to near fine otherwise. Dorbin cites this item as A2 in his Bibliograph of Charles Bukowski but Krumhansl cites it as No. 7. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 26 pp . Epos, A Quarterly of Poetry paperback books
1987Best.-Nr. 30867Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. No 46 of 140 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray numbered and signed by the author director Barbet Schroeder and the two leads Faye Dunaway and Mikey Rourke. Pattered backstrip with paper label. Fine copy in near fine clear acetate dust jacket with light scuffing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pp . Black Sparrow Press hardcover
1987Best.-Nr. 30867Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. No 46 of 140 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray numbered and signed by the author director Barbet Schroeder and the two leads Faye Dunaway and Mikey Rourke. Pattered backstrip with paper label. Fine copy in near fine clear acetate dust jacket with light scuffing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pp . Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1944Best.-Nr. 31005New 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
1944Best.-Nr. 31005New 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 books
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 1287041979. First Edition. Signed. BUKOWSKI Charles. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1979. Octavo original half red cloth original acetate dust jacket. $1750.First limited signed hardcover edition number 49 of 100 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray illustrated with an original signed silkscreen of a Bukowski drawing and additionally signed by Bukowski on the limitation page.First edition: Collected poems from some of the peak writing years of cult hero and ""laureate of American lowlife"" Charles Bukowski Time. ""Bukowski's writings presented a vision of America starkly different from other celebratory accounts of post-World War II prosperity. Barflies whores and vengeful managers populated his pages. But at the same time he made the down-and-out crapulous life seem romantic"" ANB. This is number 49 of 100 handbound copies featuring an original silkscreen by Bukowski signed ""Buk"" tipped in as issued also signed in full by the poet on the limitation page. A paperback issue a trade hardcover issue 500 copies and an unillustrated numbered signed issue 300 copies appeared in the same year. Fogel 63b. Krumhansl 68e. Minor fading to endpapers. A very nearly fine copy in the original acetate jacket. paperback
Best.-Nr. 1287041979. First Edition. Signed. BUKOWSKI Charles. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1979. Octavo original half red cloth original acetate dust jacket. $1750.First limited signed hardcover edition number 49 of 100 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray illustrated with an original signed silkscreen of a Bukowski drawing and additionally signed by Bukowski on the limitation page.First edition: Collected poems from some of the peak writing years of cult hero and ""laureate of American lowlife"" Charles Bukowski Time. ""Bukowski's writings presented a vision of America starkly different from other celebratory accounts of post-World War II prosperity. Barflies whores and vengeful managers populated his pages. But at the same time he made the down-and-out crapulous life seem romantic"" ANB. This is number 49 of 100 handbound copies featuring an original silkscreen by Bukowski signed ""Buk"" tipped in as issued also signed in full by the poet on the limitation page. A paperback issue a trade hardcover issue 500 copies and an unillustrated numbered signed issue 300 copies appeared in the same year. Fogel 63b. Krumhansl 68e. Minor fading to endpapers. A very nearly fine copy in the original acetate jacket. paperback books
Best.-Nr. 031539Andernach: Burn Again Press 1990. Limited Edition. Thin Octavo. Limited to 50 copies. The present copy is #29 signed by Charles Bukowski. Bound in original light green paper covered boards paper labels to upper board and spine green end sheets. A fine copy in original clear acetate dust jacket. Krumhansel #116. Burn Again Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 023387Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1984. Limited Edition. Octavo. 280pp. unopened. Limited to 126 copies numbered copies signed by the author. The present copy is #65 and with a small drawing of the Bukowski character on the limitation page and with an original painting by the author signed BUK. Handbound by Earle Gray in 1/4 black and gray patterned cloth spine over gray paper covered boards lettered in red orange gray blue and yellow spine label black with blue separating lines orange endpapers. Three tiny spots to upper edge otherwise near fine in original clear acetate dust jacket. Black Sparrow Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 031629Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1977. Limited Edition. Octavo. #36 of 75 copies signed by Bukowski and with an original watercolor painting of the dog from Hell with tissue guard. Alternating between tough and gentle sensitive and gritty Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love its selfishness its narcissism its randomness its mystery and its misery. Ultimately its true joyfulness endurance and redemptive power. It was later made into Crazy Love a documentary on Bukowsky which he Sean Penn Madonna Elliot Gould and his wife watched in its premier September 1987. He regarded it as the most accurate media portrayal of his poetry. Bound in 1/4 brown white green and red flecked patterned corduroy cloth over pictorial paper covered boards depicting a Gargoyle in brown lettering in red black brown and red within a turquoise frame. A fine copy. Krumhansl 6d. Black Sparrow Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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 books
Best.-Nr. 031624New Orleans; October 1963: Loujon Press. First Edition. Small Quarto. 4 97 4 errata p.97. Gypsy Lou Series N. 1. After his early poems were published in the "Little Magazines" this was his first important collection to be published. It was printed by the Webbs in 1963 in their Loujon Press. They had already published "The Outsider" and had named Charles Bukowski: Outsider of the Year 1962. Here was their first publication and in the view of many who love fine printing their finest item which was dedicated to their friend Charles Bukowski who many critics called "the poet of Skid row or of the gutter." What is unique about this volume is that John Edgar Webb has written inside the rear flap that " Third last mint copy /in stock-and oh how we/hate to part with thee/ signed Jon Edgar Webb/3/24/67" . Jon Webb wanted Buk to have some signed copies so he sent him a sliver deco-write pen giving him instructions to sign pages to be bound into volumes here there are two pages see Soanes p. 62-63 and the pastedown photograph of Bukowski above their lament with a slit across it. There is a remarkable two page letter with stamped envelope from Bukowski typewritten not a facsimile on June 14 1964 to the Webbs in sixty-two lines with his colored sketches along the borders also included is the original mailing envelope also decorated by Bukowski. Note: Bukowski had written the Webbs on May 1 about his move to a new location giving the address but it is possible they had not received it because of their recent move from Santa Fe to New Orleans Screams from the Balcony p. 107. This letter also repeats his new address of 5124 De Longpre Ave Los Angeles see Soanes p. 85ff. and then notes: "the typewriter's first sounds in these walls and a place doesn't become real until you've got the typer going eaten bathed slept and made love there--until then you haven't moved in." He then notes that Francis FrancEyE his girlfriend; Sounes says her name was Francis Elizabeth Dean who became pregnant. He offered to marry her but she was content just to bear their child Marina Louise Bukowski whose own poems were published in Chat Nois Review "is at church while I drive the old ghosts of this place out of its walls." He mentions the old location where he got into trouble with landlord cf. Sounes p. 53-55 noting the kitchen table is looking out at Hollywood Blvd. the poor part. describes a situation he recently got in at Mahawk's there he went through a plate glass window then notes also he has no shotgun like Hemingway or Van Gogh and "maybe no guts". He notes in the move he came across a copy of the Northwest Review with an article by Corrington on CHARLES BUKOWKI AND THE POETRY OF FLAT SURFACES. "If you haven't seen this one let me know and I will ship". Editor lost his job on this issue he surmises because of an interview with Castro. "Some very good poems in there by Whalen.and some interesting crap by and on Artaud. It was such an unusual edition for a university sponsored mag that I remember thinking then well the editor doesn't have much longer to go.Frances just came back from church I believe they had a reading notes participants Ray Bradbury Bard Dahl implies they had his disdain. Apparently they don't like "little magazines."I need another beer am smoking a rotten cigar the only one in the place which sometimes I shread in my mouth but I feel the tobacco need." We live next door to a religious maniac--but I'd better save that for a poem.The bookcase is us big belly of little magazines bathtub drips this place is a thousand years old but down on the ground floor.my god this is the first time I've lived on the ground--except for park benches and jails--in twenty-five years I sit here looking out on the street wishing I had a good cigar. Francis inserts ideas in the paragraph he refers to her as S.S. pen name she used as author of poem referred to earlier her paragraph mentions Hank's sunlamp he resumes after that paragraph-- wish she hadn't told you I've got a god damned sunlamp. I also have a set of barbells. I'm trying to look like Hemingway in his better days trouble is I haven't used barbells or sunlamp in the past 2 or 3 years.Francis is getting ready to hang up the plaque the one issued by the Webbs the preceding years CHARLES BUKOWSKI OUTSIDER OF THE YEAR--1962. note: When the Webbs arrived in LA two months later August 1964 they noted the plaque on the wall Soanes pp. 68-69. By God these women are useful. notes words he is thinking of. Closes with plea: God save the front tires of my cars a little longer.Buk. Bound with preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. hand-bound in stiff pictorial wrappers with cork-lined front cover attached jacket with tissue sheet tipped-on as issued and pictorial flap over fore-edge around from rear and with a photograph of Bukowski mounted to rear. Nice. Debritto A10. Loujon Press unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 031618Los 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
