Ham on Rye (Ltd. and signed)
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. Item #024018
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).
Price: $1,500.00