[Tempe, 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..... More
Los 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..... More
Santa 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..... More
Los 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..... More
Santa 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..... More
Santa 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..... More
New 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..... More
Santa 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..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 750 copies. The present copy is #326 and signed by Bukowski with his little dog as well on the page following the title page. 202 pp. This would be Bukowski's last work before his death. Unlike Bukowski's earlier autobiographical..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Octavo. . Limited to 150 copies. The present copy is # 136. signed by Bukowski in the colophon and additionally signed on the original tipped in silkscreen print by Bukowski dated 2-13-88. Bound by Earle Gray in 1/4 gray cloth over paper..... More
Santa 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..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 100 copies with an original signed tipped in silkscreen print signed and dated 7/86. The present copy is #40 signed by Bukowski with a small drawing of a little man and jug. Bound by Earle Gray in 1/4 purple..... More
Santa Rosa, Ca: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 140 copies numbered and signed by Charles Bukowski, Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway and Barbet Schroeder. The present copy is #75 and includes a small drawing by Bukowski beside his name. 125pp., The film was produced and directed by..... More
[Compton]: Greybeard Press, 1990. Limited Edition. Large Folio (21 ¼" x 19" x 1 5/8"). Limited to 75 copies. The present copy is an A/P (Artist Proof) signed by Charles Bukowski and James W. Johnson). A book-in-a-box structure with a rounded spine containing 10 mezzotints with 2 additional mezzotint etchings..... More
Sutton West and Santa Barbara, (1984): The Paget Press. First Edition. Octavo. . 161(2) pp. illustrated by the author. This work is an original screenplay which later became a movie produced and directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Faye Dunaway and Mickey Rourke. A lovely near fine copy bound in black..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by the author and with an original thickly painted art piece by the author. The present copy is #19. The poems in the first three sections of this book were originally published in three volumes..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 50 copies. The present copy is #26 signed by the author and with original art tipped in at the front. A raw and unflinching collection of poems about ordinary survival and fleeting moments of beauty. With his trademark mix..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Limited edition of only 75 copies. The present copy is #26 signed by the author and with an original art tipped in at front. A gritty, episodic novel about Henry Chinaski, a drifter in 1940s America who bounces from one low-wage..... More
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Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. Limited Edition. Folio. Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is #77 signed by the author and designed by Barbara Martin. 1 sheet. 14 3/4 " x 8 3/4" on tan laid paper, 42 lines printed in black, title red, illustrated with an orange..... More
Santa Rosa, Ca: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First Edition Limited. Octavo. 202pp. signed Bukowski after the bound in original Bukowski print depicting a shooting. Limited to 300 copies, the present copy is #231. A fascinating novel of a detective on his last legs, booksellers and publishers and characters in the..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 225 copies, The present copy is #145 signed and with his little drawing by the author, with an original silkscreen print signed BUK 2-90. 375 pp. Hand bound by Earle Gray in 1/4 red cloth over decorative paper covered..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. Limited Edition. Octavo. 189(2) pp. Limited to only 50 copies signed by Bukowski. The present copy is number 47 with an original painting by the author signed with tissue guard present. A collection of 27 hilarious stories which features two of Bukowski's finest and..... More
Santa Barnara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 200 copies. Illustrated. The present copy is number 100 signed by the author. Bound in 1/4 purple fine ribbed corduroy cloth over yellow paper covered boards lettered in outline in red and purple, central line drawing executed by Bukowski..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 75 copies. The present copy is number 41 signed by the author and with a hand-colored image by Bukowski of Theodore's kiss of Lilly that haunted Margie. Illustrated by the author. Hand bound in 1/4 purple and red..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 75 copies. The present copy is number 42 signed by the author and with a hand-colored cover illustration by Bukowski in red and black ink depicting Lilly at home laying down with her breast exposed while presumably touching..... More