1935. Leather-bound. This is an actual white leather baby shoe, not a book. SIGNATURES Amelia Earhart Roscoe Turner; Frank Hawks (aka “Meteor Man”); (Later-to-become Admiral) R.E. Byrd (VERY faint, above bottom seam, down and to the left of Earhart’s signature) Shoe is nested in a decorative, hinged, wooden box, with... More
NEW YORK: Lucis Publishing Company, 1944. Second Edition. Hardcover. Details five stages of meditation as a rational practice, allowing controlled and conscious use of the mind and a blossoming of the intuition. 271 pp. Light rubbing to extremities, front and rear boards. Light bumps to all four corners. Moderate creasing... More
San Francisco: twowindows press, 1970. Paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. LIMITED EDITION 1000, with 50 copies in separate bindings signed by author. Red lettering to spine and front of grey covers. Unpaginated. Clean, tight, solid. Introduction by Charles Bukowski. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, in brick-red, cloth-covered boards, with contrasting (black) square, lettered in red, to front board and spine. Bright copy with just a bit of light rubbing to extremities at spine caps and corner, two of which are bumped, but not... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Light soiling to covers. Mild crease to back cover. Tiny closed tear to top of last page. Tan illustrated front cover, red lettering. 281 pp. Clean, tight, bright. The tournefortia is a large tropical tree, ideally suite to the Southern California... More
Los Angeles: Cannon Films, Inc. 1987. Paperback. Official press kit from Barbet Schroeder's film adaptation of Charles Bukowski's original (some might argue) autobiographical screenplay, issued by Cannon Films, and starring Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway and others. Bukowski himself describes his screenplay as "an account of several nights in my life... More
Sutton West (CA) and Santa Barbara, CAL: Paget Press, 1984. Illustrated by the author. FIRST THUS. Paperback. First paperback printing. Perfect bound in stiff black paper wrappers of yellow, red and blue on black background. Sharp copy of first edition, paperback issue, with "'little man' drawing, reproduced in red, with... More
Santa Monica, California: Lagoon Video (Distributor), 1987. Cassette. Edited by French filmmaker Barbet Schroeder and Paul Challacombe. Two VHS videotapes, 2-hours each, with a total of 52 short intereviews, Edited from 64 hours of footage, over the three-year period during which Charles Bukowski was writing the screenplay for the autobiographical... More
Santa Cruz, California: Mutant Drone Press, 1984. Softcover. Second Printing. A MINIATURE book, measuring 3 1/16 in. x 3 3/4 in. Wine-colored covers with a black on white rag-edge title label to front. containing a brief excerpt from POST OFFICE -- Bukowski's notorious account of his work as a temporary... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1969. Paperback. Published 26 December 1969, published as a [1970] Near Years to the Friends of the Black Sparrow Press in an edition of 400 copies, 100 of which were signed by author and numbered. NOTE: This copy SIGNED by Bukowski on title page, but NOT... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Pamphlet. Hand-sewn pamphlet in stiff gray paper wrappers. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 8.25" x 5.25" (21 13.3 cm.). Published January 1979 as a New Year's Greeting to the friends of the Black Sparrow Press. Just a bit of shelwear, edgewear and corner-thumbing... More
Minneapolis, MN: Goldermood Rainbow Press, 1981. Bookslinger. Broadside. BROADSIDE. First Edition. 1 poem on 1 sheet, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (16 1/2 X 11.4 CM.) Stiff black paper, with printing in shaded white. SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI, IN WHITE AT BOTTOM. One of 1,000 copies, published in May of... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. FIRST EDITION. Staplebound Pamphlet. Printed February 1984 as a New Year's Greeting for the friends of the Black Sparow Press. Staple-bound in yellow paper-covered boards measuring 6" x x 4 ". Double title page. 6 unpaginated leaves, printed in black, pink and green across... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. FIRST EDITION. Staplebound Pamphlet. Printed February 1984 as a New Year's Greeting for the friends of the Black Sparow Press. Staple-bound in yellow paper-covered boards measuring 6" x x 4 ". Double title page. 6 unpaginated leaves, printed in black, pink and green across... More
Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. Hardcover. First edition, hardcover, numbered, signed, with an original silkscreen print -- 87/l50, plus Bukowski's signature and a little drawing on limitation page at rear. Transparent archival mylar cover. Shelf rubbing along top and bottom edges. More
Storrs, Connecticut (USA): Wormwood Review, 1977. Paperback. Prose Poem by Bukowski, who, interestingly, was the most frequently published poet in Wormwood Review, appearing in 97 issues. 12-page center section of poems by Lin Lifshin. Also poems by Carl Larsen and others. Light blue card covers, faintly stamped "Public Library, Mill... More
1970. Paperback. Bukowski photo on the cover, A SIXTEEN-PAGE interview with Charles Bukowski, conducted by William J. Robson and Josette Bryson, as well as a poem ("Looking for the Giants"), and full page photograph of Buk with the interviewer. Also, a fabulous poem -- "A Talisman for the New Year"... More
Los Angeles, California: Wetzel Publishing Co. 1945. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. "...the experiences of a transcontinental bus driver and his passengers". Inscribed and SIGNED to an apparent colleague and friend, front free endpaper. Dustjacket torn and chipped at edges with lower half of rear flap missing, and lower third of... More
London, England: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. First British Printing. Hardcover. VERY bright coffee-with-cream-colored boards, with red-and-silver spine label. Just a hint of rubbing to extremities, if one looks very hard for it. Shelfwear to price-clipped dustjacket, which has done its job of protecting this first British edition of a groundbreaking environmental... More
Cambridge, U.S.A. Privately Printed At The University Press, 1912. Hardcover. Lovely early, assumed first edition of this title, in deep burgundy-red boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Privately printed. Boards and textblock bright, clean and tight with the slightest hint of wear at board corners, but no bumping... More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with spine tites in gilt. Covers bright, Usual slight bumps to bottom of spines from shelving and also slight bumping to corners as usual. Previous owner's name to front pastedown of two volumes and front endpaper of Volume I.... More
London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Hardcover. 64mo (2.5" x 2.25") Violet boards (front board faded), bound with original violet cord. Paste-on to front board showing a little green-clad Brownie seated atop a toadstool. Color frontis depicting the Brownie named Nimble-te-Hop (who had been asked to the Brownie's Ball, due... More
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 1968. Hardcover. STATED FIRST PRINTING. Mild wear to extremities. Black lettering on mustard-yellow, cloth-covered boards. 17 black and white sketches, 2 fables. 151 pp. Clean, bright, tight. Early tales and sketches inspired by Sullivan County in New York state. "Of major interest in the volume... More
Chicago, IL: Thompson and Thomas, 1905. Second Edition. Hardcover. Anecdotes about and advice to hardworking salesmen on the road. Brilliant blue cloth with pale yellow highlights and black lettering. Fabulous design on the front of a locomotive belching a huge, ropy cloud of steam. 16 wonderful illustrations by J.J. Gould... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1976. Hardcover. ASSOCIATION COPY. Inscribed to Director of Literature Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts. AUTHOR SIGNED, with is address. FIRST EDITION of last living work by this unsung giant of American literature. Light edgewear. Sunning to jacket spine. Jacket now Mylar... More
