San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1974. Hardcover. Limited to 425 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy for the Book Club of California. [3]45 [3] pages. 8 plates [including the frontis and foldout map]. Original Leaf tipped-in between pages 32-33. Folio. Black cloth spine over red boards decorated 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

Japan: Hokuseido PRESS, [1950] 1974. Sixteenth Printing. Hardcover. Bright beige woven linen over boards, very clean, with clear black lettering to front boards and spines. Title page coffee-stained. Light wear to dustjacket extremities. 379 pp. Single card laid in at the front, Japanese text, as well as a tipped in... 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

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 Press, 1991. FIRST EDITION. Staplebound Pamphlet. Printed January 1991 as a New Year's Greeting for the friends of the Black Sparow Press. Staple-bound in taupe. Measures 7 in. x 4.5 in. (l7.8 ll.4 cm.)Printed in black, blue, green and purple across front cover. Robin's Egg blue... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Pamphlet. Staplebound pamphlet. Cover shows orange cube (with gold circle) balanced upon its tip over purple rectangle against sky-blue field. Black lettering, and 11-point gilt line across right half of bottom. Red endpapers. 3 or 4 very tiny spots to top rear. Tiny... 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, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition copy, numbered and SIGNED by the author, of which this copy is #142 of 400 copies published on November 16th,1984. Gray paper label on spine printed in black and blue. Orange endsheets. Red and gold false headband. Variation... 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