Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition. Wraps. 8vo, 89pp; original wrappers, with printed white label on front to correct misprint in the title. One of only 800 copies in wrappers; there were also 75 hardbound copies with an original Bukowski drawing. This was Bukowski's first book with the..... More
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: Paget Press, (1984). First Edition. 8vo, 161pp; original printed wrappers. The correct first edition, printed in Canada, and preceding the U.S. edition by three years. This copy, although not called for, has been signed by Bukowski on the half-title page. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First Edition. 8vo, 144pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 400 numbered copies handbound in boards, signed by Bukowski, and with an original signed color serigraph portrait of Bukowski by R. Crumb bound in at the front. More
New York: Lyle Stuart Inc., (1965). First edition. 4to, 101pp, printed on multicolored paper of varying size and stock; original stiff printed wrappers. One of 3100 copies in the edition, handset and printed by Louise and Jon Webb in New Orleans and issued as Gypsy Lou Series #2. This copy..... More
New York: Lyle Stuart, (1965). First edition. 4to, 101pp; original wrappers. One of a stated 3100 copies in the edition, signed and dated by Bukowski at the colophon. As with all Loujon Press productions, the book is marked by a whimsical style using multi-colored papers of varying stocks and even..... More
New York: Lyle Stuart, (1965). First edition. 4to, 101pp; original wrappers. One of 3100 copies in the edition, signed and dated by Bukowski at the colophon. Loosely inserted is a separately printed broadsheet, printed on both sides with blurbs about the book obtained from various friends and allies of Loujon..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. 8vo, 283pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 750 hardcover trade copies (there were also 350 numbered and signed hardcover copies), this one has been signed by Bukowski on the title page. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo, 361pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. One of 400 numbered copies containing an original signed serigraph print by Bukowski. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. 8vo, 125pp; cloth-backed pictorial boards. An additional copy to the limited issue of 100 numbered, hand-bound hardcover copies signed by Bukowski and with an original signed silkscreen print by him, this one is not numbered, but is marked "Printer's Copy/RH" and is..... More
Berkeley/Glendale: Litmus/Poetry X Change, n.d. (1968). First edition. 8vo, [16] unpag.; original printed illlustrated wrappers. One of an unknown but small number of copies in the edition, a mimeo pamphlet in glossy wraps. More
Andernach: Burn Again Press, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, unpag.; light green boards with printed labels on front cover and spine. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Bukowski, the entire edition, published ostensibly in the town of his birth in Germany and marking his seventieth birthday. One of Bukowski's scarcer..... More
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1961-65. All published. Five volumes in four, 8vos, 101, 112, 138, [198]pp; wrappers; with a second copy of the final double number in cloth. The complete run of this unique and important magazine, best known for publishing the early work of Charles Bukowski. Each issue was..... More
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1961-1969. All published. 5 vols. in 4; 8vos, 101, 112, 138, [198]pp; original wrappers. The complete run of this unique and important magazine, best known for publishing the early work of Charles Bukowski. Each issue was hand set and printed by letterpress and reflected publishers Jon..... More
Santa Barbara, California: Helmut Bonheim and Raymond Federman, 1962. 8vo, 32pp; wrappers, stapled. Scarce mimeograph magazine featuring contributions from John Thomas, Carol Berge, George Hitchcock, Larry Eigner, and others, most notably Charles Bukowski whose long poem "WW2" appears here for the first time. An autobiographical text, and one of Bukowski's..... More
(San Francisco): Scrimshaw Press, 1971. First edition. Cloth. 4to, unpag.; gray cloth stamped in black, with mounted photograph on front board. The first substantial monograph on Bullock, this copy has been inscribed and signed by the photographer on the first blank leaf. More
-. Two and a half pages, on three sides of a bifolium, approx. 5 X 8 in. A substantial and somewhat agitated letter from the great conductor to the concert impresario. Hans von Bülow (1830 -1894) was perhaps the most renowned conductor in Germany in the nineteenth century, instrumental in..... More
Berlin. -. Four pages, on a bifolium, approx. 4-1/2 X 7 in. Marie von Bülow (1857-1941), actress and wife of the great Wagnerian conductor Hans von Bülow, writes at length to the Jewish writer who used the male pseudonym "Ulrich Frank," and was sometimes known by her later married name..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First American edition. 8vo, 302pp; blue-green cloth stamped in gilt and blind after a Beardsley design. Uncommon U.S. edition made of sheet from the London first edition. More
London: A. Millar, et al, 1754. First English edition. 8vo, [xii],368, [20], includes index and errata in rear; contemporary mottled calf with gilt borders and spine rules, red leather label. Originally published in French, this was the first proper biography of Grotius, the great Dutch-born philosopher and legal scholar whose..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 297pp; brown cloth with printed spine label. The first book by Burke, one of the high priests of literary modernism, was this collection of short stories. He became one of the most influential literary critics and theorists of his generation..... More
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London: J. Murray, 1814. First Edition. Small 8vo, [i-viii] + 128pp; plain wrappers, trimmed, with marbled edges. Includes the advertisement leaf in front describing the two texts, both published here anonymously, and explaining Byron's wish to include the Rogers text as well as his unsatisfied wish that it be placed..... More
London: John Murray, 1814. First Edition. Small 8vo, xi + 100pp, plain wrappers, agressively trimmed with marbled edges. First issue -- the second was expanded to 108 pages by the addition of more poems. Trimmed to a significantly smaller size than issued, with the resultant loss of the imprint at..... More
Hollywood: The Screen Writers' Guild, Inc., 1946. First edition. 8vo, 18pp pamphlet in printed self-wrappers, stapled. An offprint from the July 1946 issue of "The Screen Writer," this is Cain's presentation of his proposal for an organization to aid screenwriters in negotiating with producers and studios. The "Cain Plan", as..... More
