Rare Fiction
The Day it Snowed in L.A.: The Adventures of Clarence Hiram Sweetmeat
Paget Press, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #5 of 200 special numbered hardcover copies, signed by Bukowski with an original drawing of a little manandbottle on limitation page. A fine copy in original yellow polka-dot cloth over boards; original mylar jacket. More
His Wife, The Painter (Hearse Broadside No. 1)
Hearse Press, 1960. First Thus. Unknown. Signed by author Charles Bukowski at bottom in black ink. This is a rare copy of the 1969 reduced-format facsimile edition, which was bound in as a frontispiece in Dorbin's 'A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski'. This example is one a handful never bound in..... More
Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters from 1960-1970
Black Sparrow Pr. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #485 of 600 numbered copies signed by author. A fine copy in original yellow cloth over boards, paper spine label; original mylar jacket. More
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems
Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #490 of 500 numbered copies signedby author. A fine copy in original blue cloth over boards, paper spine label; original mylar jacket. More
Shakespeare Never Did This
City Lights, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. The scarce first hardcover trade edition (of which only 300 copies were printed). A very good copy in a good jacket (jacket has cup ring and some coffee staining, nicks and tears to edges). Account of Bukowski's epic trip to Germany, documented by Montfort..... More
Charles Bukowski: A Critical and Bibliographical Study
ABYSS Publications [1969], 0000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition,. A good copy in the original mustard wraps (spine bumped with tears; some edge wear). Fully annotated chronological (year-by-year) bibliography, with numerous quotations from the works themselves and autobiographical interpolations. Scarce. 1 b/w photo (upper wrap). [2 ],121 pages... More
Terpentin on the Rocks (in German) (Stated First 1st Printing Edition) (Die Besten Gedichte aus der amerikanichen Alternativepresse, 1966-1977)
Maro Verlag, January 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition in original color pictorial wraps (slight creasing to spine, minor wear). Publisher's 'With Compliments' slip laid in, sent on behalf of contributor Chalres Plymell. Includes work by Charles Bukowski, Plymell, Diane DiPrima, Sam Shepard, et al. More