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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition of this slender poetry volume. One of only 140 copies SIGNED by Bukowski. A fine hardbound edition with decorated cloth spine. Clear acetate wrapper also in fine condition. Extra spine label laid in. One of the author's least common works from the 70's. Signed by Author.… Read more

No Place: X-Ray Book Co, 2005. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Single sheet containing a single poem by Bukowski. Copyright from Linda Bukowski. One of only 100 copies printed. Still sealed in its original clear plastic baggie. Measures 6 1/2 x 11" tall. Now quite scarce.

Hamburg: Grauwert Gallery, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. One of only 26 special hardbound copies produced for an exhibition of Montfort's photos of Bukowski. Contains an introduction and poem by Buk. SIGNED by Bukowski who has added a small drawing next to his signature. Fine condition. Cloth spine over boards with photograph of Buk on cover.… Read more

Los Angeles: Open City, 1968. First edition. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Folded tabloid newspaper. 8 pp. A separate section of Open City Magazine of the Arts. This issue edited by Charles Bukowski. With contributions by d. a. levy, Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, Willie and more. Illustrated with some grainy photographs. A very good example.

San Francisco: City Lights Books / Bitter Lemon Records, 1975. First edition. Record LP. Very Good. This offering is for a single 33 1/3 vinyl record in original sleeve. A continuous reading of poems by Bukowski recorded at the City Lights Poets Theater in San Francisco in 1973. We have not played the record, but other than being… Read more

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 12mo. Slender hardbound poetry chapbook. One of 176 special copies numbered and lettered and handbound in boards. A fine copy in fine plain white unprinted dustwrapper. Published as a New Year's Greeting for 2001.

Stockton: Wormwood Review, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled wrappers. Volume 12 Number 2 of Marvin Malone's long-running poetry journal. A clean near fine example. Includes two poems by Bukowski.

Stockton: Wormwood Review, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stapled wrappers. Volume 4 Number 4 of Marvin Malone's long-running poetry journal. A clean very good example. Includes three poems by Bukowski.

Stockton: Wormwood Review, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled wrappers. Volume 12 Number 3 of Marvin Malone's long-running poetry journal. A clean near fine example. Includes two poems by Bukowski.

Eureka: Hearse Press, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Fine. First edition. A collection of forty-two separate broadsides of various sizes laid into a printed thick paper portfolio. All elements in fine condition. These broadsides published between 1960 and 1964 and included here in toto for the first time. One of 150 copies. Notable for the inclusion of Waste Basket,… Read more

No Place: X-Ray Book Co, No date. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Single sheet broadside poem. Measures 8.5 x 5" wide. A single poem. Fine condition.

New York: The New York Quarterly, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Two issues of this literary quarterly sold here together. Edited by William Packard. Contributions by Bukowski, Robert Lowell, Stanley Kunitz, Ashbery, Sexton, Auden and much more. Both issues in clean very good condition in bound wrappers. Some staining to cover of issue… Read more

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine copy of this uncommon bit of Bukowski ephemera. This calender was produced in two different sizes. This copy is from the shorter of the two productions. Plastic spiral bound calender with humorously crude drawings by Charles Putris of Buk in his native element. Scarce.

Storrs, CT: The Wormwood Review Press, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Good +. Stapled wrappers. 40 pp. Volume Five Number Two of Marvin Malone's long-running poetry magazine. Condition of this copy is good with some general wear and some offset to the colors of the front panel. This issue notable for the inclusion of several… Read more

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Package of five postcards of black and white photographs of Bukowski contained in an unsealed cello envelope. Fine, as-new condition. An oddly uncommon ephemeral Buk item. Cards measure 4 x 6" wide.

New York: Kauri, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. November 1966 issue of this small press poetry magazine edited by Will Inman. Printed on various color paper. Slightly brittle as with most issues we have seen. A very good example in side-stapled wrappers.

San Francisco: City Lights, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Thick trade paperbound book. 478 pp. First edition of this collection of stories which originally appeared in Open City, Nola Express, Adam and other magazines. A sound very good plus copy with light cover wear. $3.95 stated price on rear cover.

Portland: Grey Whale Press, 1984. Second printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. 20 pp chapbook of poems by Bukowski. N.D., but from 1984 per Krunhansl. This is the second printing in pale green stapled wraps. Tiny bump to lower front corner else a fine example.

Stockton: Wormwood Review, 1981. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. 48 pp. Stapled wrappers with cover illustration by Bukowski. Double issue of this small press poetry magazine edited by Marvin Malone. Includes a special section devoted to Charles Bukowski entitled Good-By To Hollywood (Plus Four Drawings). Fine condition. This is #313 of 700… Read more

Harvey, IL: Midwest, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No. Issue number eight of this small press poetry magazine edited by R. R. Cuscaden. Featuring work by fifteen Illinois Poets including Doug Blazek, Dave Etter and Robert Sward among others. Very good clean copy in small stapled wrappers.