Glendale, CA: Poetry X/Change, [1968]. First edition. Stiff white pictorial wraps, color "Cows in Art Class" in middle of text. A Fine copy, bright and attractive. One of approximately 400 copies of an important early collection of Bukowski's poems. More
London: Aeneis Tabulis Incidit, Iohannes Pine, 1733. 1733, 1737. Two volumes. First edition, first issue with "post est" error in the Caesar medallion on page 108 of Volume II. In a lavish full brown morocco binding with five raised bands and ornate gilt stamping to spine, borders on covers, wide..... More
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition, first printing, hardcover issue. viii, 88 pp. Dark bluish green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Penciled owner name erased from front free endpaper, still Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and a thin abrasion to..... More
Chicago: The Johnson Publishing Company, 1967. 98 pp. Wraps. An issue dedicated to Black poetry, dedicated to the memory of Langston Hughes, featuring a number of poets, many active in the Black Arts movement of the time: Gwendolyn Brooks, Dudley Randall, Etheridge Knight, Larry Neal, Nathaniel Mackey, Ed Bullins and..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Third edition. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth over tan cloth spine stamped in silver on the front cover and in gilt on the spine. Good. Lean to binding, cloth grubby and edge-worn, spine browned. Front free endpaper nearly detached, pages toned, browning to endsheets. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. 256, [4] pp. with silk screen at front. Illustrated boards with gray cloth backstrip, spine label. First edition, limited issue with signed silkscreen print at front dated 2-13-88, numbered and signed by Bukowski on rear colophon as well. Light wear to corners, Else Fine..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. First edition. Copy "X" of 26 lettered copies [in a total limitation of 426] handbound by Earle Gray and with a serigraph print bound in the front. Bound in paper-covered boards over red deluxe patterned cloth spine with paper title label; in unprinted acetate..... More
Berkeley & Forest Knolls: Burton Weiss & Jams Musser, 1999. First edition. xviii, 124, [1] pp. Publisher's marbled paper-covered boards with crimson cloth backstrip. One of 75 copies, signed by Keith Abbott on rear colophon. Fine and unread. More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. First edition of the autobiographical Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection. 78 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A little foxing to top edge, else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with tiny rub spot on front panel, light wear, unclipped. More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1866. First edition in the English language. x, 54, xviii, xv, [11], 20 pp. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth with cover design stamped in gilt to front board and repeated in blind on rear board, gilt-stamped spine, all edges gilt, brown coated endpapers. Very Good. Spine..... More
Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, 1960. First Edition. [12] pp. Publisher's white saddle stitched wraps printed in black and red on the front cover. Typical offsetting to rear wrap, staples rusted, else Fine. A very bright, attractive copy. Bukowski's scarce first book, which was published by a small California press in..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First edition, limited issue, #307 of 400 numbered copies signed by Bukowski with a small self-caricature. 280, [4] pp. Original paper-covered boards with blue cloth backstrip with paper spine label. Near Fine with tiny stain to bottom tip of front board in acetate jacket..... More
New York: The Falcon Press, 1968. First edition. Stapled wraps. Fine with typical slight toning along fold. An excellent copy of the American poet's rare first book inspired by the Holocaust and Anne Frank's famous diary. More
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. 176pp. Stated first edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Shel Silverstein on the front free endpaper to Dorothy Pfeiffer, the sister of actress Michelle Pfeiffer, with inscription reading "For Dorothy Margueritha Theresa Mullen Pfeiffer; A Name That is German and Catholic and Irish..... More
San Francisco: Four Seasons, 1968. First edition, signed limited issue. Copy number 46 of 50, signed by Richard Brautigan. Bound in publisher's original orangish cloth-backed boards with spine lettered in gilt. [xii], 108, [2] pp. Fine. A sharp copy. Poems by the late author of Trout Fishing in America. Readers..... More
