The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
First edition, limited issue. Number 163 of 250 copies signed by Charles Bukowski on the limitation page at rear. 153, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's printed paper-covered boards over lime green spine cloth, yellow endpapers; lacking the original acetate jacket. Faint sunning to spine, else Fine. A fantastic copy. Bukowski's publisher John Martin later said of this collection:
"He was in a sense a contemporary Whitman. A poet for the people. When he was a young man writing out of anger and despair, he wrote the kind of poem you find in The Days Run Away, poems that took risks, with long, extravagant lines. He took every chance in that book, and made it work."
Price: $1,200