Love Poem to Marina: Broadside Poem.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1973. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy. This broadside measures approximately 9 x 15.
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Beat Scene Magazine No. 20. A Charles Bukowski Special.
Coventry: Beat Scene, 1994. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy. This special Bukowski issue was published six months after Buk's death and features Buk letters, unpublished poems, and interview, reviews and tributes. According to the publisher, this was the magazine's biggest seller and has been sold.....
Charles Bukowski: A Bibliographic Price Guide.
Salem: Barker, 1983. Limited Edition. A Fine tight copy in bright yellow paper wraps. This is one of only 200 copies produced. This copy is signed by Barker with addenda sheets laid in. Though the prices quoted in this early price guide are out-dated, the bibliographic information is solid. 56.....
Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski.
New York: Random House, 1991. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Cherkovski reproduces many of his favorite Bukowski poems and little fragments of prose and then analyzes them insightfully in relation to the Bukowski's life. Cherkovski was a good.....
Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski.
New York: Random House, 1991. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Cherkovski reproduces many of his favorite Bukowski poems and little fragments of prose and then analyzes them insightfully in relation to the Bukowski's life. Cherkovski was a good.....
Whitman's Wild Children.
Venice: Lapis Press, 1988. First Paperback Printing. A Fine copy in self-wrap paperback binding. The author (a long-time friend of Bukowski) has written a series of anecdotal profiles on ten important writers including--besides Bukowski-- John Winers, James Broughton, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg, William Everson, Gregory Corso, Harold Norse.....
Small Press Review. Vol. 4, No. 4. May 1973.
Paradise: Len Fulton, 1973. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good copy in original wraps. staple bound. This issue of the Small Press Review is dedicated to Bukowski and features tributes and assessments by Linda King, Sandy Dorbin, William Packard, Felix Pollak and Len Fulton.
Africa, Paris, Greece. Sparrow 30.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy with college library stamp to cover and hole-punched along the spine. This collection contains 8 Bukowski poems.
Anthology of L.A. Poets. Edited by Bukowski, Cherry, Vangelisti.
Los Angeles: Laugh Literary/Red Hill Press, 1972. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in brown stiff paper wraps with a small abrasion to the rear cover. This collection contains four poems plus a three page introduction by Bukowski. Other poets include Jack Hirschman, Linda King.....
At Terror Street and Agony Way: Poems.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Printing of the First Paperback Edition. A Very Good plus copy of this 2nd state of the paperback issue where the misspelling on the front cover has been corrected with a white label. According to Krumhansl there were only 18 copies of the.....
Barfly: the Continuing Saga of Henry Chinaski. Illustrated by the Author.
Sutton West: Paget Press, 1984. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition. A Fine copy in a lightly rubbed mylar dust jacket. This Canadian edition is the true First Printing, preceding the US edition by 3 years.
Barfly: The Shooting Script, 4th Revision.
N.P. Cannon Films, 1987. Fourth Revision. A Near Fine copy of this Xeroxed version of the Barfly screenplay, brad bound in stiff paper covers. Barfly is a 1987 American film which is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles. The screenplay.....
Beer--Cerveza.
Buenos Aires: 1995. Limited Edition. A Fine copy of this large double page broadside reprinting Bukowski's poem in both Spanish and English translated by Federico Luduena. This limited edition was done in an edition of only 100 numbered copies of which this copy is unnumbered. It measures 17" x 23.5".....
Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in Acetate dust jacket. 1/526 copies with Bukowski serigraph. In 1960, Bukowski began an eight year correspondence Sheri Martinelli who at the time published a literary magazine called Anagogic & Paideumic that Bukowski submitted poetry.....
Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine, unread copy in a Fine acetate jacket. Betting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukowski writes about the real life of a working man and all that comes with.....
BFR4.
Berkeley: Berkeley Fiction Review, 1983. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy of this literary magazine. This issue features Bukowski's short story, "Fooling Marie" which was later collected in his story collection Hot Water Music.
Black Sparrow Press 1966-2001: A Postcard Poem.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy of this postcard poem "I Pour a Drink and Toast Love" by Bukowski published by Black Sparrow Press in celebration of their 35th year in business. Not issued for sale but sent out to the.....
Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. First Printing of the Limited Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in acetate dust jacket. This is one of 426 copies with a Bukowski serigraph. The poems in this collection are part of an archive of unpublished works that Bukowski left to be published.....
Bring Me Your Love.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1983. First Paperback Printing. A Near Fine copy with some light smudging to front cover. A short story illustrated by R. Crumb that tells the story of a man visiting his wife in an asylum.
A Bukowski Sampler.
Madison/Houston: Quixote Press, 1969-83. Various Printings. Here are all three of the different printings of this collection of works by and about Charles Bukowski. The first printing in the orange cover by the Quixote Press; the second printing (in the blue cover) and the third printing brought out by Douglas.....
A Bukowski Sampler. Edited by Doug Blazek with forwards by Blazek, Walter Lowenfels, Morris Edelson and William Wantling.
Houston: Quixote Press, 1983. 2nd Edition (though stated 3rd printing). A Very Good plus copy in cream-colored, illustrated wraps; sticker residue on the rear cover. This Bukowski selection features poems and excerpts from some of his stories. 96 pages.
A Bukowski Sampler. (Contains "The Way the Dead Love" a novel excerpt not in the first edition.).
Madison: Druid Books, 1973. 2nd Printing of the 2nd Edition. A Fine tight copy in Fine blue illustrated paper covers. This sampler features "A Few Notes on this Book to Confuse You and Essentially tell you Nothing," "A Rambling Essay on Poetics and the Bleeding Life Written while Drinking a......
Come on In: New Poems.
New York: Ecco Press, 2006. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine wraparound jacket-band. This posthumous volume of new verse gathers everything devotees cherish and expect: horses and bets, lousy SROs, unreliable women, sexual conquests, sexual disgust, barbs at highbrow rivals, advice to.....
Confession of a Coward: A New Year's Greeting.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Paperback printing. A Fine copy in cream paper wraps. This posthumously published autobiographical story concerns his realtionship with his first wife Barbara Frye. The story was written in 1956 following his long hiatus from writing and years before he achieved literary notoriety. It.....
Dangling in the Tournefortia: Poems.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. Limited Edition. #125 of 300 numbered & signed copies. A Fine tight copy in a Fine acetate dust jacket. This is one of Bukowski's best collections of poetry, written shortly after he’d “made it” with musings about his new found comfortable life in San.....