Tucson: Loujon Press, 1969. Edited by Jon and Lou Webb. The hardbound issue, limited to 500 copies in pictorial boards and fragile tissue dust jacket. A double issue featuring a large section devoted to Kenneth Patchen. Contributions by Bukowski, Ginsberg, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Meltzer, di Prima, Norse, and many... More about The Outsider, No. 4/5, Winter 1968-1969
n.p.: Blackrose Editions, 1983. Broadside poem, folded as issued, printed on four sides. First separate printing of Bukowski's first appearance in print originally published in Story magazine. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Bukowski (of a total edition of 176). Handsomely printed by the Grenfell Press. Very fine. More about Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip
Leesburg, VA: Bottle of Smoke Press, [2003]. 8vo. Small broadside poem tipped into a brown printed folder with a cover illustration by Bukowski. First separate printing. One of 100 numbered copies (from a total edition of 126). Fine. More about Afternoons into Night
Leesburg, VA: Bottle of Smoke Press, [2003]. 8vo. Small broadside poem tipped into a maroon printed folder with a cover illustration by Bukowski. First separate printing. One of 26 lettered copies, this being copy "A" (from a total edition of 126). Fine. More about Afternoons into Night
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991. Broadside poem. First edition. Published for the friends of the Black Sparrow Press on the occasion of the San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival. As new. More about The Bluebird
n.p.:n.p., [1994]. Small single sheet folded to make four pages. Issued in 1994 by Green Hills Mortuary in Palos Verdes to announce the time and place of Bukowski's funeral. Also features the first separate printing of a section of Buk's poem, "If We Take." A small number of copies were..... More about Charles Bukowski's Funeral Announcement
n.p.: Yonco, 2000. Broadside poem. First edition. Limited to 30 copies initialed by the artist Mark Scammell. When John Martin of Black Sparrow Press saw this unauthorized publication being offered for sale he immediately suppressed it and demanded that they be destroyed (even if the publisher ignored John's request the... More about Framed Stark Dead
LA: Freeway Records, 1985. LP record. Bukowski reading live for more than an hour. Jacket photo by Michael Montfort. Mint record in excellent jacket. More about Hostage
n.p.: Bottle of Smoke Press, [2009]. Small poetry card. First edition. Issued in an edition of 700 copies for friends of the press. Printed in black and red on white textured stock. As new (5.5" x 4.25"). More about I Saw a Tramp Last Night
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1995. Hardbound in acetate dust jacket. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine. More about Living on Luck: Selected Letters 1960s-1970s
n.p.: Bottle of Smoke Press, [2009]. 8vo. Broadside poem. First edition. Limited to 26 copies for the friends of John Martin. Nicely printed in black on yellow textured stock. As new. More about Mannequins
n.p.: Bottle of Smoke Press, [2009]. 8vo. Broadside poem. First edition. A broadside issued for the friends of John Martin. The regular issue was limited to 26 copies on yellow stock, however this special copy is printed in black on thick brown card stock as a gift for John Martin... More about Mannequins
[Berkeley]: Verdant Press/Jeff Maser, 2003. Broadside poem. First edition. Issued on the occasion of the 36th California Antiquarian Book Fair. Nicely printed. As new. More about My Cats
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993. Hardbound in acetate dust jacket. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Bukowski. Bukowski has also done a drawing of a litttle man with a bottle. Fine. More about Run with the Hunted
[NY]: Harper Collins, [1993]. Hardbound, issued without a dust jacket. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author (of a total edition of 226). Fine in publisher's slipcase (couple of pin-head-size specks to slipcase). More about Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader
n.p.:n.p., [1963]. A pen and ink line drawing in red and black that puts one in mind of flames burning inside a wire cage. This is the original drawing that John Martin used to make a smaller serigraph print that he bound into special copies of Living on Luck. Signed..... More about A striking early original abstract drawing by Bukowski
LA: Black Sparrow, 1966. Broadside poem. First edition. Limited to 27 numbered copies signed by Bukowski (of a total edition of 30), this being copy No. 4. Of the 30 copies some are in institutional libraries---others haven't survived the passage of years---and when a survivor does surface it's inevitably in... More about To Kiss the Worms Goodnight
Washington: Black Sun Press, 1946. Folio. Broadside poem. First edition. Bukowski's first separately published work. Originally issued in Black Sun Press' Portfolio 111, but here offered separately. Minor edge-wear and a few minute edge tears to right edge, else near fine. More about ''Twenty Tanks from Kasseldown.''
LA: Synaesthesia Press, [2009]. A "magazine" assembled and edited by Jim Camp as a tribute to Wallace Berman's Semina. Consists of a black envelope printed in silver containing various small broadsides, a found color transparency, photos, and a colophon sheet printing Berman's "Art is Love is God" quote. Limited to... More about Volta, No. 2
[LA]: Choke Publications, 1977. Oblong 12mo. Pamphlet. First edition. Photographs and texts document Burden's B-Car project where he designed, built, and tested a one passenger car that would achieve speeds over 100 miles per hour while maintaining 100 miles per gallon fuel efficiency. As new and scarce thus. More about B-Car
NY: Privately published by Dan Burley, 1944. Softbound (only issued softbound). Second printing. Illustrations, including the terrific zoot-suit-wearing hepcat cover illustration, by Melvin Tapley. Inscribed by Burley: "To a real hepcat / on the other side / of the big drink / Paul Graae--- / Dan Burley / '48 /... More about Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlem Jive
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing on a fire escape in N.Y.C. in the sixties. He's wearing a suit, tie, and fedora, and is in the process of taking a puff on his cigarette. He's looking directly into the camera with a deadpan, stoned, classic Burroughsian look. A shot that epitomizes..... More about Fabulous original b&w photograph of William Burroughs (recent print
NY: High Risk, [1995]. Softbound. "Advance uncorrected proof" in printed glossy wraps. Fine. More about Ghost of Chance
England: The British Journal of Addiction, 1957. 8vo. Offprint of Burroughs' first periodical appearance, and his first appearance under his own name, in the January 1957 issue of The British Journal of Addiction. First separate printing of this long statement by Burroughs on his experiments with various drugs and different... More about Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs, in a suit, is holding his umbrella, his hat is perched on a torso sculpture on the floor next to him. Taken by a friend of Burroughs using Burroughs' camera, ca. 1965. Never published. Fine (8" x 10"). More about An original b&w photograph (recent print) of William Burroughs and an unidentified young man...