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. 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, 2000. Hardbound in acetate dust jacket. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies with an original silk-screen print by Bukowski. Photo postcard of Bukowski laid in. One corner slightly bumped, small indentation to bottom of front board, else fine. More about Open All Night: New Poems
[Stockton, CA: Wormwood, 1991]. Pamphlet. First edition. Published as Nos. 122 & 123 of The Wormword Review the entire issue devoted to Bukowski poems. One of 630 numbered copies (of a total edition of 700). Very fine. More about People Poems: 1982-1991
[Glendale, CA: Poetry X/Change, 1968]. Pamphlet. First edition. A fine, bright white copy (pin-head-size speck of wear). More about Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window
London: London Magazine Editions, 1973. Hardbound in dust jacket. First British edition of Bukowski's first novel. Top corners very slightly bumped, else fine and bright. More about Post Office
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1999. Hardbound in acetate dust jacket. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies with an original silk-screen print by Bukowski. Fine. More about Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters 1978-1994
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
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
Sudbury, MA: Jeffrey Weinberg, 1984. Pamphlet. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. Early, probably the first, comprensive rare book dealer's catalog devoted to Bukowski. Illustrated with drawings by Buk and photographs of him by Michael Montfort. Minute tap to corner, else fine. More about Under the Influence: A Collection of Works by Charles Bukowski
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]: Olympia Press, [1970]. First edition of this Paperback Original. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Cover photo by Ira Cohen. The author's first book, an account of his days as a methedrine addict. Evocative of his father's first book, Junkie. Some wear, very good. More about Speed
[Gottingen: Expanded Media Editions, 1973]. Softbound. First edition thus. Fine. (Bilingual English/German text.). More about Ali's Smile
London: Jonathan Cape, [1970]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First British edition. An excellent collection of interviews with Burroughs. Bright, very near fine copy (tiny stray mark to front panel of dj). More about The Job
[London]: Picador, [1995]. Softbound. Uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Features Charles Burn's excellent illustration of Burroughs on the front cover. Very fine. More about My Education: A Book of Dreams
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...
n.p.:n.p., [1965]. Burroughs is standing on a fire escape in NYC in the sixties. He's wearing a suit, tie, and fedora, and is holding a cigarette at waist level. He's looking directly into the camera with a deadpan, classic Burroughsian look. One of the best shots of Burroughs we've seen..... More about Terrific original b&w photograph of William Burroughs (recent print
[SF]: Auerhahn Press, 1960. Small 4to. Softbound. First edition. Cover illustration by Brion Gysin who also contributes. Superb presentation copy inscribed to poet and publisher, Ted Berrigan: "For Ted Berrigan / William S. Burroughs / Dec. 11, 1953 (Burroughs meant 1963) / New York." Also signed by Brion Gysin on... More about The Exterminator
n.p.: Privately published, 1975. The Colloque de Tanger symposium was held in Geneva in 1975 to celebrate the work of Burroughs and Gysin. This poster prints Legarde's The New Reformers photo of Burroughs' and Gysin's heads superimposed on the torsos of two statues (Martin Luther and friend). Printed in black... More about Large poster announcing: ''Le Colloque de Tanger...William Burroughs---Brion Gysin A Geneve du 24...
[NY]: Viking, [1995]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Important presentation copy warmly inscribed by Burroughs to his long-time friend, fellow drug researcher, and counterculture hero, Timothy Leary: "for Tim Leary, who contributed to my education more much more than I realized at the time. We are here to learn!... More about My Education: A Book of Dreams
[NY]: Viking, [1986]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Briefly inscribed by the author. The hardcover printing was small. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. More about The Book of Nods
Louisville, KY: White Fields Press, 1994. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Carroll. Prints the poem "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain," plus an interview with Carroll about the Beats, drugs, Catholicism, and more. Illustrated with photographs. Published as Heaven Chapbook Series No. 50. Very fine. More about Poem, Interview, Photographs