Thanks Bill. Yep, this is the 68 edition. I think the second edition was from 75.
Have you seen Bukowski make a correction to a published book before? I'm surprised that he would even notice such a small detail...
I just bought a signed copy of Poems Written Before Jumping... off eBay. On leafing through the book, I noticed that there was a correction made on page 33. The poem is 'The Hairy Hairy Fist, And Love Will Die'. I'm wondering whether this was made by Bukowski or someone else. It seemed a bit odd...
'Then one day I pulled a book down and opened it, and there it was. I stood for a moment, reading. Then like a man who had found gold in the city dump, I carried the book to a table. The lines rolled easily across the page, there was a flow. Each line had its own energy and was followed by...
You gotta be kidding me. This copy can be yours for a mere $360 from good old Heroes Bookshop.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=15112655529&searchurl=x%3D0%26y%3D0%26sts%3Dt%26kn%3Dbukowski%26vci%3D962073
Happened upon this one on ebay. I'm no expert but this looks like a pretty obvious forgery. Not only does the signature look wrong (it has a 32 in it to start with), but why would Hank inscribe an 80s paperback to John Martin? It's a BSP book from the 60s, just doesn't make any sense. And even...
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