mjp
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There is another thread here about Amber O'Neil's Blowing My Hero (well, actually, the thread is about Born Into This, which is why I started this new thread), wondering why it is so expensive when a copy comes on the market, and that discussion made me think of this:
This Oro Madre publication called Going Modern was printed in an edition of 500, but the story is the Bukowski was unhappy with the quality of the publication, so John Martin "suppressed" it, and most copies were destroyed.
Yet I see this thing all the time. For every copy of Blowing My Hero that comes up, I must see at least five copies of Going Modern. So what's the story? Anyone know if the bulk of these were actually destroyed? I wonder. Any documentation or correspondence between/from Bukowski or Martin on this?
This Oro Madre publication called Going Modern was printed in an edition of 500, but the story is the Bukowski was unhappy with the quality of the publication, so John Martin "suppressed" it, and most copies were destroyed.
Yet I see this thing all the time. For every copy of Blowing My Hero that comes up, I must see at least five copies of Going Modern. So what's the story? Anyone know if the bulk of these were actually destroyed? I wonder. Any documentation or correspondence between/from Bukowski or Martin on this?