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Brother Schenker
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1st edition The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills, Black Sparrow, P.O. Box 25603, Los Angeles 90025
Beauti-ful and Other Long Poems, Wormwood Review chapbook, 1988
Various Wormwood Reviews with Buk inclusions & Buk solo chapbooks from early 60s, mint conditions, sold to me by Marvin Malone
Beauti-ful and Other Long Poems, Wormwood Review chapbook, 1988
Various Wormwood Reviews with Buk inclusions & Buk solo chapbooks from early 60s, mint conditions, sold to me by Marvin Malone
mjp
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What's that letter, then - is it addressed to you? It looks good framed. A good talking point, you might say.
On your bookshelves there's a big, fat yellow book with Bukowski printed down the spine. What's that? I've never seen it before.
Man, I love your collection. What book's the painting in?
Cheers.
On your bookshelves there's a big, fat yellow book with Bukowski printed down the spine. What's that? I've never seen it before.
Man, I love your collection. What book's the painting in?
Cheers.
Rekrab
Usually wrong.
My favorite Bukowski item, sentimental choice: 2 1970s letters from Buk to my old pal, poet and small press editor, Leo Mailman. Leo rather innocently cut the signature and drawing from one letter (aghh!!!!), leaving a big hole in the page. He needed it for the paste-ups of one of his zines. He might have used a Xerox copy in his paste-up and preserved the letter, but few of us thought like that in those days. We were poets, not collectors. Leo edited NAUSEA, MAELSTROM and a MINI-REVIEW. He died about 15 years ago. A great guy.
Favorite for beauty, rarity and sheer wonderfulness: CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND, Loujon Press book, very fine copy in wrap-around band. A gorgeous book in gorgeous condition. I keep this one in plastic. Maybe I need a beater copy to read at breakfast with my coffee and buttered toast?
Good topic.
Favorite for beauty, rarity and sheer wonderfulness: CRUCIFIX IN A DEATHHAND, Loujon Press book, very fine copy in wrap-around band. A gorgeous book in gorgeous condition. I keep this one in plastic. Maybe I need a beater copy to read at breakfast with my coffee and buttered toast?
Good topic.
Alas, my favourite Buk item in my collection is nothing fancy.
It's a tie between a BSP 1st edition of Betting on the Muse, and a 1st edition of The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship. I really enjoyed that book, with Crumb art inside.
It's a tie between a BSP 1st edition of Betting on the Muse, and a 1st edition of The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship. I really enjoyed that book, with Crumb art inside.
zoom man
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Beautiful, nymark,
Thanks for sharing.
Any chance of me squirming into your will?
Man, really though,
What do you plan to do with such pieces?
Have them auctioned off after your death?,
Or let them be buried with you,
And if that's the case,
May I interest you in a beautiful, private plot in the most lovely cemetary :)
My most sentimental copy is the first Buk I owned,
Now a battered, taped-together awful looking red-wined-stained 19th or 20+ print of
Love Is a Dog.
Thanks for sharing.
Any chance of me squirming into your will?
Man, really though,
What do you plan to do with such pieces?
Have them auctioned off after your death?,
Or let them be buried with you,
And if that's the case,
May I interest you in a beautiful, private plot in the most lovely cemetary :)
My most sentimental copy is the first Buk I owned,
Now a battered, taped-together awful looking red-wined-stained 19th or 20+ print of
Love Is a Dog.
mjp
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It's interesting to see how Bukowski's handwriting style changed. cirerita, you saw some old notebooks, didn't you? I wonder when he switched to block letter printing? It seems unusual to switch so dramatically at such a late age. But according to nymark the provenance of that inscription is rock solid. Interesting.
mjp said:
Ya know, it's funny you should mention that. When I took delivery on this piece, I had a shadow of a doubt. The handwriting isn't anything like I'd ever seen before (and I've seen plenty). I bought it from the archive of someone who published a lot of Bukowski so, as mjp states, I'm confident of its authenticity. It is early, early. That's for sure.
Here's another wild example. This my inscribed copy of RUN WITH THE HUNTED. Check this handwriting against the inscription on FLOWER FIST. Same "Ed...." Although not dated, an early example.
Just as a disclaimer:
It is not my intention to boast or gloat. I am not seeking to stir a lot of envy by putting this stuff out there. I am assuming that this audience finds this stuff to be of interest. It's rare to find anyone who has the proper depth of appreciation for this material. Honestly, there aren't too many who really give a rat's ass about the trajectory of Bukowski's signature style.
It is not my intention to boast or gloat. I am not seeking to stir a lot of envy by putting this stuff out there. I am assuming that this audience finds this stuff to be of interest. It's rare to find anyone who has the proper depth of appreciation for this material. Honestly, there aren't too many who really give a rat's ass about the trajectory of Bukowski's signature style.
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cirerita
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mjp said:
yep, I saw a handful of them but didn't bother to copy that stuff since it was mostly illegible.
This might give you an idea, though:
https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?p=6271#post6271
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