Corrections and additions
first as suggested by chronic in another thread, i started this as a thread to track errors people find in krumhansl's bibliography.
to start things off: it looks like, from the responses in the "screams from the balcony" thread, the colophon page in the "numbered, signed, illustrated" edition is incorrectly listed as having a "signed, serigraph print", when in fact, the print is not signed (nor does the colophon actually state that it is).
This would also be a great place to post other items that turned up after the biblio was published, but were in existence before. An example are the three known variants for the broadside "Husk". Only one was known at the time, but later, other variants surfaced. The biblio lists one variant, but I have three here in front of me.
Bill
Jordan/Bill:
These are excellent ideas. The fact that we have this many Bukowski scholars/superfans in one place will make it quite easy to correct the known errors and find any other errors (hopefully not too many...)
1.) Screams From the Balcony question:
The best I can offer on this point is the fact that the silkscreens are printed with the
BUK signature from the original artwork. Somewhere I read (Sounes, Miles, or a letter) that Bukowski at some point decided to quit doing paintings for the books. If memory serves right he enjoyed painting/illustrating when he felt like it not when he "had" to.
Additionally, I would tend to believe that as Hank's health deteriorated JM started using the silkscreened
BUK signature on prints. Prior to this point (1993 or so) I believe that Bukowski did pen sig's on the silkscreens. This means that
Screams would not have a holograph signature on the silkscreen. The same could hold true for
Pulp. I have seen pieces of bukowski artwork with holograph BUK signatures mostly in black. I think that I have also examined a few pieces that were signed in pencil. I've gone through some of my files but cannot locate definite info on pencil sig's.
This does mean that the colophon could be improperly transcribed for
Pulp as well as
Screams. I do not have copies of either of these books right now can anyone verify these points?
Does anyone have a signed/illustrated copies of
The Last Night of the Earth Poems #129 d/e or
Pulp #139 d/e? If so check your illustration page and see if they look like sig's or printed sig's. Also worth checking would be the colophon of
Pulp.
Most of the later parts of the bib were based on formatting of the earlier parts of the bib with adjustments made to format as the books evolved to more expanded states of issue. Mind you also that 3 qualified persons and I proofed the thing many times over before putting it to bed. Well shit the bed we did...
It seems that
Play the Piano is the first book with a silkscreen, anyone have a copy of this pup with a silkscreen (
#68 d or e)? I do have a rejected 8.5 x 11 drawing done for this book. According to JM there were about a dozen drawings done for the book and they picked the one they felt best fit the book. The drawing I have is signed
BUK in black ink but that does not verify the state of the issued book silkscreens.
2.) I will be tracking these items for a possible supplement and as Bill said if you have any other items that are unaccounted for (advance copies, promos, variants, etc.) please let me know. I will log the info as it trickles in.
Best,
AK
