The Buk Shop (1 Viewer)

After months of cataloging, The Buk Shop officially opens Friday April 5. 2024.

As the name implies, The Buk Shop is solely focused on Charles Bukowski, featuring signed books, manuscripts, broadsides, chapbooks, drawings and paintings, films, readings, and magazines.

I’m not exaggerating in any way when I say that I could not have written the descriptions nearly as well if it were not for the database. The forum too, but especially the database. So, a huge thanks to Hannah for building and maintaining it all these years.

As you can see, David Barker allowed me to use his linoleum woodcut for the letterpress announcement, so a big thank you to him. I also had some lapel pins made up, so send me a message with your address if you’d like one.

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I put a lot of work into the descriptions, so hopefully folks here will find them useful. There are also multiple photos of each item. Longtime members can use them as they see fit, but please don’t abuse the photographs on social media – I’m selling them, but someone else owns the rights.

Once I have a minute to take a breath, I’ll add a news section (ex. Abel’s new book) and a blog with interviews with various people on collecting Bukowski (David Barker will be first). Although the shop is focused solely on Bukowski, I would also like to support the small press in some way. Nothing I do will replicate anything the forum is already doing.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the forum and database over the years!

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Wow, the shop is amazing! A great many cool items, many I've not seen before. I'm honored you chose my block print as the illustration on your flyer -- thanks again for that. This catalog will take some exploring and digesting, but my first impression is that it's a hell of an offering. Hope it's a success for you, and have fun doing it.
 
I've been checking out the catalog and am very impressed. You've got a lot of rare, high-quality items, all very well described. It would be a shame to lose all that information once the items get sold. Have you considered keeping the listings but marking them as "SOLD" and maybe moving them to a different page once they're no longer available? I know many auction houses do that, and it's useful information for anyone doing research on rare books such as these. Just my two cents.
 
I put up some new items in the shop if anyone wants to take a look.

I've said this before: I'm not using the forum to explicitly sell stuff. These items are usually things I might have previously added to different places in the forum and still will, but I don't have as much time now. Anyone can take these images and descriptions and post them as they see fit -- here or elsewhere.

One other thing: If anyone spots anything incorrect in my listings, feel free to let me know and I'll correct. This forum represents a huge knowledge base that continues to make new discoveries all the time. I am by no means all-knowing... The most exciting thing for me is someone sharing something I didn't know.

Best,
Mike

 
I've added a News section to the shop. The first newsletter is about Notes of a Dirty Old Man.


Subscribe if you want.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the shop.

Best,
Mike
 
Short piece on Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb collaborations
 
Short piece on Charles Bukowski and the Art of Spain Rodriguez

 
I haven't seen those illustrations from "Das liebesleben der hyane" before. Thanks.

P.S. I guess S. Clay Wilson is next.
 
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“I finally goes out to mailbox and there is PENGUIN POETS 13, and you are right, it is a pussy, what a silly cover, we have been done in old man, they gave us a pussy with a monthly yet and no kotex, god. doesn’t STANGOS have any control over that sort of thing?” Bukowski wrote Norse. “now, if they had only put a REAL pussy on the thing I would have no objections, especially if it were an old diseased pussy with all the horrors and malignancies attached, say, esp. pissing during the Catholic mass.”
Priceless.

Also:
“shit, you’ll sell my letters for thousands of dollars,” Bukowski wrote. “and what’ll I get for yours? An old used fan or something. That’s it, an old used fan from a 90 year old admirer in Weaton, Ill. And the fucking thing will break down in the first 100 degree heat. Which is what we’re having now.”
and
“got a royalty check from Penguin for $43!,” Bukowski wrote. “We’re big time now, baby! I sit by phone waiting for LIFE mag to call… so you have a big heart, you tell me. well, see if you can touch it with your dick, my boy.”
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