BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). 2 poems, Los Angeles, Philip Klein for the Black Sparrow Press, April 1967, 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 26 OF 99 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. RARE.

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  2 poems. Los Angeles: Philip Klein for the Black Sparrow Press, April 1967. 8vo (212 x 137mm). Small woodcut printer's device at the end (a single spot on the rear rice-paper leaf). Original tan printed wrappers. Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this rare chapbook. NUMBER 26 OF 99 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Cooney The Black Sparrow Press. A Checklist 9; Krumhansl 25. "Barbara Martin was responsible for the distinctive Black Sparrow artwork. Her use of classic typography, with plain rules, turned out to be the perfect complement to Bukowski's pared-down poems, work like 'a little atomic bomb' which they published in a chapbook called, simply, 2 Poems ..." (Sounes Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life. The Biography [of Charles Bukowski] (London, 2010), p.81). RARE.