Estimate: | £250 - £350 |
Hammer price: | £200 |
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94) - Sanford DORBIN (1932-2014). A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Large 8vo (237 x 153mm). Facsimile of the first separate Charles Bukowski publication ("His Wife, the Painter" - Hearse Broadside No. 1), printed in red, tipped-in as a frontispiece, the title printed in red and yellow with an original pen-and-ink portrait of the author [?by the author] (two very faint spots and some very faint staining to the title). Original mustard hessian-backed paper boards by Earle Gray, yellow endpapers, acetate wrapper (small section of lower acetate wrapper torn away). Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff; G. Eisenberg (ex-libris label loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 400 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 28 OF 350 "HARDCOVER" COPIES SIGNED BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI AND SANFORD DORBIN. RARE.