BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Bensenville, Illinois, Mimeo Press, 1965, 8vo, mimeographed text, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF "NO MORE THAN" 500 COPIES. RARE.

BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Bensenville, Illinois: Mimeo Press [and Douglas Blazek], 1965. 8vo (216 x 143mm). Mimeographed text on yellow, pink and white paper. Original pale pink stapled pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper with an illustration of a detail "from a painting by Anna Purcell of Los Angeles", the lower wrapper with an illustration by Bukowski of an over-sized bird looking at a man in a birdcage and priced at $1. Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. FIRST EDITION of the author's first book of prose. The title page states, "This is a limited edition of no more than 500 copies." "Blazek went on to publish a Bukowski chapbook of a single prose piece, Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, a portmanteau of nine short stories based on his childhood, adolescence and youth. It further promoted Bukowski as the hero of his own work, even though he used the device of a fictional first-person narrator. The name, Henry Chinaski, was noticeably similar to his own" (Sounes, p.74). RARE. Dorbin A8; Krumhansl 17.