Estimate: | £800 - £1,200 |
Hammer price: | £700 |
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Factotum. A Novel. Santa Barbara & Ann Arbor: Black Sparrow Press, December 1975. Large 8vo (228 x 150mm). Title printed in red, green and black, monochrome photographed portrait of the author by Richard Robinson at the end. Original orange cloth-backed decorated olive paper boards, printed paper spine label, orange endpapers, acetate wrapper. Please note that some of the illustrations show reflections from the acetate wrapper. Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the author's second novel. NUMBER 56 OF 250 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. RARE. Krumhansl 51c.