Estimate: | £250 - £350 |
Hammer price: | £240 |
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). The Movie "Barfly". An Original Screenplay ... for a Film by Barbet Schroeder. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Large 8vo (229 x 149mm). Title printed in red and black, monochrome photographed illustrations by Michael Montfort and Andrew Cooper of scenes from the making of the film (some extremely faint marginal staining to a few leaves, small light stain to the limitation leaf). Original dark blue cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards, the upper cover with a monochrome photographed illustration of Charles Bukowski (as himself), Faye Dunaway (as Wanda Wilcox) and Mickey Rourke (as Hank Chinaski), printed paper spine label, yellow endpapers (some light spotting to front endpapers, without an acetate wrapper, [?]as issued). Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 179 OF 400 "SPECIAL HARDCOVER COPIES" NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Krumhansl 103c.