Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters from 1960-1970 Tapa dura - 1993

Black Sparrow Pr. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy #485 of 600 numbered copies signed by author. A fine copy in original yellow cloth over boards, paper spine label; original mylar jacket.

Santa Rosa:: Black Sparrow,, 1993.. Limited Edition. A Fine copy in a mylar dj. 1/600 copies Signed by Bukowski & numbered. "I wrote letters because they just came out. They were a need. A scream. A laugh. Something...I never thought of an audience outside of the letters. If I had, they would have been shitty letters...Writing letters, like writing poems, stories, novels, helps to keep me from going crazy or from quitting. I write letters at night when I am drinking, just as I write my other stuff. "

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Book. Very Good+ condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 372 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal rubbing to the extremities. Protected in a clear acetate jacket which is slightly rubbed. Limited edition: number 175 of 300 copies signed by the author on a special limitation page, and with a silk screen print by the author. Title page printed in red and black. The text is clean and unmarked. Minor amount of smudging to the closed page edges. First edition..

Santa Rosa :: Black Sparrow,, 1993.. Limited Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine mylar dust jacket. 1/326 copies Signed by Bukowski with a Bukowski seriagraph print. This collection of letters chronicles Bukowski's life from his first days as a poet having meager success through his resignation from his postal job to pursue writing as his sole source of income. In between, the letters reveal in raw and uncensored fashion how a hard-drinking, hard-living man followed his own vision of poetic truth and artistic integrity. Earlier letters are written to the few editors, poets and admirers who had become aware of Bukowski's wild poetry. In them, we see the 40-year-old author struggling to make ends meet through an alcoholic stupor of which he is neither ashamed nor apologetic. We read of his thrill as his first book appears-- directly in the aftermath of the assassination of JFK. Even as his fame grows and his friends are convinced that he has made it, Bukowski remains in ill health and financial insecurity.… Leer más

Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Very Good with pictorial cover, Limited numbered edition #557 of 600 SIGNED by Bukowski . Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Cover.