YOU KISSED LILLY - HEAVILY-CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT [SIGNED] TOGETHER WITH A COPY OF THE DELUXE ISSUE

Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Complete typescript for this humorous, violent short story of middle-aged marital discord, set in a small town in Illinois. The preliminary leaf and running head notably print Bukowski's original title for this story - The Split - which he has crossed out on p.1 and re-titled You Kissed Lilly. This draft, written five months before the book by Black Sparrow Press was published, shows significant interaction with the text. Large portions were omitted, significant sections re-written, and there are portions of dialogue Bukowski made no changes to that were ultimately (and noticeably) changed in the published version. In addition to the 1978 publication, it appears as the fifth story in his 1983 collection Hot Water Music, and was published again in the September, 1984 issue of High Times. Complete typescripts for any of Bukowski's books rarely appear in the marketplace. Most are held in institutions, and while we know the whereabouts of a few in private hands, in 20 years of chasing down Bukowski material, we've had a single opportunity to handle one. Krumhansl 61b. Original draft typescript on nine leaves of white bond, measuring 8.5" x 11", numbered at upper right corners, with Bukowski's Carlton Way address appearing at upper left corner of preliminary leaf. Numerous holograph corrections and elisions appear throughout the text, on eight of the nine leaves, with the most significant omissions and re-writes appearing beginning on p.5. Signed by Bukowski on the terminal leaf, dated 9-25-77. Mild handling, occasional subtle toning, horizontal fold smoothed-out at center, with some scattered soil to lower half of p.1; a well-preserved draft, accompanied by an original unused sample cover design for the Black Sparrow Press edition, signed by Bukowski, with additional decorations by him in red and green marker. Housed in a custom half-morocco clamshell case.

Together with a copy of the Deluxe Issue, one of 75 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, who has additionally hand-colored the front cover (this is copy no.11). Small octavo (20.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and purple leaf-patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; original printed paper dustjacket; [28]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine dustjacket.