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Los Angeles: Open City, Publisher, 1967. Tabloid. Good. Tabloid newspaper format. 16 pp. Second issue of this newspaper devoted to the counterculture and radical movements locally, nationally and internationally. This issue with a front page article on racism in high school, focusing on an incident involving a Black student and teachers in Long Beach; an interview with Phil Spector, the once heralded record producer now a convicted murderer; "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," by Charles Bukowski, etc. GOOD condition. Horizontal fold crease present. Minor to moderate uneven browning to the paper. Minor chipping and tearing along the edges.

Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Good. Good. Tabloid with browned paper, stained and with multiple tears at the spine fold, a few small chips and tears at the fore-edge. The first issue of the Los Angeles iteration of the tabloid Bryan previously printed in San Francisco under the title Open City Press. This issue features contributions from Clayton Eshleman, Allen Ginsberg, William and Barbara Margolis, as well as Charles Bukowski's review of A.E. Hotchner's biography of Ernest Hemingway.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 226 copies signed by Bukowski, printed as a New Year's gift for friends of the press. Near Fine, no jacket. Paper on the boards, some light stains throughout, with green, red, and black ink lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Limited, Signed. Softcover. Near Fine. Note: NOT NUMBERED Published 26 December 1969, published as a [1970] Near Years to the Friends of the Black Sparrow Press in an edition of 400 copies, 100 of which were signed by author and numbered. NOTE: This copy SIGNED by Bukowski on title page, but NOT numbered. Book hand-sewn with blue thread in green paper wrappers, measuring 5 1/4 in. x 4 1/2 in, (14.3 x 11.4 cm.) Included is white envelope in which book was originally issued, measuring 5 in. x 5 15/16 in (12.7 x 15.1 cm). Probably, one of the 350 ORIGINALLY unsigned copies, but this copy apparently signed afterwards.

Berkeley: Print Mint. 1973. This issue of Arcade includes Bukowski's "Bop Bop Against That Curtain," illustrated by R. Crumb. Signed by Bukowski on the front cover. Other contributors to this issue include Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Spain [Rodriguez], and Aline Kominsky [Crumb], among others. There is also a 5-page comic solely authored and illustrated by Crumb. A Who's Who of underground comix, with a rare Bukowski signature. Fine. Softcover. Fine.

New York/New Orleans: Lyle Stuart/Loujon Press, 1965. First Edition. Very Good. Illustrated card covers with publisher's original wrap around band. Signed in pink by Bukowski with a drawing of a flower, dated 3-16-65. Light wear to the corners, otherwise about near fine. Edition of 3100. Etchings by Noel Rockmore. Nice copy.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow. 2001. Two comb-bound advance copies: one shot from typescript and printed on rectos only, 298 pp.; the second copy is typeset and printed on both sides of the page, 355 pp. Laid into the first copy is an earlier version of one included poem: "oh to be young in 1942!," here titled just "oh, to be young!" The poem is two pages, the first being ribbon copy. Photocopied emendations to the table of contents in the first copy, removing the titles of poems not included; penciled notes to the table of contents in the second copy. The first one has the date "2/3" and the publisher's initials, "JM," on the cover; the second one is also initialed and is dated "4/11." Each is fine with an acetate cover. From the collection of John Martin, publisher of Black Sparrow Press, which printed most of Bukowski's work for the last nearly 30 years of his life, and which was in turn supported by the success Bukowski had with his poetry and his fiction, which rewrote the boundaries of what was acceptable as art. No Binding. Fine.

Inscribed by Levy "for/ Kay Wood/ Jan 20, 1968/ Sensa/ d.a. levy/'Swamp ERIE'" An unopened copy safe-guarded by Ms. Wood since the sixties. One of 1000 copies. Stiff wrap original with black tape and staple binding. Includes illustrations, b&w photographs, color silkscreens, and newspaper clippings in addition to selected works. A fine copy. Additional images and further information provided upon request.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. Limited Edition. Cloth & Boards. VG+. 8vo. Quarter blue speckled cloth over decorated cream boards. wrapped in publisher's mylar cover. Edition limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. This number 82. Also included is full page original painting by the author bound in. Definitely an abstract! One minor spot to bottom edge o/w near fine.

[Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. Near fine.. First edition, association copy, with an extraordinary inscription and drawing from Bukowski at a pivotal moment in his career to Hal Norse, perennial literary scenester and author of the classic cut-up novel BEAT HOTEL. Norse was a frequent Bukowski correspondent beginning in the mid 1960s, and it was Norse who recommended Bukowski to Penguin Press for their Modern Poets series - then Bukowski's highest-profile appearance to date (they appeared together in the thirteenth installment). But the two didn't meet in person until January of 1969, a little less than a year before this inscription. Norse recalls the experience in his book MEMOIRS OF A BASTARD ANGEL: "I knew that a wild Falstaffian ruffian had come to shake things up with more fiction than fact, more fantasy than truth [...] Bukowski was misshapen [...] He looked [...] during down and out" (p. 420). Indeed, the poet was down and out, frustrated at his job for the post office and desperate to find a way to support himself from his writing alone. He would find that opportunity later the same year when Black Sparrow publisher John Martin famously offered Bukowski a guaranteed $100 a month for life if he wrote for the press full time. According to Martin, their agreement went into effect January 2nd, 1970 - just six days after this inscription and only a few weeks before Bukowski completed his first novel, POST OFFICE. (IF WE TAKE was the first of many Black Sparrow greetings Bukowski would do for Black Sparrow Press.) Norse and Bukowski remained life-long - if contentious - friends and correspondents (a collection of their letters has been slated, but delayed, for publication since 2002). Quite simply, one of the closest and warmest Bukowski associations we've seen. 5.5'' x 4.5''. Original string-tied stiff printed wrappers. One of 350 copies. [8] pages. Inscribed by Bukowski to Harold Norse: "12 -27 - 69 / For Hal Norse - / We've both been / through the fire, / dear friend, and / there's more to come - / more fire more o / so much more fire, / and we can only / wonder if we will / kill ourselves first, / or they. No matter - / they will never know. / yrs, / Charles Bukowski." Bukowski has also added to inside of front cover an illustration of a man smoking, signed "Buk." Touches of rubbing, soil. Well preserved.