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Author: Bukowski, Charles
Title: it catches my heart in its hands
Place: [New Orleans[
Publisher: Loujon Press
Date: [1963]
Item # : 104648
Sale Number   228
Lot Number   10
Sale Name    
Modern Literature
Sale Date   09/26/2001
Price realized   $ 316
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Description:
With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. 10x7¼, wrappers, the front wrapper being an onlay of a thin slice of cork. 1 of 777 copies. First Edition.
Inscribed and signed by Bukowski in silver on the front flyleaf, "To Ann Bauman - with a special temper of fondness toward you. - these poems. Charles Bukowski." With the bookplate of Ann Menebroker on the following leaf. This the first in the Gypsy Lou series, printed by hand by Jon and Louise Webb at the Loujon Press.
Condition:
Some staining, but not terribly detracting given the unusual characteristics of the book, else very good.
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