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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bukowski, Charles |
| Title: |
Crucifix in a Deathhand - Publisher's personal copy |
| Place: |
[New Orleans] / New York |
| Publisher: |
A Loujon Press Award Book / Lyle Stuart Inc. |
| Date: |
[1965] |
| Item # : |
168616 |
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| Sale Number |
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327 |
| Lot Number |
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21 |
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| The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature |
| Sale Date |
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03/09/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 4312 |
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| Description: |
| 101 pp. With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. Illustrations by Noel Rockmore. 12¼x8¼, original pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, pages and covers printed on heavy stock paper, original printed orange paper band, laid in. One of 3100 copies hand printed on hand-made paper, designed, printed and bound by Louise and Jon Webb. First Edition. |
| Publisher's copy, with an amazing and personal 23-line presentation inscription (filling the entire sheet and is inside a squiggly line all the way around and connected to a beer bottle) signed by Charles Bukowski, all in silver-metallic ink on blue-colored leaf facing colophon: “For Jon and Louise Webb - you know how I feel on the book, I'm sure, and I remember the days and nights down there too - Gypsy's cooking, the beer, the walks with the dogs, the race riots on T.V., the crazy professors arguing about degrees, the beautiful women on sidewalks who stared right at me, the 2 bad nights, the bars, the corners; and the talk, the final easiness, the bulletholes; the old press, the paper stacked high, the signings, Minnie’s place, the racetrack, the book the book, the book!!! Love, Buk – Charles Bukowski. 5-3-65.” Gypsy Lou series #2. Dorbin A6; Krumhansl 15. |
| Condition: |
| Minor edge wear and rubbing to exterior, fore-edge corners bumped; paper band flattened and laid in; else near fine. |
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