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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bukowski, Charles |
| Title: |
At Terror Street and Agony Way |
| Place: |
Los Angeles |
| Publisher: |
Black Sparrow Press |
| Date: |
1968 |
| Item # : |
179945 |
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| Sale Number |
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354 |
| Lot Number |
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13 |
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| Beat Literature Library of Stephen Ronan & Charles Bukowski Collection of Thomas Groff |
| Sale Date |
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04/26/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 4312 |
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| Description: |
| With an original watercolor and black ink painting by Bukowski, signed "Buk" tipped-in on leaf before half-title. 8vo. Publisher's full decorative linen in multiple patterned colors, paper spine label. No. 10 of 75 hardbound copies with the original painting. First Edition. |
| Inscribed presentation copy, signed in the year of publication by the author to James R. Lowell (1952-2004), famed owner / proprietor of The Asphodel Book Shop in Cleveland, Ohio. Lowell’s shop specialized in first editions, small-press publications, etc. that reflected the 1960’s counterculture movement (i.e. The City Lights of the Midwest). Inscription faces Bukowski’s original painting: “5-10-68, For Jim Lowell – The poems keep coming & the books too. I’ve even lost count on how many I have, but each one a kind of magic victory. Sunlight and luck, you know. That’s what we need. Charles Bukowski.” Also, includes the rare original folding prospectus (fine) and Black Sparrow Press Fall 1968 list of publications tri-fold (fine), both laid in. Krumhansl 27c; Dorbin A11; Morrow & Cooney 30.c; Fogel 28. |
| Condition: |
| Fine. |
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