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97 pp. Introduction by John William Corrington. With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. 10x7, hand-bound in stiff wrappers, attached jacket with decorative cork-lined front cover and attached glassine with tissue-guards and pictorial flap over fore-edge around from rear. One of 777 copies on different coloured hand-printed paper. First Edition.

Publisher's copy, with a special 15-line hand-written presentation inscription by Bukowski, in silver ink, in the year of publication, to Jon Webb, the publisher (Loujon Press – Lou and Jon Webb) on the front free endpaper: “To Jon Webb – Who makes Mencken, Burnett and the rest look like rusty shivs in an old alley, and who does it the hard way and asks nothing but to continue to live in order to create the miracle of the love of his work. Charles Bukowski. 5-19-63.” An amazing item, wonderfully produced and considered by most to be Bukowski's most beautifully published book. Copyright page states the book was first printed October 1963, which is after Bukowski’s inscription date. Includes a laid-in July 1963 typed letter signed by Jim Roman (of Roman Books Inc.) to Jon Webb attempting to negotiation a distribution arrangement for It Catches..., with Webb's holographic note "offer refused." Gypsy Lou Series No. 1, Loujon Press Award Book. Dorbin A5; Krumhansl 12.