Signed Bukowski (4 results)

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition 1/300. Earth Poets Series 1. Signed by Bukowski on title page. Stapled wraps, photographic plate and illustrated front cover. VERY GOOD mild dampstaining on front cover extending to bottom portion of rear cover and their versos and rear endpaper, minor creasing at upper fore corner of rear cover. Signed By Bukowski on Title Page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a very rare, highly collectible CHAPBOOK for an event (ball) hosted by Lauren Bacall, William Styron and George Plimpton in 1980, "Tenth Birthday Party of Poets & Writers, Inc." In this chapbook, there are 31 famous writers and poets, half of which have signed their name underneath the piece of writing presented in this book. Among the honored poets & writers are 17 signatures including: Margaret Atwood, Louis Auchincloss, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Gail Godwin, John Irving, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Peter Matthiessen, William Meredith, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Grace Paley, Judith Rossner, Louis Simpson, William Jay Smith and John A. Williams on the page of their presented piece of writing. The program in the forefront presents the benefactors, patrons, sponsors and board of directors and in the rear 'Happy Birthday' ads; to list a few: The Swallow Press, Inc., CBS, Inc. The New York Times, The Paris Review, etc. The other 16 authors presented in the program that did not sign are: Paul Bowles, Rita Mae Brown, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Richard Eberhart, John Hawkes, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Carl Rakosi, Samuel Beckett, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, William Stafford, John Updike and Derek Walcott. Roseland, CA, October 22, 1980, 1980 Poet's & Writers, Inc., New York, New York. Helen Handley, General Chair, President, Friends of Poets & Writers, Inc.; Galen Williams, Founder and Executive Director. 4to. Unpaginated ~64pp. RARE. COLLECTIBLE. MORE PICS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST- B.R. Box 162.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio. A lovely and uncommon Limited Edition broadside published to benefit the No Mountains Poetry Project. This is broadside #4 of nine different broadsides produced. Limited to just 199 copies, this is number 58. The broadside features the Bukowski Poem, 'Winter' with silkscreen images of Bukowski, and his signature at the bottom in ink. Off to the right side are two cartoons, a man smoking a cigarette (likely Bukowski) and his dog. This historic piece comes with tan matting, is ready to be framed, and measures 24" X 17" with the matting.

Plastic. Condition: Fine. The signed limited edition of Bukowski at Bellevue: Spring 1970, A One Hour Video Film by Charles Bukowski. (illustrator). Signed Limited Edition. One 60-minute VHS videocassette in the publisher's clasped black plastic cassette box, with printed wraparound title label. From a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by Bukowski, on a label affixed to the interior cover, this being number 10. Issued by Black Sparrow Press in 1988, the recording captures an early black-and-white poetry reading by Bukowski at Bellevue Community College in Washington, reportedly his fourth public reading. The film was recorded by students in the spring of 1970 and later released by Black Sparrow Press after the tapes were rediscovered. A scarce Bukowski publication in video format, documenting the author before the broader public celebrity of his later career. Signed.