It Catches My Heart in Its Hands by Bukowski Charles, First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1963. First Edition. 96 pp. Stiff Boards. NEAR FINE. The binding is tight, with no cocking or leaning and the pages are crisp and clean. The wrap around dust wrapper shows some wear and has minor nicks. This edition was limited to 777 copies printed; SIGNED and dated by the author with a silver pen. An early Bukowski publication. Lawrence Ferlinghetti commented that it was "the most beautiful printing of poetry I have ever seen in this country.".

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [4], 98, [4] pp. Signed, first edition, limited to 777 copies. In original flexible boards with complicated series of jackets and wrap-arounds. Light rubbing to the extremities, contents clean. Generally, a very good+ copy, signed and dated by Bukowski in silver ink, "5/25/1963." This is the first in the Gypsy Lou series #1. True to the Loujon Press, this present work is a complicated and interesting piece of printing and binding. In flexible boards with pictorial jacket around which is an additional outer yellow, pictorial jacket with wrap-aroundâ"patterned Japanese paper separates the inner and outer jackets at the front panel. Mounted to the front of this is printed, orange cork to the front and rear panel and wrap-around flap are printed in black and purple. The preliminaries are of a graduating length, each leaf printed on differently colored paper. This copy comports with what Dorbin identifies as state 1 of the binding (per Krumhansl). Laid in is a bifolium card with printing on the recto of the first leaf reproducing a letter from Bukowski to the publishers related to his excitement of receiving his copy of the book. A truly remarkable book and an early collection of poems by Bukowski. Krumhansl 12.

Softcover. Condition: About Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 2-18-64. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. About Fine, with touches of wear at the extremities and light bumping to corners. An early Bukowski publication, lovingly produced by Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb at their Loujon Press.

Stiff Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Decorated wraps with wraparound dust jacket. Original $5 price on rear panel. Multi layered and coloured interior terraced printing. Edition limited to 777 copies only, signed and dated by the author in silver ink on front ednpaper. In this case 8-3-63. A very sharp copy with no obvious faults except a little edgewear. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. It Catches My Heart in Its Hands was produced by Jon and Louise Webb, founders of LouJon Press. It was printed on an old sheet-fed press and bound in their tiny apartment in New Orleans in 1963. Unlike the Bukowski chapbooks that came before, this was a true book and an incredible book at that. This incredibly beautiful book is every bit a piece of art as the poetry itself. It was hand-printed on thick paper stock of various colors, dispersed with tissues and hand-bound with a cork-lined cover. The detail, the printing methods, the craftsmanship, and the pure insanity it took to create the book was as unparalleled then and as it is today What actually makes this copy rare is the white, heavy stock page on which Bukowski has added a quotation. This page is absent in "regular" copies of the book. Instead, on the "regular" copies, Bukowski's signature and date appears on the first blank page, which is purple. Why Jon Webb stopped sending Bukowski the white pages for signing is unknown. Perhaps he couldn't afford the white paper stock for all copies and started sending him the purple pages to sign. On the white page on this copy, Bukowski has written: WEAK MEN ARGUE IN CROWDS; STRONG ME CRY IN THE DARK. Charles Bukowski 4-7-63 In this copy, Bukowski has also added his signature with another quotation on the purple page where just the signature and date would normally appear. This is dated 12-15-63, so Bukowski wrote this much later than the white page. At some point, the white and purple pages were inserted into the copy together: THE POETS WOULD BE MUCH WORSE THAN THEY ARE ONLY IT DOESN'T PAY ENOUGH. This copy has the orange/red color block over the title and the turquoise lines on the cork cover, but other colors were used on these copies as well. The wrap-around jacket underneath the cork is on yellow paper (some are white). I've heard from more than one person that the ones with the turquoise lines are also rarer, but that's not the case in my experience, so don't buy a copy just for that. This copy also comes with the uncommon letterpress sheet that is a facsimile of the letter he sent to the Webbs upon receiving the first copy of the book on November 23, 1963. The sheet measures 10.5" x 8" and is folded once, with the deckled edge sticking out above the portion of the sheet paper below it. The other three pages are blank. The letterpress sheet is in Fine condition. This copy also comes with a customer Clamshell Box. In addition to publishing two Bukowski books, Jon and Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb published four issues of The Outsider magazine, which became the standard for poetry journals at the time. No other publication attracted nearly the talent that appeared in its pages and the production value of the magazine itself was unrivaled. Bukowski appeared in all four issues, with a large collection of poems in Outsider 1 (1961) and as the named "Outside of the Year" in Outsider 3 (1963), featuring Bukowski on the cover and a large center section. File Box 1 and Case 5. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This edition was limited to 777 copies printed. This copy is SIGNED by Charles Bukowski. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the pages are exceptionally clean. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy in collector's condition SIGNED by the author. We buy Bukowski First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. First Edition. First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 5-25-63. [vi], 99, [2] pp. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. Fine. A truly excellent, crisp copy with hardly any wear. Gift card of Philip Boatwright, editor of Steppenwolf, laid in. An early Bukowski poetry collection, lovingly produced by Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb at their Loujon Press.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited Edition, one of 777 copies. A wonderful copy that is SIGNED and inscribed by Charles Bukowski "The banality of good art is its almost everlastingness which bore schoolchildren drunkards and me. Charles Bukowski dated /2-18-64." The book is bound in the publisher's wrappers and is in excellent condition. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates. A superb copy. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. One of 777 copies. Small quarto (25.5cm); multi-colored letterpressed sheets, gathered, stapled, and bound into thick white card covers, with titling and decorations stamped in dark orange on front cover; simulated parchment wrapper and wrap-around dustjacket, with partial photo of the author printed on right flap, and front cover title and skeleton design letterpress printed in dark red on cork; 102,[2]pp; illus. Inscribed on the front endpaper in silver paint pen to Beat poet Harold Norse: "To Harold Norse / Hope this book catches you somewhere between Athens and 9 Git-Le-Coeur / Charles Bukowski / 8-2-63." Some pinpoint rubbing to points, a bit of trivial wear along the right folds, but very Near Fine, housed in a custom velvet-lined clamshell case. An attractive copy of Bukowski's first full-length collection of poems, and the first book produced by Jon and Louise Webb's New Orleans-based Loujon Press. A distinguished copy, marking Bukowski's lifelong, contentious relationship with author, collaborator, and Beat Generation personality Harold Norse (1916-2009). Their voluminous correspondence dates back to the early 1960s, when Norse, like Bukowski, was a literary maverick and underground legend. It's nearly impossible to pick up a little magazine from the 1960s or 70s and not find Bukowski and Norse's poetry in the same issue: The Outsider, Olé, Amphora, Bastard Angel, Entrails, Laugh Literary, and The Willie, to name just a few. The most significant of their early appearances came in the 1969 publication Penguin Modern Poets 13 a high-profile appearance, which gave Bukowski broader exposure both in Europe and in the U.S. A warm, contemporary association of real merit, in a significant early collection. Dorbin A5; Krumhansl 12.