POST OFFICE - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED

Deluxe Issue, one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.30. Octavo (24cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and American flag-patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-115,[5]pp, with a full-page pastel illustration of a colorful creature waving a flag that says "Pussy." Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Housed in a custom clamshell case.Sharp copy of Bukowski's first novel, an autobiographical work based on his years spent as a postal clerk and mail carrier in Los Angeles. He left his job there when publisher John Martin offered him $100 a week for life if he wrote for his fledgling Black Sparrow Press. A cornerstone title for any serious Bukowski collection, and scarce in the deluxe issue. Krumhansl 38c.