Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Bukowski, Charles. Art. Black Sparrow Press. First American edition, Santa Barbara, CA, 1977.
Price: US$66.83 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Issued by the publisher to celebrate the New Year; calligraphy by Roger Marcus. Plain wrappers with label, 10.5 x 7.25cms. Fine in the original envelope.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Bukowski, Charles. Art. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, wrappers issue. String-sewn wrappers, title label mounted to front cover. Issued as a New Year's Greeting for friends of the press. Calligraphy by Roger Marcus. Krumhansl 57b. Fine copy.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. ART.. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa. 1977., 1977.
Price: US$200.49 + shipping
Description: Pocket size, 20pp. A very good paperback copy with envelope. Signed by the author.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. Art.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1977.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 32mo. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Original mailing envelope present (very good plus). Issued as a New Year's Greeting for friends of the press. Calligraphy by Roger Marcus. Krumhansl 57b. Though not called for in this issue, SIGNED by Bukowski.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First collected edition, signed issue. Octavo. Purple cloth with printed paper-cover label. Contains issues of the publisher's pamphlet numbers 49-60, consisting of the following, and Signed by ten of the contributors as issued: Sparrow 49). More Tiger Lillies by Fielding Dawson (signed). Sparrow 50). Variations on a Theme (An Essay on Revision) by Diane Wakoski (signed). Sparrow 51). For The Asking by Cid Corman (signed). Sparrow 52). First There is the Need by Charles Reznikoff. Sparrow 53). My Experience in Parnassus by Carl Rakosi (signed). Sparrow 54). Maybe Tomorrow by Charles Bukowski (signed). Sparrow 55). The Lady Of by Robert Kelly (signed). Sparrow 56). Ascensions by Theodore Enslin (signed). Sparrow 57). Core Meander by Clayton Eshleman (signed). Sparrow 58). Three Early Stories by Paul Goodman. Sparrow 59). Art in the Court of the Blue Fag by Wanda Coleman (signed). Sparrow 60). From "Towards a New American Poetics" by Ekbert Faas (signed). A fine copy in publisher's unprinted lightly rubbed near fine acetate dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski | Roger Marcus. Art. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing: Limited to 50 numbered and signed copies of which this is No. 39. 2 x 2.75in. Each page hand lettered by Roger Marcus and the last signed by Bukowski. Publisher's hand-bound green silk cloth. Vellum title label. Marbled endpapers. FINE in Near Fine original glassine dust jacket. The dust jacket shows two or three millimeter sized nicks, else Fine. As pictured.
Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Love is a Dog from Hell. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover signed and illustrated deluxe issue. Number 50 of a limited 75 copies signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original painting by him bound in. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over red flecked patterned corduroy cloth backstrip, hand bound by Earle Gray. Near Fine with binding slightly askew, slightly bumped corners. Small stain to front pastedown at bottom right corner. In publisher's original acetate jacket, which is rubbed and a little clouded, crimping to corners and spine ends. A lovely copy of this scarce title, with Bukowski's original art work.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Love is a Dog from Hell. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$5800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover, numbered, signed and illustrated issue. Number 66 of a limited 75 copies signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original painting by him bound in. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over red flecked patterned corduroy cloth backstrip, hand bound by Earle Gray. Near Fine with a faint lean to the binding, light tanning to contents with a faint stain to the fore edge and slight darkening to the inner front hinge at the top. In the publisher's original acetate jacket, which is rubbed and a little clouded. A lovely copy of this scarce title, with Bukowski's original art work.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Love is a Dog from Hell. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover, numbered, signed and illustrated issue. Number 3 of 5 presentation copies, marked as such on the rear colophon; signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original painting by him bound in. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over red flecked patterned corduroy cloth backstrip, hand bound by Earle Gray. Fine with a faint spine lean, in Near Fine lightly crimped and lightly rubbed publisher's unprinted acetate wrapper. A lovely copy of this scarce title, with Bukowski's original art work. Krumhansl 60d.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.