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Bukowski, Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition in wrappers of this early Black Sparrow collection. A lovely near fine copy in bound red wrappers. Yapped edges of covers ever so slightly worn. One of 747 copies printed. This is one of the copies with the corrected paper label afixed to the front cover.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1968.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/Second State. Softcover. Near fine in red wrappers with the white label affixed to the front panel correcting the misspelling of "Street" in the title. Nearly fine with some bending to the front panel tips and edges. The first book from Bukowski published by Black Sparrow Press. A printing of 800 softcover copies with the majority in the corrected state with the white label. There is also 75 deluxe hard cover signed copies. An important book for the author and publisher. The printed dedication includes "For John Martin who took the chance".
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Bukowski, Charles.. At Terror Street and Agony Way: Poems.. Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good plus copy of this 2nd state of the paperback issue where the misspelling on the front cover has been corrected with a white label. According to Krumhansl there were only 18 copies of the 1st state with the misprint and 747 copies of the 2nd state. There were also 75 hardcover copies. There is a touch of wear to spine. There are no names or markings to text. 89 pages. In this early collection of poems, Bukowski revisits some of his earlier subjects, but instead of his previous surrealistic mode his work explodes with verbal pyrotechnics shedding a fresh light on his own version of the "lower depths." First Printing of the First Paperback Edition.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. BLACK SPARROW PRESS, LOS ANGELES, 1968.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: . A Very Good plus copy of this 2nd state of the paperback issue where the misspelling on the front cover has been corrected with a white label. According to Krumhansl there were only 18 copies of the 1st state with the misprint and 747 copies of the 2nd state. There were also 75 hardcover copies. slightly bumped rear corner, 1/8 tears DATE PUBLISHED: 1968 EDITION: LIMITED ED 89
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/Second Issue. Softcover original. Near fine in red wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page. Touch of wear to the bottom edge and light spotting to the top edge of text block. This is the second issue with the corrected white cover label affixed by the publisher over the misprinted title. First book of poetry published by the author with Black Sparrow Press. 800 copies in the first printing with the majority of the copies in the corrected state with the white label.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Charles Bukowski. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968, 1968.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in red wrappers. Small faint circular cup shadow on the white title panel on the front cover. Small splash of white paint and very short tear to the front edge of the rear cover. Inscribed by Bukowski to the late Omaha Poet Fred Zydek " The Terror of these poems is long ago -- But we hang on, What the Hell am I saying? 1 of 800 copies.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Signed by Charles Bukowski, inscribed, "poems - what the hell," to a former owner in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's second state red wraps with a white title label on the front cover. Very Good, wraps worn (especially at yapped edges), title label rubbed. Dampstain to rear cover, and light bleeding along the bottom edge of several pages with a larger stain to the front free end paper. One of 800 wrapper-bound copies issued alongside 75 hardbound; rare signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. AT TERROR STREET AND AGONY WAY. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$2850.00 + shipping
Description: Wrappered Issue, First State, one of 18 copies with "Street" mis-spelled "Sreet" on the front wrapper. Octavo (21.75cm); red wrappers, with titling and border printed in black; [8],89,[3]pp; illus. Publisher's black and white title label with corrected spelling laid in. Tiny tear to right edge of rear wrapper, else a fresh, Fine copy. Bukowski's first book published by Black Sparrow Press, a collection of early poems describing L.A. and Hollywood as cold and inhospitable. A truly scarce volume in the first state; the second state featured a corrected black and white title label applied to the front wrapper, in a run of 747 copies. Krumhansl 27a; Dorbin A11; Morrow & Cooney 30a.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. At Terror Street and Agony Way.. Los Angles: Black Sparrow,, 1968.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: 89 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. one of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski with an original multi-colored watercolor illustrations SIGNED, "Buk" pasted-onto the third leaf, as issued. The first hardcover book from both the Press and Bukowski. Krumhansl 27c. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$13905.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. #6 of 75 copies, signed and numbered, and with an inscription on flyleaf: "For Lee Rolland (wife of Richard Roland co-owners of Either/Or Books Shop, Hermosa Beach) direct from Terror Street, Charles Bukowski, 5-7-68". This copy is in a mixed state: While it does contain the original tipped in painting by Bukowski, a double tan paper spine label printed lengthwise in red and the colophon has Bukowski's name above the colophon and with the number 6 in red below the colophon, it also contains the Zinc cuts used for the blind stampings of an excerpt of a Bukowski letter ("l.a. Sunday August 20 hello Mike."), excerpted from a letter to Michael Forrest. The excerpts read from tail to head, on the verso of the third leaf, recto of the title page and the recto of the last leaf. Zinc cuts were also used for blind stampings of illustrations by Bukowski located on the sixth leaf (verso of the half-title) and the leaves between pp. 42-43 and pp. 66-67 and the last page. Verso of the title page printed is a 13 line introduction by the author. Hardbound in multicolored blue, red, violet, green and yellow cloth. What makes this one of the most important of Bukowski's books is found in his printed letters (Screams from the Balcony, pp. 327-330), Bukowski to John Martin (publisher of Black Sparrow), May 20, 1968 "Your beautiful check and the 20 copies of Terror Street.check [$460 from his letter on June 4, 1968 to Jon and Louise Webb] was more than I expected. In a previous letter to Carl Weisner (early May 1968) he writes: "I have been doing paintings in the kitchen.this bird, Martin, wants 75 small paintings which will be mounted in the back of the special hardcover copies of Terror Street. I've made about 60 paintings up to now and he wants 20 more, and he says he can pick them up Monday. I've done 6, these editors just don't realize that paintings can't just be made up.each painting must come from the balls like a f.k, few men can f.k six times a night, 20 [i.e. paintings] is just impossible. To make it an especially nice copy, the Either/Or Book Store was frequented by Bukowski, Pynchon, and a host of people who loved small press poetry and counterculture books. A fine and desirable association copy. (Krumhandsl, #27).
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: Wrappered Issue, Second State, one of 747 copies with publisher's label with corrected title mounted to front wrapper. Octavo (21.75cm); red wrappers, with titling and border printed in black; [8],89,[3]pp; illus. The dedication copy, inscribed in green water-color to Los Angeles poet John Thomas on the preliminary leaf: "For John Thomas / who has trained most of the tigers in his soul and has made them into useful tigers, unlike mine. This is sensible. I am in the cage with mine and they are winning. The only nobility in any man's death is what the living lend it. And most of the living are hardly very noble. Charles Bukowski / June 1st, 1968 / P.S. - Hello, Rosie!" Modest wear to wrappers, light rubbing and dust-soil to title label, with some short tears and attendant creases to yapped edges, and a handful of small stains to margins; Very Good and sound. Offered together with a Fine copy of the publisher's prospectus, both housed together in a custom clamshell case. Bukowski's first book published by Black Sparrow Press, a collection of early poems describing L.A. and Hollywood as cold and inhospitable, containing a marvelous and lengthy inscription, composed two weeks after publication, to poet John Thomas Idlet (1930-2002). Bukowski and Thomas maintained a close friendship between 1965-1971; Thomas was one of the few poets whose company Bukowski could stand, and Bukowski thought enough of his work to call him "the best unread poet in America." During the years of their friendship, Thomas recorded many of his conversations with Bukowski during their visits; after Bukowski's death in 1994, Thomas and his then-wife Philomene Long published the recordings under the title Bukowski in the Bathtub: Recollections of Charles Bukowski. A superb contemporary association copy of an early, significant collection. Krumhansl 27b; Dorbin A11.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.