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Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. (One of 500 copies. Krumhansl #17.) Unpaginated. Stapled wraps. Slight sunning to spine, hint of foxing along bottom edge, else Fine. A very clean, bright copy of Bukowski's uncommon first prose work, introducing his alter ego, Henry Chinaski.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of this early collection of Bukowksi prose (one of only 500 printed), an exceptionally fresh copy of this delicate publication. This title marks the debut of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski, the "pulp fiction hero" (Kirsch) who subsequently appeared in five of Bukowski's novels, a number of short stories, and the films Barfly (1987) and Factotum (2005). Adam Kirsch, "The Transgressive Thrills of Charles Bukowski", The New Yorker, 6 March 2005. Octavo. Original pink wrappers stapled at the spine, illustrated with painting by Anna Purcell on front and sketch by Bukowski on rear. Muticoloured leaves within, mimeographed text within. Faint crease to upper right corner, else a fine copy, wrappers free of fading and marks, notably sharp.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. (One of 500 copies. Krumhansl #17.) Unpaginated. Stapled wraps. Fine. An excellent, bright, and sharp copy of Bukowski's uncommon first prose work, introducing his alter ego, Henry Chinaski.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2383.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Paperback pamphlet in good condition. First printing of Bukowski's first book of prose. One of 500 limited copies. Painting on front cover by Anna Purcell, LA. Staple-bound. Original price on rear cover is $1. Covers are lightly marked, tanned and edge-worn. Leading corners of covers and pages are bumped. A few pages are lightly foxed. Lower edges of early pages are bumped. Volume is cocked due to binding error. Binding remains intact. Text is clear throughout. HCW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Charles Bukowski. Confessions of a Man Insane enough to Live With beasts. Open Skull Press, 1965.
Price: US$6718.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mimeo Press, Bensenville, 1965. First Printing of the First and only Edition. A Near Fine copy with a small mark to the front, but otherwise in exceptional condition for the age and paper quality. In original illustrated paper covers. 1/500 only copies. Signed and inscribed with a drawing of a man on a horse to Stanley Kurnik, who was a Los Angeles poet, author, teacher, and composer who ran the Los Angeles writers' workshops and Los Angeles poets' workshops at the First Unitarian Church. Extremely rare as such.The back cover also has a Bukowski drawing, of the man in a cage being watched by the bird. Bukowski's first book of his anti hero Henry Chinaski.
Seller: Morshead Books, Beaumaris, VIC, Australia