Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Illustrated in black and white. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly toned and soiled, very good. Includes "Life and Death in the Charity Ward" by Charles Bukowski, and an interview with Bukowski (by Robert Wennersten). Also prints an article about Jack Kerouac by Herbert Lomas, an article about Andre Malraux (by Jefferey Myers), and contributions by Paul Theroux, William Sansom, Stephen Spender, and more.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Periodical Appearance of Paul Theroux's short story "Reggie Woo"--Signed by Theroux. Other contributors: Charles Bukowski short story "Life and Death in the Charity Ward"; an Interview with Charles Bukowski titled "Paying for Horses"; Stephen Spender's essay on Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago; and and an essay on Jack Kerouac titled "Benzedrine to Booze: Kerouac and Black Mountain." Very Good--some loose pages but book intact. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. Life and Death in the Charity Ward (1st Edition). London Magazine Editions, 1974.
Price: US$141.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictoral boards. Small inscription to the front end page. There is a bit of wear to the first page (2 small holes). Firm binding. Jacket is not price clipped. 1st UK edition. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.
Seller: Bramble Books, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Bukowski, Charles. Life and Death in the Charity Ward. London Magazine Editions, London, 1974.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First published by City Lights under the title "Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness" as a paperback original. "Life and Death in the Charity Ward" is the first hardcover edition.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. Life and Death in the Charity Ward. London Magazine Editions, London, 1974.
Price: US$178.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st UK Edition, 1st printing, appears little read, not price clipped (£2.75), no owner's name or other inscription, some sunning at D/j spine but D/j has no tears, nicks, creases or marks and is protected by a clear removable sleeve.
Seller: MHO - Collectors' Books, Fittleworth, Pulborough, United Kingdom
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Life and Death in the Charity Ward. London Magazine Editions, (London), 1974.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English edition. Advance Reading copy in the form of folded and gathered, unsewn sheets laid into dust jacket, as issued. Fine in very good trade issue) dust jacket with a small surface tear and a tiny paint spot on the spine. Uncommon in this advance state of the text. Published as *Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness* in America in 1972.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles.. Life & Death in the Charity Ward: Stories.. London Magazine, 1974.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in a Near Fine bright dust jacket with a touch of fading to the spine. These twenty-nine short stories were originally published in paperback by City Lights Books as "Erections, Ejaculations." and appear here in the only hardcover edition of this collection.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. Life & Death in the Charity Ward.. London: London Magazine Editions,, 1974.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 205 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Bukowski on the the title page. Thirty-one short stories.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. Life & Death in the Charity Ward. London Magazine Editions, London, 1974.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI along the half-title. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of the 1974 1st UK (and 1st hardback) edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Fine dustjacket.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); glossy photo-illustrated boards; dustjacket; [xii],205,[7]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Faint diagonal crease along upper right corner of front board, spine ends gently nudged, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 2.75), with corresponding wrinkle at upper right corner of front panel and subtle wear to crown; Near Fine. First hardcover edition of Bukowski's 1973 collection Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, published by City Lights Books. Uncommon signed.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.