Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo yellow stapled chapbook. Includes the poem "One For The Old Boy" by Charles Bukowski. No markings or stains. Unpaginated, roughly 10pp.
Seller: MindFair, Oberlin, OH, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. One For the Old Boy. Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice, clean copy. Covers lay flat. Pages/covers clean, NO foxing or markings. Binding tight.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. One for the Old Boy.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1984., 1984.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Pamphlet. First edition. A single four-page poem issued as a New Year's Greeting from Black Sparrow. As new.
Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: One of an exquisite series of keepsakes, printed for "friends" of the press; this issue contains the Charles Bukowski poem One For The Old Boy; lovely cover design and multi-colored title page, this copy is As New, in stapled wrappers (16mo); scarce in described condition.
Seller: Orpheus Books, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. One for the Old Boy. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1984.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. 12mo. [12]pp. Stapled decorated wrappers. Fine, in original mailing envelope. Printed as a New Year's Greeting for the friends of The Black Sparrow Press.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This little staple bound book is in great condition with only some light smudging, otherwise it looks almost as new.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. One of two hundred copies numbered and signed by the author. Black and white half-tones. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: staple bound. Variant issue with "compliments of Henk van der Does, ." (Black Sparrow's Netherlands Distributor) imprinted on back-cover.
Seller: Amsterdam Book Company, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. One for the Old Boy.. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,, 1984.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: [12 pp]. Fine in sewn printed wrappers. One of 100 copies with a sewn binding. Krumhansl 86a (note).
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles.. ONE FOR THE OLD BOY.. BLACK SPARROW PRESS., SANTA BARBARA, 1984.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A New Year's greeting from the publisher. Fine in stapled wrappers. 1/880 copies.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. One for the Old Boy.. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,, 1984.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: [12 pp]. Fine in stapled printed wrappers. Variant issue, imprint of "Peter S. Brown" (Canada) on rear cover. One of 209 copies. Krumhansl 86a (note).
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. One for the Old Boy.. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,, 1984.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: [12 pp]. Fine in stapled printed wrappers. Variant issue, imprint of "Mo Cohen" (West Germany) on back cover. One of 109 copies thus. Krumhansl 86a (note).
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. One for the Old Boy.. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,, 1984.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: [12 pp]. Fine in stapled printed wrappers. Variant issue, imprint of "Henk Van der Does" (Holland) printed on rear cover. One of 209 copies thus. Krumhansl 86a (note).
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles and R. Crumb.. There's No Business.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow [1984]., 1984.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 10 x 17 inch illustrated broadside, printed in three colors on pink paper. Crease to one lower corner, else fine. Reproduces a Crumb drawing from the book, and provides ordering information. Broadside/flyer No. 12.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Trade Edition. Original printed wrappers, very good (would be fine except that one inner page has separated but is present. SIGNED, in marker, across the front cover.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. New Year's Greetings. Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
Price: US$297.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black Sparrow Press. Eight (8) New Year's Pamphlets, featuring Charles Bukowski. NEAR FINE. 1984 One for the Old Boy; 1985 Alone in a Time of Armies; 1988 The Movie Critics;1991 In the morning and at night and in between;1992 Now;1993 Those Marvelous Lunches; 1994 Between The Earthquake, the Volcano and the Leopard;1997 A New War.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. One for the Old Boy. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1984.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited to 226 copies signed by Bukowski, printed as a New Year's gift for friends of the press. Near Fine, no jacket. Paper on the boards, some light stains throughout, with green, red, and black ink lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 500 trade edition copies, signed by Bukowski on the title page. Fine in Very Good + publisher's acetate jacket. Bound in light grey boards with gray fabric backstrip and maintaining paper title to spine. Insignificant discoloration to top of closed text block and minor smudge on top front board. Interior bight and clean, appearing virtually unread with orange end sheets. Acetate with expected scuffing and large scratch across back panel. An anthology of Bukowski's poetry from the first half of the 1980s, in which the author experiments with structure and length. Offering enthusiasts a familiar mix of the gritty with the quotidian. A great example of a Black Sparrow Press bookâ"run by John Martin the avant-garde press was responsible for supporting and publishing Bukowski's work throughout his prolific career. Krumhansl 89. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles.. There's No Business.. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara., 1984.
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Description: First edition. Quarto. 17 pages. Pictorial boards. A story illustrated by Robert Crumb. A partnership made in Heaven (or probably some other place).One of 416 copies signed by the author and the illustrator.Fine. Not issued in dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Issue, one of 400 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.52. Quarto (27.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and purple polka-dot patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-17,[3]pp; illus. Gentle sunning to board edges (particularly on the front cover), spine label gently sunned; Very Good+ to Near Fine, lacking the original acetate dustjacket. Terrific story about the final act of a washed-up comic, illustrated throughout in Crumb's trademark style. There's No Business was the third of four projects Bukowski collaborated on with Crumb during his lifetime. Krumhansl 87c.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Original illustrated paper-covered boards over cloth spine, with printed label. One of 500 copies of the trade hardback edition. Signed by Charles Bukowski on the title page. There was a signed limited of the hardback edition, but this is the first copy we have seen of the signed trade. Quite scarce.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. There's No Business. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1984.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover, numbered and signed issue. Limited edition, one of 408 copies signed by author and illustrator were published March 28, 1984: 400 copies numbered 1-400 plus 8 copies, 7 marked Presentation Copy" and 1 marked "File Copy" this is copy number 27 signed on the colophon by Charles Bukowski and R. Crumb. Krumhansl 87c. Photos on request.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$875.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Limited to 426 numbered and signed by R. Crumb and Charles Bukowski. The present copy is number 155. 17 pages illustrated by R. Crumb. The story of Manny, who was a comedian working at one of the lounges at the Sunset Hotel in Vegas for four decades but never hit it big. Bukowski states "still he didn't have a pot to puke in". His career is sinking, what can he do? A fine copy bound in 1/4 purple cloth with black dots, over pink pictorial paper covered boards depicting Manny in a blue-green suit with letters and decorations in orange, yellow and purple, orange endpapers, pink paper spine label lettered in black, in original clear acetate jacket.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound, each signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy 'U'. Quarto (27.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 17,[3]pp; illus. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Terrific story about the final act of a washed-up comic, illustrated throughout in Crumb's trademark style. There's No Business was the third of four projects Bukowski collaborated on with Crumb during his lifetime. Krumhansl 87d.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. War All the Time; Poems 1981-1984. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1984.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 126 signed/numbered hardcover copies with original artwork, octavo size, 283 pp. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A cult hero, Bukowski relied on experience, emotion, and imagination in his work, using direct language and violent and sexual imagery" (n.b., from the web site of the Poetry Foundation). As much as he achieved popular acclaim during his lifetime, his reputation and following have only increased after his death. In addition to being an author, Bukowski was also an artist: he painted on 6" by 9" paper "with thick layers of acrylics, oil paint, watercolors, pastels, crayons, pens - whatever was at hand. They were sent to Black Sparrow [whose editor, John Martin, was a friend of Bukowski's] where they were bound into special hardcover first editions of his books" (n.b., from the web site of Bukowski [dot] net). This volume, "War All the Time" is one of Bukowski's "notable later poetry collections" (n.b., quote from the online Encyclopedia Britannica). As a reviewer wrote on the web site "Library Thing", the collection contains "easily Bukowski's greatest horse race poem, 'Horsemeat', [and it] stands out in Bukowski's poetic constellation." This volume is no. 93 of 100 numbered copies with original artwork (there were also twenty-six lettered copies), this a whirling abstract work in bright coloures with thickly-applied strokes, which could be a window pane.or. ___DESCRIPTION: Black cloth decorated shelfback, paper spine label with black lettering, grey paper over boards with multi-coloured lettering and the author's name in blue lettering on the front, a few small coloured decorations on the rear board, orange endpapers, title page in red, blue and orange; octavo size (9.25" by 6.25"), pagination: [1-10] 11-280, [1, colophon, signed by Bukowski in black ink] [1, blank] [1, black and white photograph of Bukowski with bio]. In a dust wrapper of clear acetate from the publisher. ___CONDITION: Fine overall, the boards clean other than a light, stray speck, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a couple of extremely small and light stray marks on the top edge of the text block; overall a fine, bright copy. In an acetate dust wrapper, near fine with light overall marks and a bit of soil. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: Limited (Cloth) Issue, one of seven copies marked "Presentation Copy" and signed by the author and the illustrator on the colophon. Quarto (27.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and purple polka-dot patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 17,[3]pp; illus. A unique copy, where Crumb has signed Bukowski's name on the colophon in his usual fine-point pen, and Bukowski has signed Crumb's in black felt-tipped pen. Gentle sunning and some scattered foxing to upper board edges, title label faded a few shades, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Terrific story about the final act of a washed-up comic, illustrated throughout in Crumb's trademark style. There's No Business was the third of four projects Bukowski collaborated on with Crumb during his lifetime. In a letter to the last owner (which is laid into this copy), Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin relays the following regarding this copy: "I sent the printed colophons first to Crumb in France. About half way through the job Crumb playfully signed that one sheet with Hank's name. I didn't notice that, and sent the sheets to Hank to sign. When Hank came to that sheet, he responded by playfully signing Crumb's name instead of his own. Hank and Crumb genuinely admired one another." A unique "A" item from the press. Krumhansl 87c (see note on p.102).
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.