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Charles Bukowski. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. Black Sparrow, 1969.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1975 Soft Cover Sixth printing (stated) Interior clean; binding tight. Wraps have some soiling.
Seller: Basket Case Books, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. The days run away like wild horses over the hills.. Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Price: US$36.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Minimal wear and creases. Pages are tanning but clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: with colored title page title lettering, good condition paperback gently read clean pages some smudges and age toning to front cover no creases to spine no owner marks to book, faint adheisive price tag residue,
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, printed with colored ink on title page. Some rubbing on covers, a few scuffs on back cover. Previous owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout. Good binding.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, wrappered issue, one of 1,243 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); beige card wrappers, with titles printed in green blue, orange and red; [12],13-153,[7]pp. This copy bears a full-page inscription on the front endpaper from poet and publisher Ron Padgett, posing as Charles Bukowski, to his close friend, poet Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022): "Happy Birthday Kenward / "and carried them in his hands like apricots" p.17 / love, Charles Bukowski / 1970." The quote is from Bukowski's poem "freedom," in which a drunk man cuts off his own balls with a butcher knife, "carried them in his hands like apricots / and flushed them down the toilet bowl.". Trivial dust-soil to wrappers, gentle sunning to spine, with a faint stain to upper third of same; contents fresh; Very Good+. Bukowski's first full-length book of poetry published by Black Sparrow Press, an important collection, and something of a retrospective of his work to date. Many of these poems dealt with his grief over the death of Jane Cooney Baker, his first wife, to whom he was married briefly in 1952. Krumhansl 32a; Morrow & Cooney 76a.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 184 of 250 signed by the author on the limitation page. A Fine copy in Very Good+ publisher's acetate. Bound in tan boards with green cloth backstrip and maintaining paper title on spine. Interior appearing virtually unread with like exterior. Publisher's acetate with the expected scuffing and two tears near the crown. A book of poems dedicated to Bukowski's first love, Jane, in which we find the author particularly vulnerable. Although their romantic relationship had ended well before Jane died in 1962, Bukowski was with her in her final days and mourned her afterwards. Multiple poems express the author's longing for their lost love. In addition to vivid and emotional descriptions, readers will delight in the literary references peppered throughout the poems. Krumhansl 32. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$978.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to 250 copies signed and numbered by the author. The present copy is number 77. Bound in 1/4 lime green cloth over tan paper covered boards lettered in green and orange with yellow decorative rule, yellow endpapers, paper spine label lettered in dark blue. A fine copy in the publisher's acetate jacket and the publisher's announcement card laid in. [Krumhansl 32b].
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 153 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Bukowski. Krumhansl 32b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills. Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. A magnificent copy! This copy is SIGNED by Charles Bukowski and is number 241 of 250 copies printed. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth and paper boards. The book is in fantastic shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning, and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A stunning copy SIGNED by the author with the original acetate cover. Includes the scarce publisher's prospectus. We buy SIGNED Bukowski First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed Pastel Drawing with Two Additional Signatures Published in 1969 by Black Sparrow Press, The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills was the second Bukowski book published by Black Sparrow Press, the first being At Terror Street and Agony Way in 1968. This is an extraordinary copy of the book. On the dedication page, Bukowski added an exquisite abstract drawing in paster colors of green, pink and purple. He also signed and dated the drawing: BUK -- 70 The size of the drawing is approximately 3.5 x 4 . Although there was an edition of 50 copies signed by Charles Bukowski with an original signed illustration, this is one of 250 copies of the regular signed edition. In addition to the colophon page where it is hand-number 218 out of the 250 copies, Bukowski has added his signature to the title page and dated it 8-23-70. This copy is in Near Fine condition with a bump on the top right cover and a corresponding bump on the rear cover. This copy also comes with the uncommon two-side prospectus which is in Near-Fine + condition with miniscule bumps on two corners. The dedication for jane refers to Jane Cooney, who he met at the Glenwood bar on South Alvarado Street in 1948. The two Barflys lived together on and off until 1955. Sometime after Bukowski s first wife Barbara Frye divorced him in March 1958, Bukowski and Cooney got back together. Sadly, she died from alcohol poisoning in January 1962. Some say, she was the only woman Bukowski truly loved. This copy was more-than-likely a gift to someone special but is not inscribed.
Seller: The Buk Shop, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover, numbered, signed and illustrated edition. Number 21 of a limited 50 copies signed by Charles Bukowski and with an original illustration by him bound in. Handbound by Earle Gray in publisher's original paper-covered boards over striped velveteen spine cloth. Near Fine with trivial wear, in publisher's original acetate jacket, which is a little wavy, chipped at one spine end and with slight wear to the ends of the flap folds. Krunhansl 32c.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.