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Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed limited edition, number 195 of 210 copies signed by Bukowski on the limitation page. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. White jacket maintaining bright purple and red text, toning to spine. Bound in yellow paper boards with purple backstrip, paper label to spine, and orange fly leaves. This shockingly violent short story focuses on a middle aged couple, married for decades, and the aftermath of the husband's affair. In typical Bukowski style, the author exaggerates the narrative action for humorous effect: furious at the husband's betrayal five years prior the wife shoots her husband multiple times; when they police arrive they joke about domestic strife and all the while the other woman fantasizes about someone else. Krumhansl 61. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. You kissed Lilly. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barnara, 1978.
Price: US$566.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to 200 copies. Illustrated. The present copy is number 100 signed by the author. Bound in 1/4 purple fine ribbed corduroy cloth over yellow paper covered boards lettered in outline in red and purple, central line drawing executed by Bukowski within brown frame, red endpapers, deckled fore-edges, yellow paper spine label lettered in black, in white dust jacket printed in outline purple and red, separated with a brown rule. A fine copy. [Krumhansl 61a].
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. You kissed Lilly. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1978.
Price: US$1261.75 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to only 75 copies. The present copy is number 41 signed by the author and with a hand-colored image by Bukowski of Theodore's kiss of Lilly that haunted Margie. Illustrated by the author. Hand bound in 1/4 purple and red floral designed cloth over yellow paper covered boards, lettered in outline in red and purple, central line drawing executed by Bukowski within a brown frame, and with an original ink drawing on upper board by Bukowski signed, red endpapers, deckled fore-edges, yellow paper spine label lettered in black, in yellow dust jacket lettered in an outline of purple and red with brown separating rule. A fine copy. [Krumhansl 61b].
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. You Kissed Lilly. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1978.
Price: US$1272.05 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to only 75 copies. The present copy is number 42 signed by the author and with a hand-colored cover illustration by Bukowski in red and black ink depicting Lilly at home laying down with her breast exposed while presumably touching herself (unaware of what had taken place between Theodore and Margie), signed again by the author. Illustrated by the author. Hand bound in 1/4 purple and red floral designed cloth over yellow paper covered boards, lettered in outline in red and purple, central line drawing within brown frame, red endpapers, deckled fore-edges, yellow paper spine label lettered in black, in yellow dust jacket lettered in outline of purple and red with brown separating rule. A fine copy. [Krumhansl 61b].
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Set of twelve printing plates attached to wood blocks used for The Black Sparrow Press publication, You Kissed Lilly by Charles Bukowski. Various sizes, most approximately 8x11 cm (3.25" x 4.25"). Ten of the plates are reproductions of illustrations by Bukowski, with the corresponding page numbers on which they appear written on the back of the blocks in marker. Two additional blocks are the author name and the book title, both used for the cover. A unique set of Bukowski / Black Sparrow Press ephemera.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.