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Price: US$299.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 138pp. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers, with a black and white photograph of Charles Bukowski on the front and a street scene of New Orleans on the back. Pink tissue end papers, with "Printed by Hand in New Orleans, USA" stamped in red on the front tissue. Bronze to text block edges. Heavily illustrated throughout in black and white. Minor shelf wear, with some creasing along the bottom edge and to the corners, as well as a tiny closed tear to the head of the spine. Internally clean and an overall tight and bright copy. very good The Outsider was an avant-garde literary magazine published by Loujon Press, which was run by Jon Edgar Webb and his wife, Louise "Gypsy Lou" Webb. The Webbs produced the Outsider from their small apartment in the French Quarter in the early 1960's. By day Gypsy Lou sold paintings on a street corner, and by night she set the type that introduced the world to the beat poet Charles Bukowski whose work Jon Webb also chose for their first two Loujon Press books- It Catches My Heart in It's Hands and Crucifix in a Deathhand. Each page of every copy of this issue of the Outsider was printed by hand individually on a 19th century clamshell press. This issue contains work by Miriam Patchen, Kenneth Patchen, Kay Johnson, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, William Burroughs, Irving Layton, Diane Wakowski, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller and many more.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by the author in silver ink on the front endpaper. weight: 0.9 lb. Good plus in the stiff dust jacket, some smoke damage to the edges and margins. Introduction by John William Corrington. Series: Gypsy Lou Series no. 1. 26x18.5 cm. 98 pp. ` Leaves of various colors bound in white printed stiff wraps.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. It Catches My Heart In Its Hands. Loujon Press, 1963.
Price: US$1360.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1963. First Edition. 96 pp. Stiff Boards. NEAR FINE. The binding is tight, with no cocking or leaning and the pages are crisp and clean. The wrap around dust wrapper shows some wear and has minor nicks. This edition was limited to 777 copies printed; SIGNED and dated by the author with a silver pen. An early Bukowski publication. Lawrence Ferlinghetti commented that it was "the most beautiful printing of poetry I have ever seen in this country."
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 777 copies, signed and dated by Bukowski in silver ink. Softcover, bound in stiff wrappers with over wrap. The corners lightly rubbed, else fine.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1925.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. [4], 98, [4] pp. Signed, first edition, limited to 777 copies. In original flexible boards with complicated series of jackets and wrap-arounds. Light rubbing to the extremities, contents clean. Generally, a very good+ copy, signed and dated by Bukowski in silver ink, "5/25/1963." This is the first in the Gypsy Lou series #1. True to the Loujon Press, this present work is a complicated and interesting piece of printing and binding. In flexible boards with pictorial jacket around which is an additional outer yellow, pictorial jacket with wrap-aroundâ"patterned Japanese paper separates the inner and outer jackets at the front panel. Mounted to the front of this is printed, orange cork to the front and rear panel and wrap-around flap are printed in black and purple. The preliminaries are of a graduating length, each leaf printed on differently colored paper. This copy comports with what Dorbin identifies as state 1 of the binding (per Krumhansl). Laid in is a bifolium card with printing on the recto of the first leaf reproducing a letter from Bukowski to the publishers related to his excitement of receiving his copy of the book. A truly remarkable book and an early collection of poems by Bukowski. Krumhansl 12.
Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. It Catches My Heart in its Hands. Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1963.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 2-18-64. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. About Fine, with touches of wear at the extremities and light bumping to corners. An early Bukowski publication, lovingly produced by Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb at their Loujon Press.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Decorated wraps with wraparound dust jacket. Original $5 price on rear panel. Multi layered and coloured interior terraced printing. Edition limited to 777 copies only, signed and dated by the author in silver ink on front ednpaper. In this case 8-3-63. A very sharp copy with no obvious faults except a little edgewear. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Bukowski, Charles. It Catches My Heart In Its Hands. Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1963.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This copy, one of 777 printed and signed, was not only signed by Mr.Bukowski. but has a drawing signed in the forward, along with an inscription/momento written in the back of the book, and signed. I have an old friend of A/A, he was very well read/traveled.He'd actually acquired a couple of Bukowski's works and not to my surprise, each were signed; one specifically to Bruce. My friend had been badly burned during Vietnam, by a hydraulic fluid drum that exploded on the ship he was stationed onboard. Bruce, he was a character, an angry man to say the least so to have been given this after his passing, well it was touching to say the least! He (Bruce) like Bukowski was an alcoholic in every sense of the word, no doubt, so him having this one made perfect sense. And him, knowing my love for poetry, it wasn t much surprise it was this actual book he left for me. Authenticated by, David Meeker, Sacramento Ca. Andrea Boltresz, Australia. If you are interested in my beautiful book, I will certainly entertain questions, and offers, but absolutely nothing lower than the worth. This copy, one of 777 now for ($2,250. U.S.) printed and signed, was not only signed by Mr.Bukowski. but has a drawing signed in the forward, along with an inscription/momento written in the back of the book, and signed. I have an old friend of A/A, he was very well read/traveled.He'd actually acquired a couple of Bukowski's works and not to my surprise, each were signed; one specifically to Bruce. My friend had been badly burned during Vietnam, by a hydraulic fluid drum that exploded on the ship he was stationed onboard. Bruce, he was a character, an angry man to say the least so to have been given this after his passing, well it was touching to say the least! He (Bruce) like Bukowski was an alcoholic in every sense of the word, no doubt, so him having this one made perfect sense. And him, knowing my love for poetry, it wasn t much surprise it was this actual book he left for me. Authenticated by, David Meeker, Sacramento Ca. Andrea Boltresz, Australia. If you are interested in my beautiful book, I will certainly entertain questions, and offers, but absolutely nothing lower than the worth. This copy, one of 777 now for ($2,250. U.S.) printed and signed, was not only signed by Mr.Bukowski. but has a drawing signed in the forward, along with an inscription/momento written in the back of the book, and signed. I have an old friend of A/A, he was very well read/traveled.He'd actually acquired a couple of Bukowski's works and not to my surprise, each were signed; one specifically to Bruce. My friend had been badly burned during Vietnam, by a hydraulic fluid drum that exploded on the ship he was stationed onboard. Bruce, he was a character, an angry man to say the least so to have been given this after his passing, well it was touching to say the least! He (Bruce) like Bukowski was an alcoholic in every sense of the word, no doubt, so him having this one made perfect sense. And him, knowing my love for poetry, it wasn t much surprise it was this actual book he left for me. Authenticated by, David Meeker, Sacramento Ca. Andrea Boltresz, Australia. If you are interested in my beautiful book, I will certainly entertain questions, and offers, but absolutely nothing lower than the worth.
Seller: Not Your Typical Biz, Norman, OK, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This edition was limited to 777 copies printed. This copy is SIGNED by Charles Bukowski. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the pages are exceptionally clean. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy in collector's condition SIGNED by the author. We buy Bukowski First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. It Catches My Heart in its Hands. Loujon Press, New Orleans, 1963.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 5-25-63. [vi], 99, [2] pp. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. Fine. A truly excellent, crisp copy with hardly any wear. Gift card of Philip Boatwright, editor of Steppenwolf, laid in. An early Bukowski poetry collection, lovingly produced by Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb at their Loujon Press.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition, one of 777 copies. A wonderful copy that is SIGNED and inscribed by Charles Bukowski "The banality of good art is its almost everlastingness which bore schoolchildren drunkards and me. Charles Bukowski dated /2-18-64." The book is bound in the publisher's wrappers and is in excellent condition. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates. A superb copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.