Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1,500 paperback copies, unnumbered, but signed by the author on the cover. A Fine copy. Bound in light blue paper, one of the stapled copies (100 were sewn) with silver, magenta, and black cover design featuring the text "A New Year's Greeting From Black Sparrow Press" and black flyleaves. Alone In A Time Of Armies, was a single poem published as a by Black Sparrow Press for their 1985 "New Year's Greeting." A truly moving piece set in Philadelphia during WWII in which Bukowski reflects on his self-inflicted isolation during a lonely night. With a pleasing cover and title page design reminiscent of artwork by El Lissitzky. Krumhansl 94. Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: tall case. Limited to 226 numbered copies, but this isn't numbered, but it is signed by the poet and marked as a "presentation copy." 8 pages.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Alone in a Time of Armies. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1985.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to 226 copies signed by Bukowski, printed as a New Year's gift for friends of the press. Fine in a Fine plain blue dust jacket. Blue paper on the boards with silver, black, and red ink lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. Alone in a Time of Armies. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1985.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardbound issue. 16mo. 7pp. Light blue pictorial paper-covered boards with design printed in red, silver, and black. Fine copy in fine publisher's unprinted dust jacket with a tiny tear. Printed as a New Year's greeting for the friends of The Black Sparrow Press, the hardcover issue was limited to 226 copies Signed by Bukowski, with 200 numbered and 26 lettered. This is copy letter V. An uncommon issue. *Krumhansl* 94b.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.