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Charles Bukowski. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/Second Issue. Softcover original. Near fine in red wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page. Touch of wear to the bottom edge and light spotting to the top edge of text block. This is the second issue with the corrected white cover label affixed by the publisher over the misprinted title. First book of poetry published by the author with Black Sparrow Press. 800 copies in the first printing with the majority of the copies in the corrected state with the white label.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Charles Bukowski. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968, 1968.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in red wrappers. Small faint circular cup shadow on the white title panel on the front cover. Small splash of white paint and very short tear to the front edge of the rear cover. Inscribed by Bukowski to the late Omaha Poet Fred Zydek " The Terror of these poems is long ago -- But we hang on, What the Hell am I saying? 1 of 800 copies.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. At Terror Street and Agony Way. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Signed by Charles Bukowski, inscribed, "poems - what the hell," to a former owner in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's second state red wraps with a white title label on the front cover. Very Good, wraps worn (especially at yapped edges), title label rubbed. Dampstain to rear cover, and light bleeding along the bottom edge of several pages with a larger stain to the front free end paper. One of 800 wrapper-bound copies issued alongside 75 hardbound; rare signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: Wrappered Issue, Second State, one of 747 copies with publisher's label with corrected title mounted to front wrapper. Octavo (21.75cm); red wrappers, with titling and border printed in black; [8],89,[3]pp; illus. The dedication copy, inscribed in green water-color to Los Angeles poet John Thomas on the preliminary leaf: "For John Thomas / who has trained most of the tigers in his soul and has made them into useful tigers, unlike mine. This is sensible. I am in the cage with mine and they are winning. The only nobility in any man's death is what the living lend it. And most of the living are hardly very noble. Charles Bukowski / June 1st, 1968 / P.S. - Hello, Rosie!" Modest wear to wrappers, light rubbing and dust-soil to title label, with some short tears and attendant creases to yapped edges, and a handful of small stains to margins; Very Good and sound. Offered together with a Fine copy of the publisher's prospectus, both housed together in a custom clamshell case. Bukowski's first book published by Black Sparrow Press, a collection of early poems describing L.A. and Hollywood as cold and inhospitable, containing a marvelous and lengthy inscription, composed two weeks after publication, to poet John Thomas Idlet (1930-2002). Bukowski and Thomas maintained a close friendship between 1965-1971; Thomas was one of the few poets whose company Bukowski could stand, and Bukowski thought enough of his work to call him "the best unread poet in America." During the years of their friendship, Thomas recorded many of his conversations with Bukowski during their visits; after Bukowski's death in 1994, Thomas and his then-wife Philomene Long published the recordings under the title Bukowski in the Bathtub: Recollections of Charles Bukowski. A superb contemporary association copy of an early, significant collection. Krumhansl 27b; Dorbin A11.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.