Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Bukowski, Charles. Betting on the Muse. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1996.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Signed/Limited Edition. Number 149 of 226 copies signed by Bukowski. A very sharp copy of this scarce edition. Book is protected in the original clear acetate dustjacket. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Betting on the Muse. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1996.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Signed limited edition. Number 59 of 226 copies signed by Charles Bukowski and handbound by Earle Gray. Title label on spine is slightly lifting, and there are several small, faint marks to textblock edge, though still Fine in publisher's lightly rubbed acetate jacket.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author (next to the drawing of a small dog), this being copy 'N'. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [12],13-402,[6]pp. Fine in a lightly-rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Substantial volume of poems and stories, the first released by Black Sparrow following Bukowski's death in 1994. The lettered issue is uncommon. Krumhansl 150d.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.