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Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 17 x 10", printed on one side, folds else a nice, clean, fresh copy. Broadside advertising the publication of Bukowski's HAM ON RYE, with a lengthy quote from the text plus information on the various editions ("Paper Edition", "Trade Cloth Edition", "Signed Cloth Edition", and "Special Deluxe Edition Limited to 100 copies." Nice.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski. Ham On Rye. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First USA Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine acetate dust jacket. One of 750 trade edition copies. A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf along with an author drawing of his little man with a bottle: "For Nick Altwerger- Charles Bukowski." Laid into the front of the volume is a sheet of paper with the typewritten message from Bukowski : "Nick, thought I'd send you a personally inscribed copy this time (see p. 7)."
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 350 numbered copies signed by Bukowski who has added a small cartoon figure. Hardcover, bound in cloth backed boards with acetate wrap. Some fading to the spine.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Number 333 of a limited 350 copies signed by Charles Bukowski. Near Fine with light shelf wear, in a lightly rubbed unprinted acetate jacket with a 2-inch split at a flap fold. One of the hard-drinking Los Angeles poet/novelist's best known work, a semi-autobiographical novel about growing up during the great depression.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles Bukowski, #43 of 350 handnumbered copies in the limited issue. 283, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards with yellow cloth backstrip, paper spine label. Fine in the original acetate sleeve, lightly rubbed and clouded. One of the hard-drinking Los Angeles poet/novelist's best known works, a semi-autobiographical novel about growing up during the great depression.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham On Rye. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed Limited Edition with drawings by the author. One of 350 copies; this is #226. Book in fine condition. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Bukowski.. Ham on Rye.. Black Sparrow Press., Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED limited edition. Copy# 53 of 350 signed & numbered. This copy has a drawing by Buk of a dog and an old man with a jug on the colophon. Near fine in yellow quarter cloth and pictorial boards in glassine protective wrapper. (Mild bump at upper tip of front board. ) From the library of writer Larry McMurtry with his bookplate a-fixed to glassine flap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 283 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2975.32 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition, this number 12 of 100 numbered copies signed by and with an original oil painting by Charles Bukowski signed 'Buk'. painting tipped-in with wax-paper tissue-guard between dedication and half-title. Book signed and with author's ink doodle of a man with a bottle to limitation page at rear. Original yellow cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, paper label to spine, acetate dust-jacket. Mint. This is Bukowski's most well-loved work, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story in depression-era Los Angeles. Together with a rare early recording of the author reading his own work. On a casstette tape and without copyright or publisher, the printed wrapper lists 20 works read aloud by the author. in Fine condition. Stated as recorded in 1970
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket as issued, but has original acetate protective cover. 1st Edition. LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies printed. This is number 250 and is boldly SIGNED by Charles Bukowski. The book is as new, a mint copy. Bukowski's fourth novel and one of his most popular titles. Book is protected in the original acetate jacket. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Devoted toBooks, Pleasant Hill, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed limited edition, 1/350. Book in fine condition. Comes in supplied slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies printed. This is number 133 and is authentically SIGNED by Charles Bukowski. The book is in wonderful shape with slight wear to the top spine. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's yellow cloth with paper boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition SIGNED by the author with the acetate dustjacket present.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. This is copy number 56 of 100 deluxe numbered copies signed by Bukowski in the colophon. The abstract oil painting with heavy paint signed by Bukowski is protected with a tissue guard. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 100 numbered copies signed by Bukowski on the limitation page, also signed in the lower corner in black felt tip, "Buk" on an original oil painting by Bukowski opposite the copyright page. 283 pp. Hardcover, bound in cloth backed boards. Unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies with an ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING by Charles Bukowski. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Charles Bukowski on the limitation page. The book is in great shape with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy SIGNED by the author. Includes the publisher's original broadside/flyer NO.8 that was issue with this book.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
BUKOWSKI, Charles. HAM ON RYE. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$4750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy in the fine acetate dustjacket of the rarest form of the signed limited edition. There were 126 copies signed by BUKOWSKI and with an original painting: 26 lettered and 100 numbered copies. This is 27/100. What makes this copy possibly unique is the presence of an (aborted?) second painting on the back of the first one. It looks as though it may have been the start of a sketch for another painting which was abandoned.
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham On Rye. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 100 (126 total) signed/numbered hardcover copies with original artwork, octavo size, 287 pp., signed at colophon. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A cult hero, Bukowski relied on experience, emotion, and imagination in his work, using direct language and violent and sexual imagery" (n.b., from the web site of the Poetry Foundation). As much as he achieved popular acclaim during his lifetime, his reputation and following have only increased after his death. In addition to being an author, Bukowski also was an artist: he painted on 6" by 9" paper "with thick layers of acrylics, oil paint, watercolors, pastels, crayons, pens - whatever was at hand. They were sent to Black Sparrow [whose editor, John Martin, was a friend of Bukowski's] where they were bound into special hardcover first editions of his books" (n.b., from the web site of Bukowski [dot] net). This volume, "Ham on Rye" is Bukowski's semi-autobiograhical coming-of-age novel; it explores many themes which would crop up often in his writings, including disenfranchisement and the myth of the American Dream: "I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them." This volume No. 59 of the 126 signed/numbered hardcover copies with original artwork, a colourful abstract work filled with primary colours over which can be discerned the grey outlines of facial features, perhaps evoking the indivitual overwhelmed by the system, another favourite theme. ___DESCRIPTION: Blue cloth shelfback with paper spine label with blue and red lettering, yellow paper over boards with half-tone reproductions of photographs and red and blue lettering on the front, coloured rules on the rear board, turquoise blue endpapers, title page in red, blue and yellow, in addition to the 126 deluxe copies there were 1200 standard copies; octavo size (9.25" by 6.25"), pagination: [1-8] 9-283 [1, blank] [1, colophon, signed by Bukowski in black ink] [1, blank] [1, black and white photograph of Bukowski with bio]. In a dust wrapper of clear acetate from the publisher. ___CONDITION: Fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, as new. The publisher's acetate dust wrapper near fine with light overall marks. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Bukowski, Charles. Ham on Rye. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover, lettered, signed and illustrated issue. Copy letter "Q" of limited 47 signed copies each with an original painting by Bukowski tipped in, of which 26 were lettered. Additionally signed by Bukowski on the rear limitation page. (Krumhansl 74f.) 283 pp. Bound in yellow paper covered boards over a red cloth backstrip overprinted with small black and white cubes, and paper title label to spine. Fine in Near Fine original acetate jacket, which is slightly rubbed and worn. One of the hard-drinking poet and writer's most beloved works, an autobiographical coming-of-age novel, signed and with his original artwork.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.