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Charles Bukowski,Michael Montfort. Shakespeare Never Did This. City Lights, 1979.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. Signed by author!.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover trade issue. Signed by author and photographer on title page. Fine with near fine dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gold stamped lettering on spine. Dust jacket with $14.95 price and photographs of Bukowski on front and rear panels, one small tear at top right corner. Interior bright and clean. Shakespeare Never Did This follows Bukowski as he travels through Europe on a literary tour, including a visit to his hometown of Andernach, Germany. The trip was documented by photographer Michael Montfort, who captures the author with all of his humor and humanity. Bukowski notoriously hated having his photograph taken, but was charmed by Montfort. The photographer described their first meeting: "It was a 1977 cover story for a German literary magazine named Rogners.I was scared shitless to meet the guy because of his image. I thought I'd never get out alive. So I brought a case of beer or wine, and that impressed him for the next 20 years." (Montfort for Salon, 2000) Krumhansl 69. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. SIGNED. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1979. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket, Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Some rubbing to the bottom of the boards; otherwise Fine. Dust jacket is price clipped, but free of tears, and protected in mylar. This copy is signed on the title page by both Bukowski and Montfort. There is a pencil notation, probably in Red Stodolskyâs hand, on the ffep which reads: âLtd. Ed. 1 of 30 signed by bothâ. Extremely scarce thus.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by both Charles Bukowski and photographer Michael Montfort on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine, with light rubbing to cloth at tips, pages toned and lightly thumbed. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with light toning and light edge wear, with short splits at the ends of the rear flap fold. One of roughly 300 copies printed. Bukowski's experiences in Europe illustrated with black and white photos taken by Michael Montfort. Krumhansl 69b.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.