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Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship. Black Sparrow Press, 1998, 1998.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine in a Fine jacket. 1st Printing. Number 81 of 426 copies with an original signed color serigraph portrait of Bukowski by Crumb.

Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.

Bukowski, Charles. The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors HaveTaken over the Ship - Signed Limited Edition. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, California, U.S.A., 1998.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine in its original acetate sleeve, number 28 of 426 copies hand bound in boars by Earle Gray, each containing a color serigraph portrait of Charles Bukowski and signed by the artist Charles Crumb.

Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.

Bukowski, Charles;Crumb, R.. The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, California, U.S.A., 1998.

Price: US$425.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Number 206 of 426 copies containing an original signed color serigraph portrait of Charles Bukowski by Robert Crumb. Acetone jacket looks to have just a little wear. Red cloth spine with illustrated vanilla white boards has two minor scuffs on the top and bottom edge near the spine on the back. The hinges and the spine are very good. The inside pages are bright and look unmarked.

Seller: M and N Books and Treasures, Bellevue, WA, U.S.A.

Charles Bukowski. The Captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship. Black Sparrow Press, 1998.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Fine in a Fine jacket. 1st Printing. 1998 Number 243 of 426 copies with an original signed color serigraph portrait of Bukowski by Crumb. Signed by Crumb.

Seller: Hulme Fine Books, Maryville, IL, U.S.A.

Bukowski, Charles. The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship. BLACK SPARROW, 1998.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A FINE FIRST IN DJ. ONE OF 400 numbered copies SIGNED BY CRUMB.

Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.

Bukowski, Charles (stories); Crumb, R. (illustrations). THE CAPTAIN IS OUT TO LUNCH AND THE SAILORS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE SHIP - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1998.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Deluxe Issue, one of six copies specially bound and designated for use by the author, publisher, and members within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the illustrator on a four-color silkscreened portrait of Bukowski. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-144,[4]pp; illus. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A series of Bukowski's journal entries from 1991-1993, illustrated throughout with Crumb's trademark black and white pen illustrations. Lettered copies uncommon. Krumhansl 156d.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.

Bukowski, Charles. The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship. BLACK SPARROW, 1998.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A FINE FIRST IN DJ. ONE OF 26 THIS IS LETTER R. SIGNED BY CRUMB. SERIGRAPH SIGNED BY CRUMB. PORTRAIT OF BUKOWSKI LETTER S

Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.

Bukowski, Charles; Crumb, Robert (Illustrator). The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1998.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Handbound in boards with camo cloth spine, signed serigraph by underground artist Robert Crumb, letter "P" of 26 lettered copies. 144, (1) pp. Fine in original clear wraps. A beautiful copy of a deluxe posthumous publication.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Bukowski, Charles (Illustrated by Robert Crumb). The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship [Signed]. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1998.

Price: US$1351.57 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION. SIGNED by illustrator Robert Crumb ("R. Crumb") in pencil, below serigraph, as called for. Number 373 of 426 copies. With original colour SERIGRAPH PRINT bound into the front, as issued. The serigraph is a portrait of Bukowski by Crumb. Additionally illustrated with 12 full-page b&w drawings by Robert Crumb. From colophon page at rear: "Printed March 1998 in Santa Barbara & Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press by Mackintosh Typography & Edwards Brothers Inc. Text set in Calisto with Korinna display by Words Worth. Design by Barbara Martin. This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 1,000 hardcover trade copies; & 426 copies hardbound in boards by Earle Gray each containing an original signed color serigraph portrait of Charles Bukowski by Robert Crumb". Title page printed in black & blue. Printed on acid-free paper. Bound in publisher's original pictorial boards, backed by red cloth spine with printed paper label, blue endpapers, in clear unprinted mylar dustjacket, as issued. A FINE very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 144pp. Scarce signed copy. RARE.

Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia