Books and Manuscripts

Various locations, ca. 1960s-90s. Together 67 items, including books, screenplays, newsletters, printed flyers and other various ephemera (some photocopied). Size and condition vary, generally fine or as-new.

1. Fox, Hugh
Charles Bukowski: A Critical and Bibliographical Study, and Related Ephemera
(Somerville, MA): Abyss Publications, 1969. Presumed printing proof; signed by Bukowski on title-page. 4to. 121 pp. Original limp pictorial yellow wrappers; all edges trimmed. Also included, various ephemera related to publication of this volume, including 55 proof sheets of the above volume, a proof introduction for same, as well as a photocopy of the book publishing agreement between Fox and Water Row Books for the volume's 20th Anniversary Edition, ca. 1988. Also included are five typed letters between Fox, Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books, John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, and Bukowski (photocopy) concerning this publication and Bukowski's disapproval of its reprint, and Fox's defense of it.

2. Carpenter, Don
Screenplay for "Post Office"
Los Angeles: Playboy Productions New Visions Inc., ca. 1977. Photocopy of a typed screenplay for Bukowski's popular, but unrealized, adaptation of Post Office; signed by Bukowski on front blank. 4to. 136 pp. Title-page marked "Confidential". Bound in original red plastic binder.

3. Screenplay for "Barfly"
(California), 1980. Photocopy of a typed screenplay for Barbet Schroeder's film adaptation of Bukowski's "Barfly"; signed by Bukowski on title-page. New Draft, "Jazz-Soup" Version. 4to. 109 pp. Original stiff blue wrappers, typed paper label on front wrapper; all edges trimmed.

4. Amidei, Sergio, and Marco Ferreri, and Anthony Foutz
Screenplay for "Tales of Ordinary Madness"
Rome, Italy, ca. 1981. Photocopy of a typed screenplay for the 1981 Italian film adaptation of Bukowski's Tales of Ordinary Madness; signed by Bukowski on front wrapper. 4to. 78, (2) pp. Bound in original paper binder, typed paper cover label.

5. Bukowski, Charles, and Al Purdy
The Bukowski//Purdy Letters: A Decade of Dialogue 1964-1974
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, (1983). First and limited edition, #120/200 numbered copies signed by Bukowski and Purdy, with an additional doodle, by Bukowski, of a man with a bottle, next to his signature. Original blue cloth over light blue boards, stamped in red, black, and blue, original paper spine label; all edges trimmed; light blue endpapers; in acetate dust-jacket.

6. Barfly: The Continuing Saga of Henry Chinaski
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, (1984). First and limited edition, #130/200 numbered copies signed by Bukowski. 8vo. Illustrated by Bukowski. Original quarter red cloth over black boards, stamped in various colors, original printed paper spine label; all edges trimmed; black endpapers; in acetate dust-jacket. Krumhansl 90c

7. Bukowski, Charles
The Day it Snowed in L.A.: The Adventures of Clarence Hiram Sweetmeat
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, (1986). First and limited edition, #199/200 numbered copies signed by Bukowski. 8vo. Unpaginated (34 pp.). Original quarter yellow patterned cloth over white boards, stamped in various colors, original paper spine label; all edges trimmed; pink endpapers; in acetate dust-jacket.

8. Screenplay for "Buk (The Life and Times of Charles Bukowski)"
No place, no date. Photocopy of a typed screenplay. 4to. 89 pp. In original blue plastic binder.

9. Sure, The Charles Bukowski Newsletter
California, 1991-93. Nine issues in seven volumes. Original stiff printed paper wrappers.

10. The New Censorship: The Monthly Journal of the Next Savage State
(Colorado), 1991-93. In three volumes. Vol. 2, No. 3 (June, 1991); Vol. 3, No. 1 (April, 1992); Vol. 4, No. 2 (May, 1993). June 1991 issue signed and doodled by Bukowski on front wrapper. Original stiff printed paper wrappers.

Lot includes 37 pieces of ephemera, including postcards, a signed photograph, flyers, bookmarks, and photocopied material related to Bukowski.