Detroit, MI: The Alternative Press, 1970. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. “I knew and liked Bukowski’s poems from before we started the press in 1969. We had been corresponding and he seemed to like our format of poetry postcards, broadsides, bookmarks, bumper stickers, etc. So it was only a natural process to get something from him and publish it. Even though the poem ‘chilled green’ was printed, we did something..... More

San Francisco, CA: Second Coming Press, 1976. First Printing. Single Sheets. "I get many phonecalls [sic] now. / they are similar: / "are you Charles Bukowski, / the writer?" / "yes," I tell them. / and they tell me / that they understand my / writing, / and some of them are writers / or want to be writers / and they have dull and / torturous jobs / and..... More

West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1981. Limited First Edition. Single Sheet. “my cat | leaped | into the fireplace | burning | as Van Gogh | slit | the rear screen | and entered | looking | for | the blue whore | of nowhere.” (night work) This postcard-sized poetry broadside features Charles Bukowski’s (1920-1994) “night work,” which is from Bukowski’s 1981 collection Dangling in the Tournefortia..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Takoma Records, 1980. Second Edition. Vinyl LP Record in Sleeve. “Bukowski lives in the underbelly of America with the whores, pimps, gamblers, bouncers and bums of Hollywood. From his one-room apartment off Hollywood and Western in the red-light district of the City of Broken Dreams he sculpts the characters of the streets, bars, brothels, and race-tracks with his old Royal portable. Up on the corner SOLID CITIZEN..... More

Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet. “Vallejo writing about / loneliness while starving to / death; / Van Gogh’s ear rejected by a / whore; / Rimbaud running off to Africa / to look for gold and finding / an incurable case of syphilis; / Beethoven gone deaf; / Pound dragged through the streets / in a cage; / Chatterton taking rat poison;..... More

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. Single Sheet. "...and here | as ever | is the | typewriter." (last stanza, "I Pour a Drink and Toast to Love"). Offered today is the promotional broadside/card I Pour a Drink and Toast to Love (Debritto A172, pg. 87). Originally published in Relentless as the Tarantula in 1986 (Debritto A100, pg. 53) and titled "I Pour a Drink and Toast the Love..... More

Santa Barbara, CA, USA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Softcover Edition. “Manny Hyman had been in show business since he was sixteen. Four decades of it and still he didn’t have a pot to puke in. He was working one of the lounges at the Sunset Hotel. The small lounge. He, Manny, was the “Comedy.” Vegas wasn’t what it used to be. The money had gone to Atlantic City where..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: The Paget Press, 1983. First Softcover Edition. “Near 20 years later and Cruise missiles about to land in the laundry bag. And I think I was a pretty callow 45-year-old back then, with too much ego and too little talent. So what does that make me now? Not much different, I think, except much older. Most of the opinions expressed back then I’m stuck with: I still..... More

Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "The guy didn't have much of a face, | he didn't have much of anything. | But sometimes small people who | stay in the same place for a long | time achieve minor prestige and | power. He had the truck and he | was hiring. Sometimes you have | to go along with that." (excerpt, A Couple..... More

No Place: Jack Grapes, 2007. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “It’s 1964. Late spring, almost summer. In New Orleans, the maple trees hang their leaves and branches over the old cracked streets. I’m sitting in a classroom, about to take the first of two French final exams, and if I am to graduate, I’d better pass them. I reach under my desk and bring up a copy of Racine’s Phaedre..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2007. Limited First Edition. Folded Sheet in Wrappers. Signed by Linda King. "He didn't spare words for me/ In all the years after we separated/ It was Jane he loved and missed/ Even when I was with him/ He programmed me to act like Jane/ I was there to test his new found fame/ That needed to be tested over and over/ I was..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2006. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by Linda King & illustrator Soheyl Dahi. "A am obsessed/ With horse racing/ I am sure that I am/ Just on the verge/ Of getting it right/ For the big killing/ I mean the really/ Big killing/ Yet, as my money/ Disappears/ I can not believe/ I am a loser/ I just haven't got/ It right/ It/..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2005. Limited First Edition. Single Folded Sheet. Signed by Linda King. "The essence of Bukowski/ Still linger years after his death/ Because his hard-edged/ Writing is sanity/ In a troubled world soft/ With religious concepts/ With unreasonable war/ With power grabbing/ With corporate greed/ With fuzzy thinking/ With insane actions" (first lines) A broadside with the title poem by LInda King (b. 1940), an..... More