Post Office
by Bukowski, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket (as issued)
- ISBN 10
- 0876850867
- ISBN 13
- 9780876850862
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 120pp, printed wrappers. One of 2000 stated copies of this first printing (1971 date on title page) in wrappers. Unmarked copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations, spotting to page edges and moderate soil and toning.
Synopsis
"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.
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- Bookseller
- Philip Smith, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- OLN176
- Title
- Post Office
- Author
- Bukowski, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0876850867
- ISBN 13
- 9780876850862
- Publisher
- Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Charles Bukowski Post Office Los Angeles Free Press California Black Sparrow Press Alcoholism Seventies Counterculture experimental writing avant-garde Literature novel postwar American West Coast 0876850867
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Terms of Sale
Philip Smith, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Philip Smith, Bookseller
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- Jacket
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- Wrappers
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- Edges
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- VG
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