Search Results: In the Shadow Of the Rose by Charles Bukowski

Santa Rosa, Ca: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Edition Limited. Quarto. #232 of 750 copies. signed by Bukowski. 85pp. This issue was dedicated to Sean Penn. Each poem is strongly autobiographical and especially "Hangovers". The poem "The word" speaks of his life in cheap rooming house trying to survive while reading Hemingway, Kierkegaard, E.E. Cummings and falling asleep drunk while the paperbacks hit the store causing the landlady to complain about the noise. A fine copy bound in ¼ black cloth over decorative paper covered boards lettered and decorated in black, turquoise, gray and pink, paper spine label lettered in black and turquoise in the original plain turquoise dust jacket with 3 small closed edge tears. (Krumhansl 22).

Santa Rosa, California, U.S.A.: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, numbered and signed issue: 751 signed copies were published July 25, 1991, 750 copies numbered 1-750 plus one copy marked "File Copy," this is number 735 signed by Charles Bukowski on the colophon page. Krumhansl 122a. Black cloth backstrip, paper spine label, decorated boards, plain turquoise paper dust jacket plus clear acetate dj. Dust jacket has small crease at base of spine otherwise fine.

Black Sparrow Press, 1991. Signed Limited Edition. Fine in fine bright dust jacket. #349 of a signed limited edition of 750.

BLACK SPARROW Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). FIirst Edition. SIGNED LIMITED ONE OF 26 85, [2] pp. (4to) cloth-backed boards, acetate jacket. Copy 'U' of 26 lettered copies. First Edition. Signed by Bukowski at the colophon. Krumhansl 122b..