Description:
New York:
Kunst Editions
2001.
Decorative Cloth.
First Edition.
Folio. Limited to an edition of 65 copies, this is one of 35 numbered copies offered for sale. This beautiful handbound presentation contains 18 previously unpublished poems by Charles Bukowski. Illustrated with photographs of Bukowski by Joan Levine Gannij who has also contributed the introductory essay, "The Day I Met Bukowski." The foreword is by Carl Weissner, Bukowski's close friend and translator. The poems are handset and printed in a font closely resembling the typeface of Bukowski's old Underwood typewriter on which these poems were originally written in the 1970s. The beautiful original photographs of Bukowski have been printed by hand from the original negatives. The sheets are laid into a deluxe handmade box. A large and exquisite item.
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