BUKOWSKI, CHARLES (1920 - 1994)
BUKOWSKI, CHARLES (1920 - 1994)
While the music played. 1973. Sparrow 5. [sold-verkocht]
We'll take them. 1978. Sparrow 72.
Dangling in the Tournefortia. 1989 (Fourth printing) [sold-verkocht]
Bring me your love. 1983 [sold-verkocht]
Herrie & Hartstocht. Sound & Passion. 2003 (sold-verkocht)
SPARROW, BLACK SPARROW PRESS - VARIOUS AUTHORS
Postkantoor
De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam. 1977. Eerste druk. Paperback (gebrocheerd, garenloos). Papieren band met een plastic laagje. Met fotografisch voorplat. 186 pp. 12¾ x 20 x 1 cm. 234 gr. Oorspronkelijke titel Post Office, 1971. Uit het Amerikaans vertaald door Susan Janssen. Omslag Leendert Stofbergen. ISBN-10 90 234 0567 6. 'Charles Bukowski schrijft over wat hij heeft meegemaakt: armoe, baantjes als handarbeider, chronische katers, harde vrouwen, gevangenissen, opstandigheid, mislukking, er onderdoor gaan. Hij maakt de indruk van iemand die met zijn voet in de klem zit en die zijn enkel probeert door te knagen om vrij te komen. Dat zou een hoop larmoyant geschrijf kunnen opleveren als er niet steeds een sardonische humor doorbrak, die je het gevoel geeft dat W.C. Fields op aarde is teruggekeerd, als schrijver.' - Rolling Stone, 17 juni 1976 Postkantoor was Bukowski's eerste roman, en werd geschreven nadat hij geruime tijd op zijn manier in Los Angeles het baantje van brievenbesteller had vervuld. In superplastische taal levert de auteur het verslag van de botsingen tussen de wereld waarin hij leeft en het ambtelijk apparaat waarin hij moet functioneren. Miniscule loslating plastic laagje rechter bovenhoek voorplat. Verder zeer fraai ongelezen exemplaar. In prima staat.
Booknumber: 22636
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SPARROW, BLACK SPARROW PRESS - VARIOUS AUTHORS
Sparrow 1 - 12
Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles. 1973. First [collected] edition. Hardcover. Issues 1 through 12 bound together in heavy beige cloth with a white printed paper label on front cover. Wrapped in acetate dustjacket. Unpaginated. 16¼ x 23¾ x 2¼ cm. 512 gr. This volume presents the first twelve issues of "Sparrow", the literary broadsheet published monthly through the years by Black Sparrow Press, beginning in October 1972 - September 1973, gathered into the publishers' binding of beige boards with title label on front. The individual issues average 16 pages each, each issue the work of an individual author, and are bound in order. Contains: Sparrow 1. The pastorales - Robert Kelly; Sparrow 2. The sanjo bridge - Clayton Eshleman; Sparrow 3. Form is an extension of content - Diane Wakoski; Sparrow 4. Three stories - David Bromige; Sparrow 5. While the music played - Charles Bukowski; Sparrow 6. The creative - Robert Creeley; Sparrow 7. Two essays - Richard Grossinger; Sparrow 8. After the war - David Antin; Sparrow 9. Young Lust & Others - Sherril Jaffe; Sparrow 10. A posthume sketch - Joyce Carol Oates; Sparrow 11. Six Poems - Michael Palmer; Sparrow 12. The miracle - Fielding Dawson. Clean, bright, and unmarked. Near fine.
Booknumber: 12568
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Sparrow 61 - 72
Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara. 1978. First [collected] edition. Hardcover. Issues 61 through 72 bound together in heavy orange cloth with a white printed paper label on front cover. Wrapped in acetate dustjacket. Unpaginated. 16¼ x 23¾ x 2¼ cm. 538 gr. A collection of Black Sparrow Press "Sparrow" publications 61-72, beginning in October 1977 - September 1978, gathered into the publishers' binding of orange boards with title label on front. The individual issues average 16 pages each, each issue the work of an individual author, and are bound in order. Contains: Sparrow 61. Summer Letters - Michael Davidson. Sparrow 62. Two Stories - Eve Shelnutt. Sparrow 63. Dionysus & The Beat: Four Letters on the Archtype - William Everson. Sparrow 64. In a Lost World - Edouard Roditi. Sparrow 65. Battles in Spain: Five Unpublished Poems - Cesar Vallejo. Translated by Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia. Sparrow 66. This Will Kill That - Gerard Malanga. Sparrow 67. Birdscapes, with Seaside - Nathaniel Tarn. Sparrow 68. Wheres - Robert Kelly. Sparrow 69. A Conversation with Hitler - Tom Clark. Sparrow 70. What I Own - Stephen Stepanchev. Sparrow 71. Pachelbel's Canon - Diane Wakoski. Sparrow 72. We'll Take Them - Charles Bukowski. Clean, bright, and unmarked. Near fine.
Booknumber: 11815
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BUKOWSKI, CHARLES (1920 - 1994)
Dangling in the Tournefortia
Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, California. 1989. Fourth printing. Paperback. Paper wrappers. 281 pp. 15 x 23 x 2 cm. 434 gr. Design Barbara Martin. ISBN-10 0876855257. With rare photo of Bukowski in Bukowski-t-shirt by Michael Montfort. Illustration of a large tree in blue on a yellow background on face of cover. Cream coloured paper with red lettering on face and black and red lettering on spine. Dark blue endpapers. There is not a wasted word in "Dangling in the Tournefortia", a selection of poems full of wit, struggles, perception, and simplicity. Charles Bukowski writes of women, gambling and booze while his words remain honest and pure. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: the lady in red; blue collar solitude; one for Sherwood Anderson; bad press; free coffee; black and white roach; true confession; suckerfish; virgins; message; the man at the piano; nightwork; the stink; the lisp; silk; on shooting; blue collar solitude; sick; immortals; Independence day; the Indian and many more. This is a near fine unread bright copy. No markings. No stains. Not ex-library. Part of the "best" of Bukowski (work from the 1970's). Scarce. Collectible. As new.
Booknumber: 11111
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Bring me your love. Illustrations by R. Crumb.
Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, California. 1983. First edition. First printing. Paperback. Paper wrappers. 14 pp. 19 x 26¾ x ¼ cm. 82 gr. Design Barbara Martin. ISBN-10 0876856067. Four Crumb drawings illustrating the Bukowski short story. With Crumb's outlandish copulation illustration. Drawings in black and white. Only the drawing on front cover in colours. With pink endpapers. "This mind-destroying collaboration between two giants." This edition is limited to 5000 copies in paper wrappers. Very fine copy. As new.
Booknumber: 11107
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Herrie & Hartstocht. Sound & Passion.
Bandini, Amsterdam. 2003. Eerste druk. Paperback (gebrocheerd garenlas). Papieren band. 40 pp. 17½ x 25 x ¾ cm. 118 gr. ISBN-10 9080682535. Oorspronkelijke titel "Sound & Passion". Vertaling Susan Janssen. 'Herrie & Hartstocht' van Charles Bukowski, een nooit in boekvorm verschenen verhaal, werd in mei 2003, in opdracht van Uitgeverij Bandini vormgegeven door Martin Kempe, met de hand gezet uit de Diotima en in een oplage van 376 exemplaren gedrukt door De Raddraaier te Amsterdam. Het omslag werd ontworpen door Peter Pontiac. Alle uitgaven werden door de uitgever genummerd of gealfabetiseerd. Dit is nummer 349. Met inlegvel, eveneens genummerd 349, een speciaal geschreven gedicht van Martin Bril. Volledig uitverkocht. Zeer fraai exemplaar. In nieuwstaat.
Booknumber: 11112
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BUKOWSKI, CHARLES (1920 - 1994)
Pulp. A novel.
Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, California. 1994. First edition. Paperback. Paper wrappers. 202 pp. 15 x 23 x 1½ cm. 316 gr. Design Barbara Martin. ISBN-10 0876859260. Title page in color. Uncredited Cover Art (illustrator). The first paper edition of a novel by the late author, known for his low down and usually dirty fiction who gained recognition later in his life.In Los Angeles runs a strange rumor. It is said that a certain Céline , who prowls Bookseller inspecting competition and looking for first editions of Faulkner, would be nothing more nor less than Louis Ferdinand, who had not died in 1961 in Meudon. Nick Belane a little intellectual private detective, is in charge of finding out the truth. And who wants to know it? A lady very fatal, perhaps the most fatal of all, who does not accept that Céline could have escaped his deadly charm. But suddenly the work season has become very good for Nick and has several more issues at hand: find the Red Sparrow, who is the grandson of the Maltese Falcon for one John Barton, and discover whether Cindy, wife of Jack Bass, cheats on her husband. But, as I dutifully showed Raymond Chandler, all cases of a detective always bundled together and between Cindy and Céline considerable mess organized. "Pulp" Bukowski 's last novel is a parody and a tribute to all the "pulp fictions" that have been on the role and a real, literary and bleeding "pulp fiction" in its own right, which turns to tragedy and humor, literature and the purest keys and hard reality, the real and the surreal.Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Céline, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.Depressed, weighed down by a bulky belly, the bill in red, creditors always at the doors, three marriages behind him, Nick Belane is a detective, "the straight detective in Los Angeles." Bukowski plays with an old stereotype and adds his philosophy of polished drunkard, his existentialism tavern and a little gloomy, genuine despair. The bars, the episodic considerations on the fate, the cynicism, the now faded demon sex, failure preofessionale and existential, together with the mere narrative inventions, become the "pulp" of the title. Far from the gloomy atmosphere of ordinary madness, the spiritual testament of a writer who has never hesitated to plunge into the decay of contemporary society.This is Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he s been hired to do. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Céline - who's meant to be dead - but he's also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow - which may or may not be real.Bukowski, the chronicler of life on the edge, has written a delightful, humorous parody of the "hardboiled detective" with Pulp, in the style of Chandler and Hammett. The few successful detective Nick Belane - rent for $ 6 per hour - getting from one day to the other four tasks simultaneously. Belane need one Céline (a failed French writer who refused to die and now terrorizes booksellers) over to a certain Lady Death, he is hired by a funeral director who hassled by a female alien, he needs a friend a red sparrow locate and he must figure out whether the wife of one Jack Bass is adulterous. Pulp abounds in amusing situations and one-liners, and is a worthy farewell to a writer who in his work again and again - and always witty - describes that there is still a lot to be gained is in the gutter. This is a near fine unread bright copy. As new.
Booknumber: 15958
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