Lot 312: BUKOWSKI, CHARLES

FLOWER, FIST AND BESTIAL WAIL. [EUREKA, CALIFORNIA]: HEARSE PRESS, [1960] 8vo, first edition, one of 200 copies, original drawing by the author bound in, stapled in original printed wrappers, preserved in a fitted cloth clamshell case, some very minor rust-marks around the staples, new staples

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The author’s first book. Bukowski is known to have produced no more than five “author’s edition” copies of this work, in which he stapled in a drawing or manuscript poem. Copies are also known where this drawing has been added later. The distinctive drawing in this copy is entitled “What do you know about sex?”, and is signed “Buk”.