(Books) It Catches My Heart in its Hands: New & Selected Poems 1955-1963 Author: Bukowski, Charles Place Published: [New Orleans] Publisher: Loujon Press Date Published: 1963 Description: 97 pp. Introduction by John William Corrington. With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. 26x18.5 cm (10x7"), hand-bound in stiff pictorial wrappers with cork-lined front cover, attached jacket with tissue sheet tipped-on (as issued), and pictorial flap over fore-edge around from rear; this copy housed in custom black cloth drop-back box with cover and spine labels. One of 777 copies on different colored and sized hand-printed paper. First Edition. Signed, inscribed and dated by Charles Bukowski in silver ink on the front free endpaper: "The bars, the hospitals, the jails of the world will tell you everything you need to know. Charles Bukowski, 12-7-63." Bukowski's most beautifully produced book and the crowning achievement of Loujon Press, with a scarce inscription along with the signature. Laid in as well in a facsimile of an appreciative letter Bukowski wrote to the press after receiving his copy of the book. Dorbin A5; Krumhansl 12. Condition: Light wear and some toning to covers; 2" slit to paper at front hinge; very good or better. Item#: 355301 Headline: It Catches My Heart in its Hands inscribed
(Books) It Catches My Heart in its Hands: New & Selected Poems 1955-1963 Author: Bukowski, Charles Place Published: [New Orleans] Publisher: Loujon Press Date Published: 1963 Description: 97 pp. Introduction by John William Corrington. With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. 26x18.5 cm (10x7"), hand-bound in stiff pictorial wrappers with cork-lined front cover, attached jacket with tissue sheet tipped-on (as issued), and pictorial flap over fore-edge around from rear; this copy housed in custom black cloth drop-back box with cover and spine labels. One of 777 copies on different colored and sized hand-printed paper. First Edition. Signed, inscribed and dated by Charles Bukowski in silver ink on the front free endpaper: "The bars, the hospitals, the jails of the world will tell you everything you need to know. Charles Bukowski, 12-7-63." Bukowski's most beautifully produced book and the crowning achievement of Loujon Press, with a scarce inscription along with the signature. Laid in as well in a facsimile of an appreciative letter Bukowski wrote to the press after receiving his copy of the book. Dorbin A5; Krumhansl 12. Condition: Light wear and some toning to covers; 2" slit to paper at front hinge; very good or better. Item#: 355301 Headline: It Catches My Heart in its Hands inscribed
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