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Auction archive: Lot number 18

Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window - With an original oil painting by Bukowski and inscribed to Michael Montfort

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$4,800
Auction archive: Lot number 18

Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window - With an original oil painting by Bukowski and inscribed to Michael Montfort

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$4,800
Beschreibung:

Title: Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window - With an original oil painting by Bukowski and inscribed to Michael Montfort Author: Bukowski, Charles Place: [Glendale, CA] Publisher: [Poetry X/Change] Date: [1968] Description: 21x16.2 xm (8¼x6½") Front cover of medium-weight goldenrod, title printed in black, glued to the stub of the rear cover of the white wrappers of the regular issue. First Edition. A special copy, with an original oil painting on page 8 of the little man, wine glass in hand. Contrary to the description in Sanford Dorbin's bibliography, the poem "Cows in Art Class" is sill present, printed tail to head across the verso of leaf 7 and the recto of leaf 8. Inscribed by Bukowski on the title page: "For Michael Montfort, Now my jump will be 2 stories. Hank. Charles Bukowski." Dorbin A12; Krumhansl 28. Provenance: The Estate of Michael Montfort. Lot Amendments Condition: Light soiling to wrappers; some cracking to oil paints; very good. Item number: 250904

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
11 Sep 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window - With an original oil painting by Bukowski and inscribed to Michael Montfort Author: Bukowski, Charles Place: [Glendale, CA] Publisher: [Poetry X/Change] Date: [1968] Description: 21x16.2 xm (8¼x6½") Front cover of medium-weight goldenrod, title printed in black, glued to the stub of the rear cover of the white wrappers of the regular issue. First Edition. A special copy, with an original oil painting on page 8 of the little man, wine glass in hand. Contrary to the description in Sanford Dorbin's bibliography, the poem "Cows in Art Class" is sill present, printed tail to head across the verso of leaf 7 and the recto of leaf 8. Inscribed by Bukowski on the title page: "For Michael Montfort, Now my jump will be 2 stories. Hank. Charles Bukowski." Dorbin A12; Krumhansl 28. Provenance: The Estate of Michael Montfort. Lot Amendments Condition: Light soiling to wrappers; some cracking to oil paints; very good. Item number: 250904

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
11 Sep 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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