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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
WITH AN ORIGINAL INSCRIBED POEM BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. It Catches My Heart in its Hands: New & Selected Poems 1955-1963. With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. 4to, hand-bound in stiff pictorial wrappers printed in orange; pictorial yellow dust jacket with decorative cork-lined front cover, additional attached printed jacket within, with tissue sheet tipped to front panel, crease along rear flap fold as is usually encountered. New Orleans: Loujon Press, (1963)
one of 777 unnumbered copies on different colored and sized hand-printed paper. with an original inscribed 9-line poem in silver pen on front free endpaper that reads "When the / grief of a / donkey / becomes as / important to us / as our own, / then we'll / begin to / live. / Charles / Bukowski / 2-17-64." A beautifully realized production.
