Nov 10, 2016 - Sale 2430

Sale 2430 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. It Catches My Heart in Its Hands: New & Selected Poems 1955-1963 * Crucifix in a Deathhand. Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo and 4to, original printed pictorial wrappers over different colored and sized hand-printed paper, mild rubbing to extremities, second title with publisher's wraparound band, edge split. New Orleans; New York: Loujon Press, 1963; 1965

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two signed limited editions from loujon press. Each signed in the year of publication, the first title bearing a 4-line original poem in Bukowski's hand: "Clowns are / closer to / perfect / than / architects." Gypsy Lou Series nos. 1 and 2. Krumhansl 12; 15.