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Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct. 12 (weekend sale item)* 34 pp., paperback, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

107 pp.; 32 colour plates of paddles, war clubs, headrests, ancestor figures, etc. 13 b/w field photographs. Honolulu, 1990. Pbk. Former Library copy with a crack in back cover. KEYWORDS: 020 Oceania/Australia.

First Edition. Small tabloid (26cm); pale yellow sheets (measuring 10" x 14"), with text and illustrations offset printed in black, side-stapled; 8pp; illus. Inscribed by editor John Bryan along the lower margin of p.7: "John Bryan, editor / Printed with Neal Cassady in my Potrero Hill Basement." Horizontal fold at center, subtle toning along the fold, with some mild wear and handling, and a few tiny spots on terminal leaf; Very Good+. The first and only appearance Bukowski made in John Bryan's short-lived Open City Press, the precursor his long-running LA underground newspaper Open City. "if I could only be asleep" is a short story about the interaction between Bukowski and a woman he's sharing a bed with. While lacking some of the raunch of his later work, the contribution marked the start of a long and productive relationship with Bryan, who would go on to publish Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column in his newspaper. While issues of Open City appear with regularity in the marketplace, Open City Press issues were produced in considerably smaller numbers, appearing infrequently. A well-preserved copy, with a particularly revelatory inscription. Debritto B175; Dorbin D28. …