THE WORMWOOD REVIEW - NOS.81 & 82 (VOL.21, NOS.1-2) - INSCRIBED TO JOHN MARTIN

Bukowski, Charles (contributor); Malone, Marvin (editor)

Published by The Wormwood Review Press, Stockton, CA, 1981

About this Item

Deluxe Issue, one of 50 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.3. Slim octavo (21.25cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 48pp; illus. This copy bears a full-page inscription on the verso of the front wrapper to John Martin, Bukowski's primary publisher at Black Sparrow Press: "For Big John Martin / Who I know will be big enough to know that every day it begins all over again no matter what preceded. (It). / And that nothing is serious enough to take serious / A good shit is a good start / After that, maybe the luck and the laughter / Yr boy / Henry Charles Bukowski Jr." Hint of sunning to spine, faint, tiny stain to lower left corner of front wrapper, with a tiny stain to inner rear wrapper and the opposing margin; Near Fine. Special issue of WR, containing a 20pp section printed on orange stock dedicated to Bukowski's work - Charles Bukowski's Good-By To Hollywood (Plus Four Drawings). With additional contributions by Phil Weidman, Lyn Lifshin, Steve Richmond, Gerald Locklin, Guy Cochrane, and others. A superb association copy, obviously, but it's worth noting that of the thousands of signed Bukowski items that have passed through our hands, we've seen fewer than a handful where he's signed his full name. Debritto B1139.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE WORMWOOD REVIEW - NOS.81 & 82 (VOL.21, NOS.1-2) - INSCRIBED TO JOHN MARTIN
• Publisher: The Wormwood Review Press, Stockton, CA
• Publication Date: 1981
• Edition: First Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Charles Bukowski
  • Association Copies