Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967

Bukowski, Charles; Martinelli, Sheri

ISBN 10: 1574231529 / ISBN 13: 9781574231526

Published by Black Sparrow Press, 2001

About this Item

Beerspit Night and Cursing Author: Charles Bukowski Publication: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA 2001 Edition: First Edition (Limited Lettered Issue) Binding: Hardcover Condition: A Fine copy in a Fine, publisher s original acetate dust jacket. Description: LETTER "L" OF 526 NUMBERED AND LETTERED COPIES BOUND WITH AN ORIGINAL SERIGRAPH PRINT BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI!! First edition, Limited Issue in Fine condition with incredible cloth-covered boards and publisher s original acetate dustjacket also in Fine condition (see photos). 380pp. Store Description Welcome to Allen s Rare Books. Each book in our inventory has been personally inspected, exhaustively described and photographed to meet the standards of the discerning collector. We encourage prospective customers to contact us with any questions. Terms of Sale We accept all major credit cards via the AbeBooks Shopping Cart. Customers have 30 days to return a purchased volume(s) which do not meet their original description or are otherwise unsatisfactory. We are proud to offer free shipping on all standard (octavo) sized volumes. Shipping Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 lbs. or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Each order is packed with the utmost care to ensure safe arrival.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski & Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574231529
• ISBN 13: 9781574231526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski—America's "Ultimate Outsider"

• Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation
• Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted
• Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize.

Sheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.

About the Author

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.