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Here's what I got at the auction: JACK SHIT. I wanted X-Ray #1 but $1,680 is way over what I can afford. That's kind of a relief. If the hammer price was $50 above my high bid I'd be eating my heart out for weeks. Never mind the books...did you see what the boxes of photos went for...

Here's the Montfort archive for sale on September 11th at Pacific Book Auction. It looks like everything is uploaded but there still may be a few stragglers. Some tasty morsels. http://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/341/

Easy for you to say sitting there in your La-Z-Boy with a tony cocktail in your hand. Try it under the lamps.

That category is a loss leader. Don't expect to see it again.

Here's the episode on YouTube. Buk questions towards the end of the program. The contestants avoided the category like the plague.

This is a lot of money but I'm telling you this was a fucking steal. A much lesser copy sold at the Runfola auction last June for a lot more that this. This copy is in perfect condition. And it's inscribed. If the economy wasn't in the shitter this would have sold for close to double.

That's a pretty damn good painting, too. Glad you got it instead of a book dealer. You aren't a book dealer, are you?

I think I might know how this happened. Dan, correct me if I'm wrong. The thumbnail photo in the auction listing was of the crappy copy of Post Office. Naturally, nobody bothered to click on the auction link, except for our brilliant friend here. Had he used the painting for his thumbnail, the...

I caught some mjp shrapnel! It was only a matter of time. You can't poke a angry bear with a sharp stick and not expect to get raked with his claws. Incidentally, your observation regarding rare book collectors and readers is astute and correct.

Am I wrong for enjoying this so much?

Well, color me schooled. Fortunately, Madonna is about to perform at halftime. That should lift my spirits considerably.

This one has been collected but not by Black Sparrow. I post it for the edification and enlightenment of those who have wasted their energies damning Martin for his supposed revisions to Bukowski's work. Here we have a poem published in 1961 in San Francisco Review No. 8 (on the left). It next...

Here you go.

I'm posting the version 12,000 Dollars in 3 Months... from Midwest No. 4, 1962, and the version from Roominghouse Madrigals for comparison purposes. But I have another question aside from the changes. Can anyone tell me what the green pen notations are in my copy of Midwest? Isn't that usually...

I concur. Typo, it is.

Yes, it's from NZ. But there is also a "mooring line," which is a nautical term.

Another oddity from Cave 4, November 1973. What do you think?

Here's the cover of Cave 4, a little out of New Zealand from 1973 with an interesting photo of Bukowski. Below that is A Hot Tip on the Future which, according to the database, is uncollected. It's not so special. A brief word about all my photos: I take them with my mobile phone in poor...

Don't miss The Fourth Annual NYC Charles Bukowski Tribute Reading at the intimate Cornelia Street Cafe in the heart of the Greenwich Village. An event that would have made Bukowski wretch.

This morsel is from Midwest No. 2, 1961.

Will do. I'm leaving town for the holiday and will post when I return next week. I think there might be another unpublished or, at the very least, unedited poem in this issue. Will post that as well.

From Cave 4, November 1973. An obscure poetry mag out of New Zealand. This issue features a Bukowski section with a cover photo that rivals Erections, etc. for its hideousness. Also an essay, Notes of a Dirty Old Man (An Introduction to Charles Bukowski) by G.J. Melling.

They all seemed to be in pretty worn condition. Normally, condition is king, but the inscriptions made that rule kind of moot.

A group of inscribed paperbacks were just auctioned off on eBay. I haven't seen a mention of these and thought they were mildly interesting. The books belonged to Bill Barisoff. Barisoff was an agent for jockeys who passed away in August. Most of the inscriptions have a horse/track theme and are...