1981 February 2 - letter to Keyser

[horsewnoname]

Just saw this today but seems a bit pricey to say the least for a letter from '81. I am not at home with the actual worthiness of these letters, so I wonder what does this worth actually?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHARLES-BUK...471?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35dfe2c52f

 

[skiroomalum]

I would pay $250. What's interesting to me is how polite Hank is in responding to what was probably a fairly inane letter.

 

[horsewnoname]

Thanks for telling, yes it's quite an interesting letter which understandably adds to the price but I wouldn't go either higher than $250 in this case.

 

[PhillyDave]

Being the infamous PhillyDave I would love to have that letter but alas, I don't have that kind of cash right now... Very cool letter indeed.

 

[skiroomalum]

Just a guess, but it will probably end up somewhere south of $600 before too long. Unless the seller decides to hold off
until the mythical skyrocketing of the Buk market.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

If i met Ski at a station to close the deal, I'd push him on the track to get the letter... then again, there's way too many cameras these days... I'd just pull a Cos and bring him back to my apartment and drug him instead...

P.S. I'll miss the Chairman, but i think he had his 15 minutes in New York time...

 

[mjp]

until the mythical skyrocketing of the Buk market.

It's not mythical where some items are concerned (books with paintings, Bukowski art in general).

But $750 for a letter is steep, especially considering he bought it in 1994. I was buying a few letters and manuscripts back then (through the mail, per-Internet), and I don't think I ever paid more than $60 for a letter. Wait, that's not true, I paid $150 for a letter...but it came with two 1960s poem manuscripts.

Of course that was 20 years ago. Bill Clinton was president and a gallon of gas was $1.25.

 

[roni]

[...] $150 for a letter...but it came with two 1960spoem manuscripts. [...]

mjp! Bastard, basterd, bastard!

 

[mjp]

If it makes you feel any better, my ex has the manuscripts and the letter.

 

[skiroomalum]

?
Do you think he'll ever give them back?

 

[mjp]

I'm afraid not. He ran off with Cirque du Soleil and died in a freak leotard strangulation accident. I think the manuscripts were burned along with his body on the outskirts of Wichita. It's not really something I like to talk about.

 

[skiroomalum]

Leotardicide most often occurs after Amyl-popping but before Boggle.