Double signed copy of Crucifix?

[Purple Stickpin]

Only $30? That's the price of a CD over here, so maybe my theory still holds up after all...

In 1960 a coke was 5 or 10 cents now $1.00 to $1.89 at least 10 times as much. So a $7.00 book would be $70 to $100. or so. I think Bukowski was having a tough time with the texture and was trying to be neat. Hence, your book is priceless, worth maybe $20,000,000. or so.

Whadda I know? $70-$100. Sure, certainly possible.

LTS, you have a very beautiful book, signed by Buk with an uncertain page.

Enjoy the words, and the fact that it is indeed signed by Buk. That's how I'd look at it. I hope I didn't portray otherwise.

 

[Rekrab]

A $7 book would have felt expensive in the 60s. I think practically anyone who bought or owned a copy of CRUCIFIX would have felt it was something special. Then again, I've seen a couple of defaced copies of this and the other Loujon Bukowski book, so who knows, but that second signature doesn't look like someone goofing around trying to copy his signature. As a buyer or seller, I would take it at face value. I think it's exactly what it appears to be, a second signature. Speaking of relative values, I remember a bookstore in Long Beach was selling mint copies of CRUCIFIX as rare books for $25 in the late 70s, and I never could afford it -- that was expensive then.

 

[mjp]

The Beatles were not billionaires, I can assure you of that.Millionaires? Yup. Billionaires? No way.

"Were" being the operative phrase. McCartney is a billionaire now. And why do you think Lennon loved New York so much? ;) Though murder is a high price to pay for lower taxes.

But yes, here in the US, $7 in the 1960's must have been like $30 today.

$50.29.

Anyway, I think it's perfectly believable someone "practiced" a signature in that book. I've seen weirder things. I have a dictionary here somewhere that is "signed" by Miriam Webster and the half dozen or so other editors. All in the same hand.

We still don't have a scan, but based on those pictures, if that was the only signature in the book, I wouldn't buy it, and I'd still say to anyone who asked that it does not appear to be genuine.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

"Were" being the operative phrase. McCartney is a billionaire now.

Not for long if he keeps getting married. ;)

Anyway, I think it's perfectly believable someone "practiced" a signature in that book. I've seen weirder things. I have a dictionary here somewhere that is "signed" by Miriam Webster and the half dozen or so other editors. All in the same hand.

That's crazy funny. :D Isn't it the "Merriam Company," and they produce Merriam-Webster? Somthin' ain't addin' up here.

We still don't have a scan, but based on those pictures, if that was the only signature in the book, I wouldn't buy it, and I'd still say to anyone who asked that it does not appear to be genuine.

LTS posted a scan in post #13.

Here's the signature scan.

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