Post Your Bukowski Collection

[Purple Stickpin]

Better hardbound:

More common hardbound:

New Year's Greetings, Wormwood Reviews, various pamphlets, etc (Relentless Like the Tarantula and All the Assholes... are buried in there, among other stuff, with some reading copies acting as a bookend (hmmm... a first PB of Women acting as part of a bookend. I need to get my shit together and re-arrange):

Reading copies:

Some mags and A Bukowski Sampler:

Another Academy underneath a double bass bridge:

The good wife and I just finished moving a few weeks back, and it's been "get shit up on shelves" mode for a while. I really need to get this better organized.

But it's all gently-placed and the better smaller items are all in bags or poly sleeves. And this is a walk-in closet out of the sun's rays, so no chance of spine fading. And we have dogs and a security system, if you were wondering.

 

[james]

very nice, PS! i need to get my bookcase in order. just might do that tonight...

 

[Bukfan]

Very nice collection, PS! You've got a good selection of hard covers.

 

[HenryChinaski]

indeed. hang on to those.

 

[Olaf]

(Many here should be canonised for there diligence and dedication to a cause. It's magnificent to see people caring so much about something. Seriously.)

Here is my humble list (in order of purchase, if memory allows):

1: What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
2: Ham on Rye.
3: The last night of the earth poems. (bought in L.A. pasadena.)
4: The days run away like wild horses over the hills.
5: Post Office.
6: Tales of Ordinary Madness.
7: Factotum.
8: Sifting through the madness for the word, the line
9:Bukowski in pictures.
10:Photocopy of - 'Rimbaud be damned'.
11: The roominghouse Madrigals
12: Hot Water Music.

A modest little number. But some of the best. I believe.

 

[LickTheStar]

Nice collection, PS. And if you think smaller images will stop me from drooling over the Fante item (or two maybe?) that I see... you're wrong.

 

[james]

here's a few photos of my bookcase...

a near complete run of black sparrow hc 1sts or better, etc...

wormwoods, full run of outsider, some review copies, various mags and littles...

 

[marina del rey]

Very nice, PS and james!

 

[mjp]

a near complete run of black sparrow hc 1sts or better, etc...

Only near complete?! Bah! You call that a collection?!


Okay, it's a lot better than my torn up ghetto copy shelves.


Is that a Terror Street HC way over on the left or a Bill Roberts clam (or something else)?

 

[1fsh2fsh]

damn nice James.

 

[james]

that would be mr. bill roberts' beautiful clamshell.

and yep, only near complete. the major missing pieces are the black sparrow 1sts of post office and factotum, but i do have the british 1sts as placeholders for the time being...



thanks mdr and 1fsh2fsh!

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Yeah, Bill's clammy are nice. And James, fuckin' right on!

 

[Bukfan]

Awesome collection, James! You're one lucky devil...

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Fine collection, James, but where is the shirt and pen? Are you holding out? Most of us know about the shirt. It trumps everything.

 

[Rekrab]

Now if I had a photo of all the cool Buk stuff I've sold over the years, I could wow you all. Great collections, James and PS.

 

[roni]

yeah!
fantastic collections!
I fuckin' envy you guys!

unfortunately, I can't afford being a collector.

But luckily being the current head of the Buk-Society, I can post you some other nice things that, even if they don't belong to me, are causing a very nice feeling holding them in my hands:

(as always: click to Enlarge)

 

[1fsh2fsh]

roni, I've never seen a pic of the bottle of wine. what do you know about it? god I'd love to have one of those. probably the only bottle I'd be able not to open and drink.....

 

[Gerard K H Love]

White wine does not usually age well, so it may be very fine vinegar now. roni has the most distinctive nose. It's no wonder someone used him in a painting.

 

[roni]

[...] the bottle of wine. what do you know about it?

I only know what it says on the label.
I guess he had these made for the birthday-party.

This particular bottle was on the shelfes of MM.
Daisy was so nice to lend us several things of her father for our the upcoming museum we plan to build in Hanks house of birth. These were some of them.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I'm enjoying looking at these pics of collections waaaay better than mine.

a boy can dream.

 

[1fsh2fsh]

the upcoming museum we plan to build in Hanks house of birth.

Very nice. someday I hope to be able to veiw these items in person. A trip to the home country would be great. thanks roni...

 

[Bukfan]

Nice Buk wine bottle, Roni! - I hope the Buk museum comes through!

 

[roni]

... I hope the Buk museum comes through!

Yeah, this will be a fine thing.
The next time I try to get people into the project will be a public address in Andernach during our symposium in August. The owner of the house will be there as well as a representative of the city. I hope many people (esp potential sponsors) will come.

 

[Bukfan]

Best of luck with the museum plans later this month, Roni! Please keep us informed on any developments...

 

[pipelinecosby]

dirty broads

If anyone wishes to donate any BSP 1966 run broads, shoot me a mail!

Not pictured is a signed "Love Poem to Marina" and "Playing it Out"

 

[chronic]

Nice broadside collection. A Note upon a Workshop Instructor... is a real rarity.

 

[buk babe]

it does my little franco-irish-canuck heart good to see my name and bukowski's on the same wine bottle. love it!!

 

[james]

Nice broadside collection. A Note upon a Workshop Instructor... is a real rarity.

yes, very nice indeed...


and buk babe: what's your name? chardonnay? windsor?

 

[bospress.net]

pipelinecosby;
Nice broadsides! PM me and I'll send you a copy of the little Bukowski broadside that I published recently.

Bill

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Indeed, that's one of the larger collections of broadsides I've seen. I'm sure folks some here have collections like this, I just haven't seen them. That's an impressive sight.