Your Rarest Buk Piece

planahea

planahea

RIP
Early BSP broadsides, post 1971, were printed in the 1,000s as free handouts for retail & wholesale booksellers throughout the national book trade to be used for promotional purposes. (Those same signed and numbered broadsides were primarily for friends of the press.) The broadsides were also given away at various book shows around the country. Alas, when a given sales season was over (book publishing has two sales seasons per year) the excess were thrown away. The newer season always brought new and interesting promotional give aways for new titles from publishers.

The BSP New Year's Greetings in wrappers were handled the same way, but in much reduced quantities.
The handbound limited editions were for friends of the press, and as with the broadsides were not sold to the public.
 
ROC

ROC

It is what it is
"I got a hospital braclet of Hank's from 1994"... Creepy.


'Red' signed by Buk and Red.
'Living on Luck' presentation copy - 1 of 10.
'You Kissed Lilly' colored in

almost all of the lettered (1/26) editions.

Oh and 'Heatwave' lettered and 'Horsemeat'

But my favourite is still 'It Catches' in as new with an accompanying letter.
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
ROC said:
'Red' signed by Buk and Red.
'Living on Luck' presentation copy - 1 of 10.
'You Kissed Lilly' colored in

almost all of the lettered (1/26) editions.

Oh and 'Heatwave' lettered and 'Horsemeat'

But my favourite is still 'It Catches' in as new with an accompanying letter.
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Do you still have the mis-printed Terror Street? That has to be one of the rarest items out there.
 
nymark

nymark

May I join in on this pissing contest, please?

Copy #1 of 2 by Bukowski with a full page inscription to Barbara Martin asking her when she's going to do away with John so they can be together. Below the inscription he drew a picture of Barbara pushing a spear through John's back. It protrudes from his chest and has some guts dripping off the tip.

Genius of the Crowd

The dedication copy of It Catches My Heart with a full page inscription to Gypsy Lou.

Flower Fist inscribed to Jon Webb

Signature 1
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
nymark said:
Copy #1 of 2 by Bukowski with a full page inscription to Barbara Martin asking her when she's going to do away with John so they can be together. Below the inscription he drew a picture of Barbara pushing a spear through John's back. It protrudes from his chest and has some guts dripping off the tip.
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I would love to see that.

hint hint
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

nymark said:
Copy #1 of 2 by Bukowski with a full page inscription to Barbara Martin asking her when she's going to do away with John so they can be together. Below the inscription he drew a picture of Barbara pushing a spear through John's back. It protrudes from his chest and has some guts dripping off the tip.
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Finally some light is shed on why Martin edited Buk's work the way he did. ;)
 
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Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
...followed by ROC perhaps...

(I have a nice copy of It Catches myself, but that's hardly worth mentioning)
 
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ROC

ROC

It is what it is
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james

james

i was watching that end on the ebay countdown thing, waiting for someone to come in at the last second. congrats on the win!
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
Yeah, congrats... a great deal. I was watching it too but, even at this low price I couldn't afford it right now.
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

www.bospress.net
Hey Jordan;
Congrats on that one. They are far rarer than the limitation would suggest. Many of these were sold to libraries (This was the library edition) and had their collectability ruined. I have said before that reportedly Montfort looked for one of these for well over a decade. It took me nearly that long to find one AT ANY PRICE. I am surprised that Nick did not bid on this one.

I think that it is really worth twice what you paid for it. It is a great book and rare as hell in this condition.

Best,
Bill
 
jordan

jordan

lothario speedwagon
I do have a line on another copy, although it would cost more money. If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll try to set it up.
 
jordan

jordan

lothario speedwagon
good to see you posting again, ROC. can we assume that the hardcover trade edition of burning in water is the only hardcover version not mentioned in a BSP colophon (besides unnumbered overruns, like the 1995 NYG)?

i didn't expect to win this one- i put down $225 with 5 seconds left, expecting to get beat by the first guy's proxy bid, and i was shocked that i came away with it.
 
ROC

ROC

It is what it is
Thanks a heap.
It's been 'interesting' times for me for the last few months.

I think that your assumption re unmentioned versions in colophons is fair - i.e. I really don't have a clue :rolleyes: but I think you are right.

You did really well on that one.
Congrats!
 
LickTheStar

LickTheStar

Sad Flower in the Sand
jordan said:
good to see you posting again, ROC. can we assume that the hardcover trade edition of burning in water is the only hardcover version not mentioned in a BSP colophon (besides unnumbered overruns, like the 1995 NYG)?

i didn't expect to win this one- i put down $225 with 5 seconds left, expecting to get beat by the first guy's proxy bid, and i was shocked that i came away with it.
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I love\hate those kinds of auctions. That's how I won my copy of At Terror Street. I placed a bid of exactly one penny over the asking price of $399.99 and about a week later... I won. I saved between $100 and $150 off what Abe had 'em for, so I was happy, but it was very unexpected.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
A matchbook from the wedding, imprinted (I think) "Hank & Linda Lee" or something close to that. One match left -- I used the others lighting firecrackers one Fourth of July. Not much that's rare in the book dept. - too many sold off over the years.

Oh yeah, also an original fax from Bukowski. Not many of those around. It's on that strange early fax paper, that was on a roll and torn off after it printed out.
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

www.bospress.net
Can you scan and post? This is not "My First Fax Poem"? I know that he only sent one poem in to BSP via fax, but he seems to have sent faxes to others? Please provide details.

This would have to have been very close to his death?

Bill
 
roni

roni

Rekrab said:
[...]It's on that strange early fax paper, that was on a roll and torn off after it printed out.
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you'll have to make a scan immediately!

these old fax-papers usually lost their print within weeks! so if you're lucky enough, you can still read it (avoiding sunlight may have helped), you really should do something about the preservation in form of a facsimile.
 
ROC

ROC

It is what it is
I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know, but if it's thermal paper (as most old fax paper was) and you scan it, you will ruin it.

Roni - Avoid sunlight but put it in a scanner? :eek:
 
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