Your *strangest* Buk Piece

[anna101]

i want those mugs AND that beer bottle. where do you get shit like that?

 

[nymark]

Here's another oddity. In the 60s, Bukowski submitted a few sketches of a sparrow as a possible logo for Black Sparrow Press. Martin rejected these sketches (thank God, if you ask me). Later, Martin had two of these sketches made into wood block stamps that could be used in a letterpress. The stamp on the right was used as the Burn Again Press logo in CORNERED and RED. I'm not sure where the stamp on the left was used. Anyone know? James, that's your Avitar. Where'd you see it? Perhaps I should have posted this in the Burn Again Press thread? The second pic the colophon of RED.

 

[mjp]

I can hear Bill salivating over those blocks all the way from California.

I've never seen the one on the left anywhere but James' avatar either. That I recall. But then all the birds kind of look alike after a while.

But Barbara Martin's bird was definitely a better colophon image (or device, if you want to get all technical).

 

[james]

nymark, i can't figure out where i got the sparrow drawing from. at first i thought i scanned it from one of the "new censorship" magazines, but nope. then i thought ROC posted it in the burn again press thread but it's not from there either.
but those stamps are freakin' awesome!

 

[HarryC13]

Totally agree, they are awesome! What a find.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Here's another strange bird:

 

[Rekrab]

You were close. Here's the thread that you are looking for:
Your Rarest Buk Piece

Thanks, guys. That's so close in theme to the other thread, no wonder I confused them. I've been busy the past week, just now getting back here, but I'll follow up later on whatever I was going to do. Oh yeah, post a scan of the fax. That's it.