Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame [Limited Edition, Signed]
by BUKOWSKI, Charles
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.282. Octavo (23.75cm); printed paper-covered boards and coarse royal blue cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [ii],[xiv],15-232,[10]pp. Faint, tiny stain to lower right margin of p.[v], else Fine in a lightly rubbed dustjacket. A substantial selection of Bukowski's best work from the late 1950s-early 1970s. Many of these poems first appeared in It Catches My Heart in Its Hands, Crucifix in a Deathhand, and At Terror Street and Agony Way. Krumhansl 46c.
Synopsis
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81139
- Title
- Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame [Limited Edition, Signed]
- Author
- BUKOWSKI, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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