Bauman Rare Books Early 2020 Online Catalogue

L I T E R A T U R E B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S • E A R L Y 2 0 2 0 O N L I N E 94 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) “Bard Of The Barroom And The Brothel” BUKOWSKI, Charles. Women. Santa Barbara, 1978. Octavo, original half blue cloth. $2500. View on Website Signed limited first edition, one of 300 copies (375 total), continuing his fictional saga of the semi-autobiographical Henry Chinaski, also featured in Factotum (1975) and Bukowski’s screenplay for the 1987 film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke. “Charles Bukowski was a bard of the barroom and the brothel, a direct descendant of the Romantic visionaries who worshiped at the altar of personal excess, violence and madness… Bukowski’s skeletal, self-referential poems and stories, barren of metaphor but crackling with hard truth told in American barroom vernacular, brought him adulation… [that] came late… Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail , his first poetry collection, was published in 1959, and over the years at least 40 more books followed, all of them rooted in the experiences of a loner and outcast with a keen eye for the absurd” ( New York Times ). Bukowski’s 1978 novel, Women , continues his fictional saga of Henry Chinaski, the semi-autobiographical protagonist found in works such as Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975) and Bukowski’s screenplay for Barfly , the 1987 film directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Mickey Rourke as Chinaski. Signed limited edition of 300 copies, issued along with a signed limited edition of 75 copies with a painting by Bukowski. Krumhansl 63d. A fine signed copy.