87 GIFTS Signed Limited Charles Bukowski First Edition With An Original Painting By Him 118BUKOWSKI, Charles. Hot Water Music. Santa Barbara, 1983. Octavo, original striped cloth spine, original multicolored boards. $4800 First edition, one of 126 copies signed by Bukowski, with an original signed acrylic painting by him. Bukowski “stands at the centre of a group of Los Angeles-based writers who glorify a gritty street life” and he “represents the antithesis of the academic poet” (Hamilton, 75). This collection of short stories includes “Scream When You Burn,” “Scum Grief,” “It’s A Dirty World,” and “How to Get Published.” On a full preliminary leaf there is a frenetic abstract work in thickly applied acrylics, signed “BUK” in the corner. Also signed by him on the limitation page. Additionally issued in a trade edition and a signed, limited edition (without artwork) of 400 copies. Krumhansl 80e. Fine condition. “Astonishing, Enlightening… Explosively Funny” 119WOLFE, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York, 1968. Octavo, original white cloth, dust jacket. $950 First edition of Wolfe’s lively “celebration of psychedelia,” a handsome copy in the colorful Milton Glaser dust jacket. “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test… is to the hippie movement what Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night was to the Vietnam protest movement. Wolfe is precisely the right author to chronicle the transformation of Ken Kesey from respected author of And One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to an LSD enthusiast, to the messianic leader of a mystical band of Merry Pranksters, to a fugitive from the FBI, California police and Mexican Federales. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a celebration of psychedelia, of all its sounds and costumes, colors and fantasies… It is an astonishing, enlightening, at times baffling and explosively funny book” (New York Times). Book with slight discoloration to edges, vibrant dust jacket with minor rubbing to extremities and tiny closed tear at spine head. A bright, near-fine copy.
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