"FIRST THERE WAS TROUBLE WITH THE FRENCH EDITOR": BUKOWSKI'S SHAKESPEARE NEVER DID THIS, 1995 EXPANDED BLACK SPARROW PRESS EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 326 SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER MICHAEL MONTFORT, WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF BUKOWSKI LAID IN
BUKOWSKI, Charles; MONTFORT, Michael. Shakespeare Never Did This. Photographs by Michael Montfort. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Oblong quarto, original half dark red cloth, printed paper spine label, pictorial boards, original acetate dust wrapper.
Signed limited expanded second edition—the first Black Sparrow Press edition, expanded with the inclusion of 11 new poems—number 13 of only 326 numbered copies signed by the photographer and with an original photographic print of Bukowski by Montfort laid in.
Bukowski's prose narrates his 1978 trip to Europe undertaken at the request of publishers and editors there, and includes 75 pages of Montfort's black-and-white photographs. "The novels sold fairly well in the United States but were far more popular in Europe. Carl Weissner, an editor based in Heidelberg, Germany, helped to win Bukowski a European audience, translating some of Bukowski’s work himself. Bukowski acknowledged his German and French readers by visiting both countries in 1978 and giving a reading in Hamburg" (ANB). This posthumous edition reprints the text and photographs from the 1979 City Lights edition, with the addition of 11 new poems related to that trip. Issued simultaneously with paperback and hardcover trade issues. The laid-in print measures 9 by 7 inches. Krumhansl 143c.
Fine condition.