Inscribed, Bukowski to Seamus Cooney
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Author: Bukowski, Charles
Title: Longshot Poems for Broke Players - inscribed to Seamus Cooney
Place Published: New York
Publisher:7 Poets Press
Date Published: [1962]
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[44] pp. Illustrated from drawings by Bukowski; photo of Buk in the short author biography section in the back. (8vo) original illustrated tan-brown wrappers, cover printed in black, in custom brown and cream board clamshell case with paper title labels. Approximately 200 copies printed. First Edition.
Inscribed by Bukowski to fellow poet Seamus Cooney, "To Seamus Cooney -- All God's children got Bukowski. They is lucky. Charles Bukowski", along with his doodles of a man (sans bottle today), a dog, a sun, and a leafy branch. Bukowski’s rare third book, containing 26 poems and 5 drawings. Note the cover spelling is "Longshot Pomes for Broke Players," and is changed to “poems” on the title page, another example of Buk the unconventional poet spitting in the face of propriety. One of Al Fogel's top 20 Bukowski rarities. Dorbin A3; Krumhansl 8; Fogel 7.
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