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Author: Bukowski, Charles
Title: It Catches My Heart in its Hands: New & Selected Poems 1955-1963
Place Published: [New Orleans]
Publisher:Loujon Press
Date Published: 1963
Description: 97 pp. Introduction by John William Corrington. With preliminary leaves of various colors and differing widths. 26x18.5 cm (10x7“), hand-bound in stiff pictorial wrappers with cork-lined front cover, attached jacket with tissue sheet tipped-on (as issued), and pictorial flap over fore-edge around from rear; this copy housed in custom black cloth drop-back box with cover and spine labels. One of 777 copies on different colored and sized hand-printed paper. First Edition.Signed and inscribed by Charles Bukowski in silver ink on the front free endpaper: “In the evenings when everything cries for reason, drink a beer. Charles Bukowski, 12-14-63.“ Accompanying the inscription is a drawing of a sun and three birds. The volume is signed and inscribed a second time on a blank page at the rear: “Brave men lack imagination; the only cowards are those without any. Charles Bukowski, 4-7-63.“ Rare and desirable copy twice inscribed and with an original drawing. Bukowski‘s most beautifully produced book and the crowning achievement of Loujon Press. Dorbin A5; Krumhansl 12.

Wrappers with some rubbing to extremities; some toning at edges; very good or better.