Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
BUKOWSKI, Charles; Gail CHIARRELLO [Ed.]
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
California: City Lights Books, 1972
8vo., paperback glued card covers, the front showing a black and white photograph of Bukowski taken by Brad Darby; pp. [viii], 478, [ii]; near-fine, a touch rubbed to the outer edges of covers and along spine; with the odd crease; glue just starting to show at front gutter; internally clean.
Sixth printing, doodled in black ink by Bukowski with a rough depiction of his "little man" drawing to the front free endpaper below an insightful ‘Fuck it!’
A collection of pieces originally published in Open City, Nola Express, Knight, Adam, Adam Reader, Pix, The Berkeley Barb and Ever-green Review. The book is dedicated to Linda King “who brought it to me and who will take it away”. King was Bukowski’s girlfriend in the early 1970s, and it was a relationship which often turned volatile. On one occasion, the pair stayed at the City Lights apartment in San Francisco, after reading at the City Lights Poets Theater. The pair split in 1975 after King, angry at Bukowski’s frequent infidelities, threw his typewriter out of an open window.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of the City Lights Bookstore, was one of the first to recognise Bukowski as a short story writer and this collection, published by his press, was the first collection of Bukowski’s stories to be published together. The book later appeared in two volumes, Tales of Ordinary Madness and The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983).
BUKOWSKI, Charles; Gail CHIARRELLO [Ed.]
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
California: City Lights Books, 1972
8vo., paperback glued card covers, the front showing a black and white photograph of Bukowski taken by Brad Darby; pp. [viii], 478, [ii]; near-fine, a touch rubbed to the outer edges of covers and along spine; with the odd crease; glue just starting to show at front gutter; internally clean.
Sixth printing, doodled in black ink by Bukowski with a rough depiction of his "little man" drawing to the front free endpaper below an insightful ‘Fuck it!’
A collection of pieces originally published in Open City, Nola Express, Knight, Adam, Adam Reader, Pix, The Berkeley Barb and Ever-green Review. The book is dedicated to Linda King “who brought it to me and who will take it away”. King was Bukowski’s girlfriend in the early 1970s, and it was a relationship which often turned volatile. On one occasion, the pair stayed at the City Lights apartment in San Francisco, after reading at the City Lights Poets Theater. The pair split in 1975 after King, angry at Bukowski’s frequent infidelities, threw his typewriter out of an open window.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of the City Lights Bookstore, was one of the first to recognise Bukowski as a short story writer and this collection, published by his press, was the first collection of Bukowski’s stories to be published together. The book later appeared in two volumes, Tales of Ordinary Madness and The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983).
BUKOWSKI, Charles; Gail CHIARRELLO [Ed.]
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
California: City Lights Books, 1972
8vo., paperback glued card covers, the front showing a black and white photograph of Bukowski taken by Brad Darby; pp. [viii], 478, [ii]; near-fine, a touch rubbed to the outer edges of covers and along spine; with the odd crease; glue just starting to show at front gutter; internally clean.
Sixth printing, doodled in black ink by Bukowski with a rough depiction of his "little man" drawing to the front free endpaper below an insightful ‘Fuck it!’
A collection of pieces originally published in Open City, Nola Express, Knight, Adam, Adam Reader, Pix, The Berkeley Barb and Ever-green Review. The book is dedicated to Linda King “who brought it to me and who will take it away”. King was Bukowski’s girlfriend in the early 1970s, and it was a relationship which often turned volatile. On one occasion, the pair stayed at the City Lights apartment in San Francisco, after reading at the City Lights Poets Theater. The pair split in 1975 after King, angry at Bukowski’s frequent infidelities, threw his typewriter out of an open window.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of the City Lights Bookstore, was one of the first to recognise Bukowski as a short story writer and this collection, published by his press, was the first collection of Bukowski’s stories to be published together. The book later appeared in two volumes, Tales of Ordinary Madness and The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983).