COLD DOGS IN THE COURTYARD - AUTHOR'S EDITION, ONE OF 5 COPIES WITH A SIGNED POEM
Chicago: Literary Times - Cyofeth Publications, 1965. First Edition. Item #8007
One of 5 copies constituting a small "Author's Edition," each with with an original typed signed poem ("The Payoff") tipped in at center, this being copy no.2. Slim octavo (21cm); letterpress printed sheets stapled into pictorial card wrappers (offset printed); [1]-23,[24]pp. Two small holograph corrections to the typescript poem, tiny spot of erasure to upper right corner of front wrapper, else very Near Fine.
Lovely copy of this collection, featuring poems which previously appeared in the pages of little magazines like Outsider, Epos, The Naked Ear, Targets, San Francisco Review, Impetus, Sciamachy, and Quicksilver, et al. Gathered together here for the first time, with a foreword by Bukowski. "The Payoff" wasn't printed until its inclusion in the posthumously published Bone Palace Ballet (1997). Uncommon. Debritto A15; Krumhansl 16.
Price: $3,750.00