POST OFFICE: A NOVEL - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Item #8556
First Printing, cloth issue, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.86. Octavo (24cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and American flag-patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-115,[5]pp. A fresh, Fine copy, with the backstrip notably unfaded; dustjacket is lightly rubbed, else Near Fine. Housed in a custom clamshell case by Bill Roberts.
Bukowski's first novel, an autobiographical work based on his years spent as a postal clerk and mail carrier in Los Angeles. He left his job there when publisher John Martin offered him $100 a week for life if he wrote for his fledgling Black Sparrow Press. A cornerstone title for any serious Bukowski collection. Krumhansl 38b.
Price: $5,500.00