Charles Bukowski. 
 
Loujoun Press: 1963. First printing. Cork boards with flaps. Large, square octavo. Wear along the top and bottom of the boards. Small stain on the margins of page 90. 97 pages. Very good. Signed and dated by Bukowksi with metallic permanent marker.
 
Includes a darkly humored and handwritten letter in blue ink sent by Bukowksi to editors, designers, and printers Jon and Louise Webb. Above the return address on the envelope, also written in blue ink, Bukoski wrote only "Buk." Bukowski's second published poetry collection.
 
"I have a typewriter and now 
my typewriter no longer has 
anything to say. 
 
I will drink until morning 
finds me in bed with the 
biggest whore of them all:
myself."