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Tue, Apr 26, 2022 12:00PM EDT
Lot 14

[BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920?1994)]. ?? MONTFORT, Michael, phot...

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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[BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920?1994)]. ?? MONTFORT, Michael, photographer. Bukowski: Photographs 1977?1991. With an introduction and a poem by Bukowski. [Hollywood:] Bukskin Press, 1993. Folio. 21 tipped?in photographs by Montfort. Original publisher?s printed glossy white boards, upper cover mounted with a color photograph of Bukowski; original printed slipcase (lacking Daisy Montfort?s mounted reproduction of Bukowski). Provenance: Sholom ?Red? Stodolsky (his copy), see envelope contents; Stodolsky was Bukowski?s friend and owner of the Baroque Book Store in Hollywood. LIMITED EDITION, letter ?L? of 26 lettered copies, from a total edition of 100, SIGNED BY BOTH BUKOWSKI AND MONTFORT, on colophon with THREE ADDITIONAL ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY BUKOWSKI. Krumhansl 134a. ?? [Also with:] a large mounted envelope on recto facing leaf of the limitation (as issued), consisting of: a color printed photograph of the author SIGNED AND WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING BY BUKOWSKI. ?? [And:] a prospectus INSCRIBED BY BUKOWSKI WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING: ?For Red Stodolski / My tough soul buddy? / Charles Bukowski?.