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Ham on Rye - One of 100 with signed oil painting and a cassette titled "Bukowski The Early Years" and "Recorded 1970"
by Bukowski, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. Limited edition, this number 12 of 100 numbered copies signed by and with an original oil painting by Charles Bukowski signed 'Buk'. painting tipped-in with wax-paper tissue-guard between dedication and half-title. Book signed and with author's ink doodle of a man with a bottle to limitation page at rear. Original yellow cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, paper label to spine, acetate dust-jacket. Mint. This is Bukowski's most well-loved work, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story in depression-era Los Angeles. Together with a rare early recording of the author reading his own work. On a casstette tape and without copyright or publisher, the printed wrapper lists 20 works read aloud by the author. in Fine condition. Stated as recorded in 1970 Signed by Author
Synopsis
Ham on Rye is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. Written in the first person, the novel follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s thinly veiled alter ego, during his early years. Written in Bukowski’s characteristic crude, straightforward prose, the novel tells of his coming-of-age in Los Angeles during the Great Depression.
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- Bookseller
- finecopy ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 109705
- Title
- Ham on Rye - One of 100 with signed oil painting and a cassette titled "Bukowski The Early Years" and "Recorded 1970"
- Author
- Bukowski, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982
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