It Catches My Heart In Its Hands: New and Selected Poems 1955-1963 by Bukowski, Charles - 1963

New Orleans.: Loujon Press., 1963. Limited edition, 777 copies.. Leaves of various colors bound in white printed stiff wraps.. Good plus in the stiff dust jacket, some smoke damage to the edges and margins. . 26x18.5 cm.. Signed by the author in silver ink on the front endpaper. weight: 0.9 lb. Introduction by John William Corrington.

New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [4], 98, [4] pp. Signed, first edition, limited to 777 copies. In original flexible boards with complicated series of jackets and wrap-arounds. Light rubbing to the extremities, contents clean. Generally, a very good+ copy, signed and dated by Bukowski in silver ink, "5/25/1963." This is the first in the Gypsy Lou series #1. True to the Loujon Press, this present work is a complicated and interesting piece of printing and binding. In flexible boards with pictorial jacket around which is an additional outer yellow, pictorial jacket with wrap-around—patterned Japanese paper separates the inner and outer jackets at the front panel. Mounted to the front of this is printed, orange cork to the front and rear panel and wrap-around flap are printed in black and purple. The preliminaries are of a graduating length, each leaf printed on differently colored paper. This copy comports with what Dorbin identifies as state 1 of the… Read More

New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. About Fine. First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 2-18-64. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. About Fine, with touches of wear at the extremities and light bumping to corners. An early Bukowski publication, lovingly produced by Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb at their Loujon Press.

New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Wraps. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Decorated wraps with wraparound dust jacket. Original $5 price on rear panel. Multi layered and coloured interior terraced printing. Edition limited to 777 copies only, signed and dated by the author in silver ink on front ednpaper. In this case 8-3-63. A very sharp copy with no obvious faults except a little edgewear. .

New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 5-25-63. [vi], 99, [2] pp. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. Fine. A truly excellent, crisp copy with hardly any wear. Gift card of Philip Boatwright, editor of Steppenwolf, laid in. An early Bukowski poetry collection, lovingly produced by Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb at their Loujon Press.