Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip in Story Magazine March-April 1944

by Charles Bukowski, Whit Burnett

$1,750 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

New York: Story Press, 1944. Vol. XXIV, No. 106. 104 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine with tiny staple hole in front wrap, a few spots of wear along spine and gutter but generally very bright an clean. An excellent copy of the hard-drinking American poet and novelist's first trade publication, probably following a 1940 literary magazine called Write, of which no known copies exist. He was 24 at the time.

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