YOU KISSED LILLY - HEAVILY-CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT SIGNED TOGETHER WITH A COPY OF THE DELUXE ISSUE
$12,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books
First edition
Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977-1978. First Edition. Complete typescript for this humorous, violent short story of middle-aged marital discord, set in a small town in Illinois. The preliminary leaf and running head notably print Bukowski's original title for this story – The Split – which he has crossed out on p.1 and re-titled You Kissed Lilly. This draft, written five months before the
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