ALL THE ASSHOLES IN THE WORLD AND MINE - THE DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM WANTLING
$6,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books
First edition · Signed
Bensenville, IL: Open Skull Press, 1966. First Edition. A humorous, early foray into prose, chronicling in painful detail the account of the author's hemorrhoid operation and hospitalization, which kept him away from work for several months. Bukowski became familiar with Wantling through their mutual publisher, Douglas Blazek, and they began corresponding in 1965. The contents of their letters from the 60s is largely
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