"HOW HE TALKED ME INTO BEING SHOT, I ALSO HAVE NO RECALL": SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF PHOTOGRAPHER MICHAEL MONTFORT'S BUKOWSKI 24 PHOTOGRAPHS, THE "PHOTOGRAPHERS COPY"—ONE OF ONLY 26 COPIES SIGNED BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI

(BUKOWSKI, Charles) MONTFORT, Michael. Bukowski. 24 Photographs 1977-1987. With an Introduction and Poem by Charles Bukowski. (Santa Barbara, CA: Graham Mackintosh, 1987). Quarto, original half gray cloth, laminated photographic boards. $2500.

Signed limited edition, signed by Charles Bukowski, this is photographer Michael Montfort's unlettered "Photographers Copy," with Bukowski's preface and poem, "Click, Click…," containing black-and-white photographic plate and 24 photographic plates of Bukowski taken from 1977-1987.

"Charles Bukowski was a bard of the barroom and the brothel, a direct descendant of the Romantic visionaries who worshiped at the altar of personal excess, violence and madness… Bukowski's skeletal, self-referential poems and stories, barren of metaphor but crackling with hard truth told in American barroom vernacular, brought him adulation… [that] came late… Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail, his first poetry collection, was published in 1959, and over the years at least 40 more books followed, all of them rooted in the experiences of a loner and outcast with a keen eye for the absurd" (New York Times). Images include shots of Bukowski at the racing track, in Germany and on the set of Barfly, the 1987 movie he wrote the screenplay for.

Fine condition.