It Catches My Heart in its Hands

New and selected poems 1955-1963

by Charles Bukowski

introduction by John William Corrington 

Limited first edition, signed by the author.  New Orleans LA:  Loujon Press, 1963  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition with a VERY GOOD dust jacket.

• Thin flexible boards have illustrated title block in dark orange ink.  Pictorial inner jacket of Japan paper.
• Outer jacket of heavy yellow paper, printed in black and red ink, is attached at spine.  Front cover has thin cork panel printed in turquoise with title block in dark orange.
• Tissue layer separating jackets shows some rumpling, a small adhesion tear at binding.  See photos.  
• Wraps show a little edgewear, some wear to corner edges and fold edges of outer wraps.  Japan paper inner wrap shows some marginal toning at returns.  See photos.  
• Spine has black text and is bright with firm ends.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps are of graduating lengths, each leaf printed on differently colored paper.
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2024.0711

98 pages. 7.25 x 10 inches

A very good plus copy of this early poetry collection by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994).  Signed, first edition, limited to 777 copies.  In original flexible boards with complicated series of jackets and wrap-arounds.  True to the Loujon Press, this present work is a complex and interesting piece of printing and binding.  Printed in multiple fonts and on a rainbow assortment of papers, as described in the colophon. 

Signed twice by Bukowski in silver paint pen.  Inside the front cover:  "For 43 years I've waited to write my name across the street from you/ Charles Bukowski/ 12-15-63," with a cartoon drawing of a bottle and glass.  At the rear, facing the colophon:  "They say Genet liked one of my poems; maybe you'll find one too, even though they've lost meaning (now) for me./  Charles Bukowski/ 4-7-63"  

Jon and Louise Webb, publishers of the literary magazine The Outsider, featured some of Bukowski's poetry.  Under the Loujon Press imprint, the Webbs published Bukowski's It Catches My Heart in Its Hands in 1963.  This book is the first in the Gypsy Lou series.

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