{"title":"Open City — Charles Bukowski's Notes of a Dirty Old Man","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"\u003eBefore most people had heard of Charles Bukowski, Open City had already made him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"\u003ePublished out of Los Angeles by John Bryan between 1967 and 1969, Open City was a weekly underground tabloid that gave Bukowski something the poetry magazines never could — a mass audience, a regular paycheck, and complete creative freedom. His column \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man\" ran in close to 90 issues, reaching readers who would never have picked up a poetry magazine. It's fair to say this was the moment Bukowski was finally discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"\u003eHe could write whatever he wanted. It would be published days later. And he got $10 a column.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"\u003eThe column would eventually become one of his most enduring books — first published by Essex House in 1969, then by City Lights, where it remains in print today. But the original source material appeared here first, in these pages, in a tabloid newspaper that few people knew existed and even fewer preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"\u003eThese copies belonged to John Bryan Sr. — the editor's father, himself a newspaper man — mailed to him directly as they were published. They are among the few surviving copies of a paper that was never meant to last.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWant to know more? Read our article: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thebukshop.com\/blogs\/news\/55-years-on-charles-bukowski-s-notes-of-a-dirty-old-man-ages-well\"\u003e55 Years On, Charles Bukowski's 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man' Ages Well.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrowse everything below — and read the descriptions. Each one has a story.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-picture-book-for-marina-bukowski-signed-by-charles-bukowski","title":"OPEN CITY: Renaissance, A Magazine of the Arts #1, A Picture Book for Marina Bukowski: Signed by Charles Bukowski","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is one of my Top 5 Bukowski favorites. It’s sentimental, clever, and I’m a sucker for Bukowski drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy is signed by Bukowski with a period signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIt was published on the front and rear covers of the May 1968 issue of Renaissance, A Magazine of the Arts #1. Renaissance was a literary supplement in Open City, the Los Angeles weekly where Bukowski’s Notes of a Dirty Old Man columns were first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIt was created for Marina Bukowski, Bukowski’s only child. She would have been almost four years old at this point, but according to Bukowski scholar Abel Debritto in his book “Every Piece of the Puzzle”, Bukowski created the picture book in January 1966, when she was less than a year and a half.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe picture book features 11 Bukowski illustrations with satirical captions, most likely aimed for a future edition of Marina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eConsidering it’s a 57-year-old newspaper, I think I can fairly grade this Near Fine. It has a bit of foxing and the original fold, but it’s really in great shape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Very rare item as the years go by, especially in this condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45968160719013,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/1000018127-Copy.jpg?v=1760230589"},{"product_id":"renaissance-a-magazine-of-the-arts-2-bukowski-as-editor-gets-open-city-shut-down","title":"OPEN CITY: Renaissance, A Magazine of the Arts #2: Bukowski as Editor Gets Open City Shut Down","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is a fairly important piece of history regarding censorship in America during the late 1960s. It’s also a tale of what-not-to-do when being an editor during such times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePublished on September 26, 1968, Renaissance, A Magazine of the Arts #2 was a literary supplement in Open City, the Los Angeles weekly where Charles Bukowski’s Notes of a Dirty Old Man columns were first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOpen City publisher John Bryan asked Bukowski to be the guest editor for this second installment of the supplement. Despite knowing what would most likely happen, Bukowski decided to print Jack Micheline’s short story “Skinny Dynamite”. Micheline describes Skinny as a “white jew with a black soul” who begins giving blow jobs at 10 and having sex at 11. Skinny prefers “spades and Puerto Ricans” and the story climaxes with a gang bang at a Puerto Rican gang house that begins with a “Chinaman” performing anal sex on Skinny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAfter publication, John Bryan was charged with obscenity and the resulting legal costs would subsequently force Open City to go bankrupt. Bukowski denied any responsibility and refused to take part in subsequent fund raisers by other poets and musicians. As Bryan would later recall, “Bukowski played the editor and I went to jail”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBukowski’s contribution to the issue is called “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”. It is also erotic, but in Bukowski’s own cynical style. Micheline used “fuck” several times in his piece, while Bukowski used phrases like “orgy butter” and “cunty trick”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOther contributors include willie, d.a. levy, Gerda Penfold, Steve Richmond, Diane Di Prima and Joel Deutsch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFor a nearly 60-year-old newspaper printed on cheap paper, this copy is in fairly good shape. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThere are small tears along the edges and a bit of browning here and there, most notably at the folds. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThere is one-inch tear at the bottom of the first page and it seems like it was in a damp environment for a bit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCrate 2\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45986966700197,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/1000017949-Copy.jpg?v=1760894303"},{"product_id":"renaissance-a-magazine-of-the-arts-2-signed-by-charles-bukowski-and-jack-micheline","title":"Renaissance, A Magazine of the Arts #2: Signed by Charles Bukowski and Jack Micheline","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is a fairly important piece of history regarding censorship in America during the late 1960s. What makes this copy very special is that it is signed on the masthead by both Charles Bukowski and Jack Micheline, the men behind the demise of Open City as a result of this issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePublished on September 26, 1968, Renaissance, A Magazine of the Arts #2 was a literary supplement in Open City, the Los Angeles weekly where Charles Bukowski’s Notes of a Dirty Old Man columns were first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOpen City publisher John Bryan asked Bukowski to be the guest editor for this second installment of the supplement. Despite knowing what would most likely happen, Bukowski decided to print Jack Micheline’s short story “Skinny Dynamite”. Micheline describes Skinny as a “white jew with a black soul” who begins giving blow jobs at 10 and having sex at 11. Skinny prefers “spades and Puerto Ricans” and the story climaxes with a gang bang at a Puerto Rican gang house that begins with a “Chinaman” performing anal sex on Skinny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAfter publication, John Bryan was charged with obscenity and the resulting legal costs would subsequently force Open City to go bankrupt. Bukowski denied any responsibility and refused to take part in subsequent fund raisers by other poets and musicians. As Bryan would later recall, “Bukowski played the editor and I went to jail”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBukowski’s contribution to the issue is called “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”. It is also erotic, but in Bukowski’s own cynical style. Micheline used “fuck” several times in his piece, while Bukowski used phrases like “orgy butter” and “cunty trick”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOther contributors include willie, d.a. levy, Gerda Penfold, Steve Richmond, Diane Di Prima and Joel Deutsch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy is intact, but is also fragile. There are small tears along the folds of the first sheet (front and back) and a 1-inch tear on the horizontal fold on all sheets. There are small tears and folds along the edges, mainly the lower edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSigned by both Bukowski and Micheline, this one should probably be in a university archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCrate 2\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45994686087333,"sku":null,"price":325.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/1000018306_1_-Copy.jpg?v=1761162569"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-3-may-19-25-1967-bukowski-at-the-races-grateful-dead-captain-beefheart-ucla-free-speech-riot","title":"OPEN CITY No. 03, May 19–25, 1967 — Bukowski at the Races, Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart, UCLA Free Speech Riot","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring just the third appearance of Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man\" — here still credited under his full name rather than the later stylized byline. The column is a full-page treatise on horse racing: Bukowski breaks down the mathematics of the 15% track take, the psychology of overlays and underlays, and the manipulation of crowds through fear and tight money. He offers a practical betting strategy, closing with a meditation on money as the most serious force in American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with an investigation into a staged right-wing flag-burning brawl on the UCLA campus, orchestrated to discredit the free speech movement. An interior notice previews the upcoming Griffith Park Love-In featuring the Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Iron Butterfly, and Barry McGuire. The back cover calendar includes Ravi Shankar at the Music Center and a Bogart Film Festival. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr. at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy is in great condition. There is a small tear on the left side of the horizontal fold and some light browning on the page edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47866934427813,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_090523_-_Copy.jpg?v=1780169978"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-6-june-9-16-1967-bukowski-on-poetry-and-the-underground-phil-ochs-frank-sinatra-simon-garfunkel","title":"OPEN CITY No. 06, June 9–16, 1967 — Bukowski on Poetry and the Underground, Phil Ochs, Frank Sinatra, Simon \u0026 Garfunkel","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" Opening with a domestic scene, the column pivots into a defense of the underground poetry world Bukowski inhabited — naming Steve Richmond, his close Los Angeles associate and fellow \"Meat School\" poet; Doug Blazek, editor of Olé magazine and one of the key figures of the Mimeo Revolution who published Bukowski from the outset; Al Purdy, the working-class Canadian poet who wrote in the rhythms of vernacular speech; Brown Miller, a fellow small press figure; and Harold Norse, the Beat-adjacent literary renegade who had lived with Burroughs and Ginsberg in Paris and later settled in Venice, California. Far from attacking the establishment, Bukowski is defending his own people against the academic poetry machine and its well-funded mediocrity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with John Bryan's allegorical account of the California Community Alert Patrol and the conditions building toward a second Watts uprising. The back cover calendar includes Frank Sinatra at UCLA Royce Hall, Simon and Garfunkel at the Lighthouse, and Hugh Masekela. The mailing label on the back cover carries the personal note \"Love you. Hope to see you soon.\" Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Pink mailing label on back cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., Financial Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work, with a handwritten personal note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy is in rough shape with chips and splits to the spine, some brown spots on the horizontal fold, an uneven fold resulting in the pages sticking out on the right and bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47866971127973,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_143522-Copy.jpg?v=1780171182"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-7-june-16-22-1967-bukowski-either-or-bookstore-bukowski-books-ad-monterey-pop-festival-tim-buckley-andy-warhol-phil-ochs","title":"OPEN CITY No. 07, June 16–22, 1967 — Bukowski, Either\/Or Bookstore Bukowski Books Ad, Monterey Pop Festival, Tim Buckley, Andy Warhol, Phil Ochs","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e (June 16–22), featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column is structured as a letters page — Bukowski fielding reader mail with dry, deflecting wit. Martha K. asks why all the typos appear in his column specifically; he blames rancorous old drunks on the staff who hit him over the head with empty wine bottles at the conclusion of staff meetings. Tilla A. doubts a great poet works at a post office; he says he has more trouble with supervisors than editors. One reader asks why, knowing so much about horses, he isn't rich; Karl L. can't read his handwriting — he was born left-handed, his parents bent his slop spoon, and riches aren't everything especially after you've gotten away from parents like that. Marty I. raises the X-factor vs. Y-factor and Beethoven; Bukowski says keep holding that bag of shit, he has more fan letters to answer. A widow of 39 worries about the hippie invasion of Los Angeles and six young men arriving at her door spouting Dylan Thomas; he advises Mrs. Clark J. to keep a little blue ointment on hand for crabs. A reader asks about his column on suicide and the photo of the man hanging from the homemade noose in the attic — is he dead or is that you peeing, and why are the creases in his pants so neat? The column closes the letters and turns to a longer reflection on hardness everywhere, the mind and spirit going mad with sorrow, the average man stuffed with junk and garbage during his leisure — and Bukowski writing on a dark Sunday wishing he could make someone laugh, the dirty old man dropping a pale blue tear, a button that reads AGONY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with advance coverage of what would become one of the largest Vietnam War protests in Los Angeles history, with 35,000 demonstrators expected to confront President Johnson at the Century Plaza Hotel. Also featured are reports on Andy Warhol and folk singer Phil Ochs. Interior includes a remarkable advertisement for the Either\/Or Bookstore in Hermosa Beach listing signed limited editions of Bukowski's Crucifix in a Deathland and Cold Dogs in the Courtyard. The back cover calendar listings include Monterey Pop Festival acts: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Electric Flag, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, Simon and Garfunkel, and Mamas and the Papas. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Pink mailing label on back cover addressed to John Bryan Sr. at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy is in good shape with a small tear on the left of the horizontal fold, a slightly uneven fold, some browning on the page edges, and tiny tears on the page edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47866982400165,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_144521_-_Copy.jpg?v=1780171918"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-8-june-23-29-1967-bukowski-notes-and-poem-monterey-pop-festival-angry-arts-poetry-supplement","title":"OPEN CITY No. 08, June 23–29, 1967 — Bukowski Notes and Poem, Monterey Pop Festival, Angry Arts Poetry Supplement","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man\" — Bukowski is also listed on the masthead as a Contributing Editor. The column content is not fully legible from the available photographs due to image quality; a synopsis will be added at the final compile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA centerfold poetry supplement, \"Poets of the Angry Arts,\" features work by Bukowski alongside John Haag, Austin Black, Stanley Kurnick — a poet Bukowski famously lampooned in his writing, notably included here — Josephine Ain, Ginger Osborn, Paul J. Sailer, Jack Hirschman, Kenneth Patchen, Samuel A. Eisenstein, and John Thomson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover features a bold caricature of President Johnson. Interior includes a two-page photo spread on the Monterey Pop Festival with on-the-ground dispatches and photographs. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Pink mailing label on back cover addressed to John Bryan Sr. at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy has an uneven fold, resulting in tears to the bottom part of the pages. There is about a one inch tear on the right side of the fold and a tiny tear on the right. And very little browning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47866998620325,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_145008-Copy.jpg?v=1780172576"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-9-june-30-july-6-1967-bukowski-buffy-sainte-marie-derek-taylor-on-monterey-pop-century-city-riot","title":"OPEN CITY No. 09, June 30–July 6, 1967 — Bukowski Notes, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Derek Taylor on Monterey Pop, Century City Riot","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e (June 30–July 6), featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens with two Bukowski epigrams about dirty kitchens and men, then moves into a meditation on the kitchen as a mirror of the mind — confused men have cluttered kitchens, women's dirtiness inversely proportional to how much they care for you. Coming home late from a poetry workshop, his arm nearly useless from pain after nearly crashing into a parked car trying to stick one finger out the window, he makes it home to find a woman in his bed eating chocolates and reading the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. She is worried about Benny Adimson, who writes funny anti-Catholic stories, has never been published except once in a Canadian magazine, lost his delivery truck job, and can't write unless he has a job. Bukowski barely listens, fills the tub only half full so he won't drown, drags himself to the kitchen for water, the sink stopped up and stinking, then lies still as a frozen dumb stupid fucking fish. The right column introduces Miriam, ten years old, in tight silver toreador pants and a transparent blouse, hustling on the boulevard alongside boys and girls working the street — Bukowski assigned to write the hustler story, meeting Jim and Miriam, watching Miriam's scripture-turning smile. He closes hoping Benny Adimson finds a job, and that meanwhile Bukowski will write about himself and drink too much — but you know that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with coverage of the Century City anti-war demonstration, documented in a striking two-page photographic collage of the June 23 protest confrontation with police and President Johnson's motorcade. Also featured is a firsthand account of the Monterey Pop Festival by Derek Taylor, press officer for the Beatles. An additional feature reports on Hollywood Boulevard street hustlers. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Pink mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr. at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis one has a very uneven fold, resulting in pages sticking out on the right and bottom, resulting in small tears to the page edges. Small tears on the left and right horizontal folds. Some light browning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47867014774949,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_150054-Copy.jpg?v=1780173331"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-13-july-28-aug-3-1967-bukowski-notes-detroit-riots-nina-simone-simon-garfunkel-paul-butterfield-blues-band","title":"OPEN CITY No. 13, July 28–Aug. 3, 1967 — Bukowski Notes, Detroit Riots, Nina Simone, Simon \u0026 Garfunkel, Paul Butterfield Blues Band","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens with young people reading his poems aloud at a party, then follows a predawn Hollywood Boulevard encounter with a woman in pink panties and dark stockings, through a night of drinking and a jealous older man named Frank, ending with Bukowski waking in a strange bed with $7 still in his pocket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with exclusive on-the-ground reporting from the Detroit riots, arguing the uprising was an inevitable response to systemic racism. Also featured is a detailed account of the LAPD's crackdown on Griffith Park Love-In attendees. The back cover listings include Nina Simone, Dick Gregory and Wes Montgomery at the Shrine Auditorium, and Simon and Garfunkel at the Hollywood Bowl. An insert from John Wilcock's Other Scenes includes an illustrated guide to marijuana paraphernalia. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label addressed to John Bryan Sr. at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy has splits down the spine and small tears to the page edges. Some light browning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47867066122405,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_153355-Copy.jpg?v=1780177147"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-15-aug-10-16-1967-bukowski-notes-hiroshima-day-march-dr-linus-pauling-how-to-beat-the-draft","title":"OPEN CITY No. 15, Aug. 10–16, 1967 — Bukowski Notes, Hiroshima Day March, Dr. Linus Pauling, How to Beat the Draft","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" It’s a long column opening with a meditation on writers versus natural men, the column plunges into a wine-soaked skid row hotel night with Jane (Cooney) and her friend Mick, a parolee, that ends in a harrowing midnight journey through a hospital ward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover and a two-page interior spread document the Hiroshima Day peace march through Los Angeles, with Dr. Linus Pauling speaking at Lafayette Park and photographs of counter-protesters meeting marchers with violence. A full-page legal guide by attorney William Smith explains how to legally avoid the draft. An interior page carries a striking anti-war photocollage by Phil Proctor. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label addressed to John Bryan Sr. at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his place of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy is in pretty good shape with a slightly uneven fold that makes the pages stick out a bit at the right and bottom. Some browning to the page edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47872122650789,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_174157-Copy.jpg?v=1780328062"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-18-aug-31-sept-7-1967-no-bukowski-column-liza-williams-debut-column-the-byrds-taj-mahal-donovan","title":"OPEN CITY No. 18, Aug. 31–Sept. 7, 1967 — NO BUKOWSKI COLUMN. Liza Williams' Debut Column, The Byrds, Taj Mahal, Donovan","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis issue does not contain a Bukowski \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man\" column. It is notable as the debut of Liza Williams' column, here introduced with a full page and byline illustration. 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Small stain on rear cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47872154960037,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_175359_41fed945-5c17-4d13-a6be-03a93cd00cce.jpg?v=1780329615"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-20-sept-14-20-1967-bukowski-on-the-pot-scene-george-harrison-interviewed-by-derek-taylor-steven-richmond","title":"OPEN CITY No. 20, Sept. 14–20, 1967 — Bukowski on the Pot Scene, George Harrison Interviewed by Derek Taylor, Steven Richmond","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" Drinking wine alone at a party full of hip young men performing their counterculture credentials, Bukowski launches a sharp, sustained critique of marijuana culture, arguing that the pot scene has simply swapped one variety of conformist for another. The column closes with a request for a plain Bull Durham cigarette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDesignated the \"First National Edition,\" this issue is devoted largely to marijuana and drug culture, with cover photographs of marijuana preparation, a history of cannabis in America, and Alex Apostolides' feature debunking establishment lies about pot. The centerpiece is a full-page interview with George Harrison conducted by Derek Taylor, in which Harrison speaks candidly about marijuana, LSD, the Beatles' material wealth, and his belief in an approaching revolution. The back cover carries a full-page pen and ink illustration by John Thompson alongside a poem by Steven Richmond, a poet and long-time associate of Bukowski. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. 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There is browning along spine and page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47872169705637,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_181136_bfa7eeb4-45e3-4301-bdcc-b37df1f4550f.jpg?v=1780330150"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-29-nov-17-23-1967-bukowski-on-barbara-frye-canned-heat-ramblin-jack-elliott-tim-buckley-end-of-the-love-in-era","title":"OPEN CITY No. 29, Nov. 17–23, 1967 — Bukowski on Barbara Frye, Canned Heat, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tim Buckley, End of the Love-In Era","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" A letter from Barbara, a Texas poet and publisher who claims his poems saved her, leads Bukowski into a drunken fantasy of marriage, a bus trip to Las Vegas and back, and finally the woman herself — not what he imagined. He moves in anyway. The column is a lightly fictionalized account of his courtship and marriage to Barbara Frye, his first wife and editor of Harlequin magazine. It ends in an art class where Bukowski sits brushless among the students, just watching, until the professor quietly asks him to leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover and interior feature a post-mortem on the Los Angeles Love-In era by Paul Williams of Crawdaddy Magazine, with photographs of the final Griffith Park gatherings and an interview with organizer Cleo Knight. An exclusive interview with Canned Heat documents police harassment of the band on their recent national tour. A two-page feature profiles Ramblin' Jack Elliott. The back cover listings include Judy Collins, Donovan, and Rod McKuen. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on back cover addressed to John E. 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Meggy's letters arrive in waves: her plants are dying, her friend Lana teaches poetry at the insane asylum, she saw his last poem in \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Stardust Jack-Off\u003c\/i\u003e, he is the world's greatest living writer, the children are coming home soon. Between her letters come a National Endowment for the Arts rejection, a hotel-room letter from a broken drifter named M. with rheumy legs and 51 aces turned up blank, and a note from someone signing off as Lawrence of Arabia. Bukowski reflects on being cruel to the cruel, stupid to the stupid — the only thing left when nothing can be done. On page 12, Meggy resurfaces having been accepted by \u003ci\u003eEvergreen\u003c\/i\u003e, still holding his first collection \u003ci\u003eChrist Creeps Backwards\u003c\/i\u003e, her husband joking that bongo hasn't written in a long time. Bukowski empties the beer bottle, walks to the window over the usual dark sterile senseless Los Angeles day, thinks about flying up to her door drunk in rags with buttons reading IMPEACH JOHNSON and STOP THE WAR, decides nothing will work, sits back down. The column closes with Meggy's final letter — blah blah blah, watered the pots, the children are coming home soon — and Bukowski asking whether this ever happened to Balzac or Shakespeare or Cervantes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with an editorial by publisher John Bryan on racial segregation in South Los Angeles. Interior pages include advertisements featuring Phil Ochs and Big Brother and the Holding Company. The back cover features \"Liza: the City,\" a column by Liza Williams — who would later become an on-and-off companion to Bukowski — alongside the weekly event listings, which include Tim Buckley at the Troubadour and Joan Baez at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with an editorial by publisher John Bryan on racial segregation in South Los Angeles. Interior pages include advertisements featuring Phil Ochs and Big Brother and the Holding Company. The back cover features \"Liza: the City,\" a column by Liza Williams — who would later become an on-and-off companion to Bukowski — alongside the weekly event listings, which include Tim Buckley at the Troubadour and Joan Baez at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy has a pretty even fold, but there are some edges sticking out on the bottom. 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The column careers through an alley fight, a wine-fueled seduction, and a moonlit vacant lot, closing with Bukowski fleeing toward Alvarado Street and reaching for a wallet that is no longer there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA special \"Rock and Rule\" issue, with a two-page feature on the Mothers of Invention by John Bryan and Frank Kofsky, with photographs by Ray Leong. The front cover documents the December 17 napalm protest march in Torrance against Dow Chemical, met by counter-protesters carrying signs reading \"Spade Hippies\" and \"Better Dead Than Red.\" A full-page Liza Williams column with photographs by Sharon Ackerman offers a portrait of the downtown Grand Central Market. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. 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In better shape that the photo looks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47882308649125,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/unnamed_fd6cbfad-613c-46d7-973d-203c02cf43e1.jpg?v=1780506935"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-40-feb-2-8-1968-bukowski-on-the-bomb-and-the-pueblo-crisis-the-beard-bust-electric-flag","title":"OPEN CITY No. 40, Feb. 2–8, 1968 — Bukowski on the Bomb and the Pueblo Crisis, The Beard Bust, Electric Flag","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" Prompted by a reader's letter asking why he never writes about politics, the column ranges across H-bombs falling off US aircraft, the seizure of the USS Pueblo by North Korea, the Navy's implausible Band Concert cover story, lost hydrogen bombs off Greenland, and the machinery of government propaganda. It moves between dark comedy and genuine fury before retreating, characteristically, to the whores, the booze, and eeny-meeny-miney-mo as the only sane response to world affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with coverage of the LAPD's arrest of the cast of Michael McClure's controversial play The Beard at the Warner Playhouse. The back cover listings include Electric Flag at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco and Bill Evans at Shelly's Manne-Hole. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis one is in really rough shape. There is about a 2-inch split on the spine at the horizontal fold. There is a 6-inch tear on the horizontal fold on the right that travels all the pages, including Notes. Additional two inch tear in the middle of the fold on the front cover and on the rear cover the entire horizontal fold has teared.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47884789809317,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_095910_9e74277c-c3f5-416e-a0b8-2a39f3dcd374.jpg?v=1780587381"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-54-may-31-june-6-1968-bukowskis-weird-world-jim-garrison-jfk-investigation-iron-butterfly-h-p-lovecraft","title":"OPEN CITY No. 54, May 31–June 6, 1968 — Bukowski's Weird World, Jim Garrison JFK Investigation, Iron Butterfly, H.P. 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It ends in a late-night scene upstairs, the first flaxen straight-string-hair woman, Bukowski translated into seven languages, and the morning after — old, starlit sun, walking out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with David Lifton and Kerry Thornley's investigation into Jim Garrison's New Orleans JFK assassination case, in blue and black two-color. The back cover is an elaborate illustrated puzzle page — rebus, maze, coin trick, and an Alice's Restaurant mushroom and escargot recipe — printed in purple and brown spot color. Concert listings include Iron Butterfly and H.P. Lovecraft at the Kaleidoscope on Sunset Blvd. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", blue and black spot color on cover, purple and brown on back cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. 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Bukowski watches Cassady jogging and bouncing through the Open City office, eyes out on toothpicks, singing like a kooky bird, and follows Bryan and Cassady on a long night drive. The column turns on a near-miss car crash on Carlton Avenue — the hairline, the divining line — and closes with Bryan's phone call a few days later: \"Neal's dead, Neal died.\" Bukowski's final meditation is of Cassady alone under a frozen Mexican moon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with John Bryan's account of the July 17 police raid on the Open City offices — two vice cops walking in and arresting Bryan for obscenity over a photograph of the Asylum Choir musicians — in striking teal and black two-color, alongside John Bryan's editorial \"The Anonymous Hypocrite\" on law, police, and City Attorney Roger Arnebergh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e Interior includes a Pink Floyd advertisement for their Shrine Exposition Hall appearance, July 26–27, and a feature on Richard Pryor at the Troubadour. 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Color vibrant but white pages have light browning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47887601238181,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_163505_48c41cdd-bcc0-41a8-a337-2f4161d719e4.jpg?v=1780667063"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-63-aug-2-8-1968-bukowski-notes-newport-pop-festival-jefferson-airplane-grateful-dead-the-byrds-canned-heat-heil-humphrey","title":"OPEN CITY No. 63, Aug. 2–8, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, Newport Pop Festival, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Heil Humphrey","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" A tailor named Jack keeps sewing while his friend Harry discovers three dead bodies in the apartment: one in the kitchen, one in the closet, one in the bathtub. Harry panics and threatens to call the police while Jack sews on. Jack goes to the phone and slips his penis into the mouthpiece. The column moves through a surreal meditation on murder, masturbation, and dead flies growing drunk on the bodies, closing with Jack alone at the table, the sun going pink, the South African lobster at his left elbow that he never got to eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with John Bryan's investigation into Hubert Humphrey's political record — \"Heil Humphrey\" — with a Nazi swastika superimposed over his photograph, in striking red and black two-color. The back cover carries a full-page advertisement for the Newport Pop Festival at the Orange County Fairgrounds, August 3–4, featuring Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, Canned Heat, Electric Flag, the Butterfield Blues Band, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Blue Cheer. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", red and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Euclid, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSmall hole where the vertical and horizontal folds meet, small tear in same place on back cover. Uneven folds result in pages sticking out from the cover, leading to small tears and folds on the page edges. Color fading a bit and light browning to the covers, spind and page edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47887629942949,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_162446_-_Copy.jpg?v=1780668713"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-64-aug-9-15-1968-bukowski-at-the-races-and-the-olympic-auditorium-eldridge-cleaver-dick-gregory-newport-pop-festival-jim-morrison","title":"OPEN CITY No. 64, Aug. 9–15, 1968 — Bukowski at the Races and the Olympic Auditorium, Eldridge Cleaver, Dick Gregory, Newport Pop Festival, Jim Morrison","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" Opening with a meditation on the psychology of losing at the racetrack and the \"death-wish\" that keeps gamblers coming back, the column pivots into a sustained memory of the old days at the Olympic Auditorium watching boxing. The centerpiece is a night when a young fighter named Enrique Balanos fought Watson, a bout of such intensity that it ends with Bukowski smashing his glass against the wall, going home through the Los Angeles rain with his woman, making love, and laughing until dawn — closing with poor Watson laying somewhere, blue all over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with John Bryan's coverage of the California Peace and Freedom Party convention, where Eldridge Cleaver beat Dick Gregory for the presidential nomination, printed in striking purple and black two-color. The back cover carries a photo spread from the Newport Pop Festival featuring Jim Morrison, Blue Cheer, Country Joe and the Fish, and Sonny and Cher, alongside the weekly calendar which notes Doug Blazek reading at the Ahmanson Research Center. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", purple and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis one is in really nice shape with even folds. Pages stick out slightly but there very few tiny tears. The color is fairly vibrant and the pages are white, if not bright white. Overall, a very nice copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47887640690853,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_135630_-_Copy.jpg?v=1780669294"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-69-sept-13-19-1968-bukowski-baseball-column-cops-zap-underground-comix-crumb-bob-dylans-tarantula-gabor-szabo-cannonball-adderley-muddy-waters","title":"OPEN CITY No. 69, Sept. 13–19, 1968 — Bukowski Baseball Column, Cops Zap Underground Comix, Crumb, Bob Dylan's Tarantula, , Gabor Szabo, Cannonball Adderley, Muddy Waters","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column is the baseball piece: Bukowski manages a last-place minor league team called the Blues; a kid with angel wings appears in his office claiming to be sent by God to help the club; the column follows a miraculous season culminating in a 12th-inning pennant clincher, with Bukowski closing having forgiven $250,000 in debts and watching the score-keeper's nylon legs fold around another damn fool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with John Bryan's investigation into a new LA County loitering ordinance targeting the Sunset Strip, printed in striking two-color blue and black. Interior includes a substantial feature on the LAPD's obscenity crackdown on underground comix, with detailed coverage of Robert Crumb and Victor Moscoso's Zap Comix. A Bob Dylan Tarantula excerpt and review appears alongside an interview with Hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo on revolution and American youth. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", blue and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmall hole where the vertical and horizontal folds meet. Slightly uneven leading to pages sticking out slightly but with very few tiny tears. Color is vibrant and pages are bright and white. Some light browning on the page edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47887645114533,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_100158_f1eb8a9c-b3c6-4ae8-8e73-42fbe62c3cb3.jpg?v=1780670157"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-70-sept-20-26-1968-bukowski-notes-l-a-s-secret-political-police-quicksilver-messenger-service-ravi-shankar-procol-harum","title":"OPEN CITY No. 70, Sept. 20–26, 1968 -- With Renaissance Supplement Edited by Bukowski (Skinny Dynamite)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile this is a pretty standard issue of OPEN CITY, it is notable for the Section 2 Supplement, Renaissance, A Magazine of the Arts. Open City publisher John Bryan asked Bukowski to be the guest editor for this second installment of the supplement. Despite knowing what would most likely happen, Bukowski decided to print Jack Micheline’s short story “Skinny Dynamite”. Micheline describes Skinny as a “white jew with a black soul” who begins giving blow jobs at 10 and having sex at 11. Skinny prefers “spades and Puerto Ricans” and the story climaxes with a gang bang at a Puerto Rican gang house that begins with a “Chinaman” performing anal sex on Skinny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter publication, John Bryan was charged with obscenity and the resulting legal costs would subsequently force Open City to go bankrupt. Bukowski denied any responsibility and refused to take part in subsequent fund raisers by other poets and musicians. As Bryan would later recall, “Bukowski played the editor and I went to jail”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBukowski’s contribution to the issue is called “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”. It is also erotic, but in Bukowski’s own cynical style. Micheline used “fuck” several times in his piece, while Bukowski used phrases like “orgy butter”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs far as Open City No. 70 is concerned, the edition of \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man” finds Bukowski getting drunk with Jensen, a famous writer whose work bores him. Bukowski is taken to meet Marlowe at the house of L, a celebrated literary figure with a German shepherd named Poopoo and a $250 guitar on the porch swing. Marlowe arrives — Japanese, black shiny pants, white jacket, bowing — and the evening escalates through a parade of literary credentials, dropped wallets, and broken arms, until the whole thing collapses in magnificent chaos and Bukowski heads back toward warm Southern California, the Revolution not arriving fast enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front cover leads with John Bryan's investigation into the LAPD's Metropolitan Squad — the city's secret political police, modeled on Nazi intelligence structures and dedicated to surveilling and suppressing political dissidents — in striking hot pink and black two-color. Interior includes a wide-ranging critique of the contemporary rock scene, photographic coverage of the LA Sheriff's Department, and concert listings for Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sons of Champlin, and Ace of Cups. Advertisements include the Ravi Shankar Chappaqua soundtrack featuring William S. 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The pages are white and the color is still fairly vibrant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47888000123045,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_162041_-_Copy.jpg?v=1780687306"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-71-sept-27-oct-3-1968-bukowski-notes-bob-dylans-tarantula-dr-spock-on-nixon-police-attack-elysian-park-procol-harum","title":"OPEN CITY No. 71, Sept. 27–Oct. 3, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, Bob Dylan's Tarantula, Dr. Spock on Nixon, Police Attack Elysian Park, Procol Harum","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens at a hot party where Bukowski plays piano and people dance on the couch, moves through a bathroom encounter with two naked men, a bar in North Hollywood with Big Jack and his girlfriend Maggy, and a long strange vigil watching people disappear behind a big curtain. The column turns on the moment a light-colored man approaches Bukowski in the gym — \"I read Crucifix in a Deathland, I consider you the greatest since Verlaine\" — and reaches out and cups Bukowski's balls. Bukowski walks out to the Pasadena freeway, finds his car ticketed in somebody's driveway, a letter from his ex-wife in Arizona, and lets the water run into the bathtub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with John Bryan's eyewitness account of the LAPD assault on Thomas Carpenter's peaceful Elysian Park Autumn Equinox Celebration, printed in green and black two-color. Interior includes the third installment of Bob Dylan's Tarantula, Dr. Benjamin Spock's forecast of Nixon's presidency and increased repression, and an account of KTLA commentator Stan Bohrman's resignation over censorship. The back cover carries a full-page advertisement for Procol Harum's Shine On Brightly on A\u0026amp;M Records. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", green and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Euclid, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSlightly uneven folds. Pages stick out slightly on the right and bottom. The biggest flaw is probably a two-inch fold on the right side of the horizontal fold. It’s not a tear, but the section has rolled over on itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47888018505893,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_161559.jpg?v=1780687954"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-72-oct-4-10-1968-bukowski-notes-the-byrds-sweet-heart-of-the-rodeo-donovan-at-the-hollywood-bowl-andy-warhol-strip-vs-cops","title":"OPEN CITY No. 72, Oct. 4–10, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, The Byrds Sweet Heart of the Rodeo, Donovan at the Hollywood Bowl, Andy Warhol, Strip vs. Cops","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column is wide-ranging and associative, moving from a vision of himself as a statue in the Kremlin, through Bukowski in Havana in sunlight, a high-yellow man who reads Rimbaud, the walls of the world, crying when Judy Garland was shot too late, ten years of the telephone and Mary who'd phone again — to a door finally opening and a voice saying come on up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with coverage of the September 28 Peace and Freedom Party march of 800 demonstrators down the Sunset Strip against the anti-loitering ordinance, in striking blue and black two-color. Interior features a challenge to Andy Warhol by Sam Allen, a review of Ben Van Meter's psychedelic film Acid Mantra, and a full-page Columbia Records advertisement for The Byrds' Sweet Heart of the Rodeo. Also featured is Bob Garcia's review of Donovan at the Hollywood Bowl and a report on the New York Film Festival. Advertisements include Barbarella starring Jane Fonda and David Hemmings, and a Morton Subotnick electronic music performance of selections from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", blue and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. 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Color is vibrant pages are bright and white with minimal browning. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47888034562213,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_161053_3942c2b8-b570-4c7f-9263-55202d08cf5a.jpg?v=1780688396"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-82-dec-13-19-1968-bukowski-at-the-races-poets-fight-back-benefit-ad-for-the-doors-at-the-la-forum-mothers-of-invention-creedence-clearwater-revival","title":"OPEN CITY No. 82, Dec. 13–19, 1968 — Bukowski at the Races, Poets Fight Back Benefit, Ad for The Doors at the LA Forum, Mothers of Invention, Creedence Clearwater Revival","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column follows Jack Fandley through a long day at the track: picking horses, reading the dead dog in the program, working the crowd psychology. A giant named Candy appears at the window. A grey-haired woman slides in beside him under the blankets. Cecelia takes the lead through the backstretch. The column closes with Jack going to sleep and the morning line dropping again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA half-page advertisement with photo documents the New York \"Poets Fight Back\" benefit — held at Washington Square Methodist Church on November 29 to support Open City's obscenity fight and Jack Micheline's Skinny Dynamite. Bukowski was the guest editor who published Skinny Dynamite but declined to participate in the benefit reading. Those that did include Ed Saunders, Taylor Mead, Diane Wakowski, Tuli Kupferberg, Ray Bremser, Jack Micheline, Jerome Rothenberg, Ted Joans, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with Robert Igriega's investigation into the use of Mace on Loyola University students at an Open City meeting, in striking orange and black two-color, alongside Paul Krassner's \"Ten Advantages of Violence\" and a news item on Allen Ginsberg's crash injury. Interior includes record reviews of Dillard and Clark, Frank Zappa's Ruben and the Jets. Back cover features a one-night-only Doors advertisement for the Forum with Sweetwater and Jerry Lee Lewis. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", orange and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. 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Some browning along the edges, but paper is white and color is intact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47894043918501,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_143343_2737ee23-ac20-4a0b-af9c-3c77d4ca10e6.jpg?v=1780934724"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-83-dec-20-26-1968-bukowski-notes-the-doors-forum-review-eldridge-cleaver-centerfold-poster-grateful-dead-country-joe-everly-brothers-andy-warhol","title":"OPEN CITY No. 83, Dec. 20–26, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, The Doors Forum Review,  Eldridge Cleaver Centerfold Poster, Grateful Dead, Country Joe, Everly Brothers, Andy Warhol","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens with the flu and too many people banging on the door, ranges through a meditation on the poetry scene, Norman Mailer, and Ginsberg on a Guggenheim year. A young Jewish lad — a good poet — arrives at Bukowski's door and ends up being driven to the airport. Ginsberg breaks his ribs in a crash somewhere. Three bets on Ferlinghetti going to Europe. The doorbell rings again as the column closes, and Bukowski decides to ignore it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe issue's most visually striking feature is a full-page centerfold portrait of Eldridge 52Cleaver — \"Eldridge Cleaver Welcome Here\" — a poster funded by the International Committee for Cleaver's Defense, intended to be hung in readers' windows as a solidarity statement during his flight from US authorities. The front cover leads with John Bryan's coverage of the student uprising at Hamilton High and across Los Angeles, in striking purple and black two-color, alongside Paul Eberle's report on Mayor Yorty's red-baiting at an SDS press conference. Interior features a major profile of the Everly Brothers by Andy Wickham, a review of the Doors' Forum concert, a review of Pierre Henry's electronic music albums, and coverage of the Venice Beach Blue Meanies rally. Large advertisement for the Shrine Exposition Hall concerts featuring Country Joe and the Fish, the Grateful Dead, and the Sir Douglas Quintet. The back cover is a full-page advertisement for Hell in the Pacific, starring Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune, directed by John Boorman. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", purple and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSlightly uneven fold, but otherwise in great shape. 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Interior includes an in-depth report on the assassination of Black Panther leaders Bunchy Carter and John Huggins at UCLA, and coverage of the student uprising at Valley State College. Also a half-page ad for the Flying Burrito Brothers.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eFull broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", purple and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy has a very slight uneven fold. The pages are white, but not bright. Color is fading a bit. Overall some wear to the covers and some small tears and folds to the end pages. Small tears to the right and left on the horizontal fold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47894227976357,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_141130_-_Copy.jpg?v=1780939163"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-76-nov-1-7-1968-wallace-inaugural-issue-peaceniks-vs-westlake-patriots-bukowski-interrogated-by-agents-iron-butterfly-and-creedence-clearwater-revival-at-the-shrine-expo-hall-film-and-dance-orgy-benefit-for-open-city-defense-fund","title":"OPEN CITY No. 76, Nov. 1–7, 1968 — Wallace Inaugural Issue, Peaceniks vs. Westlake Patriots, Bukowski Interrogated by Agents, Iron Butterfly and Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Shrine Expo Hall, Film and Dance Orgy Benefit for Open City Defense Fund","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens with three men arriving at Bukowski's door with badges, questioning him about 140 articles he apparently wrote on politics — the interrogation turning on Vietnam, revolution, and race, the big one being whether he would allow his daughter to marry a Black man. Bukowski navigates their questions with flat deflection, the dialogue drifting through street scenes of middle-aged drifters and goons pulling guns on garbage cans. The column closes with him getting out of the tub, finding half a chair, sitting down, and his whole arm shooting up at the ceiling like a piece of burning cellophane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA Film and Dance Orgy benefit for the Open City Defense Fund is advertised for November 10th at Pasadena Cinematheque 16, featuring three hours of experimental films including \u003ci\u003eHead\u003c\/i\u003e and selections from San Francisco filmmakers, with rock bands in a second room. Unfortunately, Bryan’s father clipped a portion of the ad – perhaps it was a photo of his son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe cover is a striking two-color political cartoon — the Wallace Inaugural Issue — depicting Wallace with a lasso and a Klan hood floating above, alongside a cigar-smoking figure seated on a powder keg, with interior articles on the peace march vs. Nazis, \"Henry Wallaceland,\" \"Wallace Slavecamp,\" and \"Blacks Resist Wallace.\" Full broadsheet format, purple and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eRobert Igriega contributes \"The Peaceniks Meet the Westlake Patriots,\" a ground-level account of a peace march confrontation in MacArthur Park — evangelist trucks, football-field bleachers, a crowd spilling into Wilshire Boulevard, cops in riot formation, and a large man dragging a young kid while a CBS crew films it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAdvertisement promotes Iron Butterfly and Albert King with special guest stars Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Shrine Expo Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 107%;\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. 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White covers show rubbing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47894492381349,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/1000022729_d39bbc8a-3797-40da-b6d2-3dc4c203be4c.jpg?v=1780943630"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-32-dec-8-14-1967-bukowski-on-leroi-jones-radio-free-oz-at-the-magic-mushroom","title":"OPEN CITY No. 32, Dec. 8–14, 1967 — Bukowski on LeRoi Jones, Radio Free Oz at the Magic Mushroom","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens with Bukowski reading the December issue of \u003cem\u003eEvergreen\u003c\/em\u003e, which contains poetry by LeRoi Jones, and his three-year-old daughter asking him to write a poem called \"Who's Afraid of LeRoi Jones?\" A white liberal woman on the street corners him and lectures him at length about Black America, invoking Jones by name, her voice high-pitched and hectoring. Bukowski reflects on Jones — remembering when they were both scratching to get poems into little magazines — and deflects the woman's racial theorizing with weary amusement. He kisses the little girl goodbye and drives on to work. Later, a Black man on the porch calls him \"poor white trash,\" and he laughs, picks up his suitcase of poems, and moves on down the street. The column closes at a communist party meeting of all-white members, with a remark about Governor Reagan, leaving Bukowski to mutter: \"a pretty fucked-up scene — eh, LeRoi? brother?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with coverage of a Vietnam draft resistance ceremony in which 22 young men submerged their draft cards in a goblet of blood. Interior features include a pointed critique of The Doors by Frank Kofsky, and coverage of draft dodgers making their way to Canada and Japan. Advertisements include Radio Free Oz live at the Magic Mushroom on KRLA 1110AM, and the Ash Grove featuring Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Jack Elliott and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The back cover features Liza Williams' \"In the City\" column alongside the weekly listings. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy is in great shape with an even fold. There is a small tear on the right side of the horizontal fold. 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He is taken in, confused and half-drunk, unable to account for what he may have done. The agents haul him to Moyamensing Prison, where his cellmate is Courtney Taylor, public enemy number one, a charming con man and dice hustler who killed two men, schools Bukowski in crooked dice games, and holds court with the cook for extra food. The prisoners are starving while the warden and cook eat well; Taylor manages the angle on everything. Eventually the F.B.I. determines Bukowski innocent of deliberate draft dodging, runs him through the induction center, and a psychiatrist asks him whether he is willing to go to war — he says yes, is handed a folded piece of paper, and walks out. He unfolds it: it reads that he hides an extreme sensitivity under a poker face. He laughs, thinks of Taylor, and that is how he won the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBoth the front and back covers are given over to \"Displacement,\" a psychedelic comic strip printed in two-color with purple ink, making this one of the more visually distinctive issues in the run. It was created by Larry Hama, best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro toyline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAlso featured is a report on radio censorship. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\".\u003cbr\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy is in nice shape with an even fold. The color is vibrant but the white paper shows a little aging. Some light browning along the edges,\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47895602921637,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_094847_1afad3f4-92ac-442c-a226-7e57c1b40fa5.jpg?v=1780949647"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-41-feb-9-15-1968-bukowski-early-version-of-a-scene-from-barfly-jefferson-airplane-cream-mayor-yorty","title":"OPEN CITY No. 41, Feb. 9–15, 1968 — Bukowski Early Version of a Scene from Barfly, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Mayor Yorty","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column is an early version of a scene that would later be included in the Barfly screenplay. It opens with a reader's letter asking what Bukowski was doing before he started writing at 35 — he answers: not writing. What follows is a long, whiskey-soaked night with Mary, a woman who won't leave, calling herself a whore and him a god-damned whore too, slamming doors, threatening to crack his skull with her purse — this is his third K.O. from her — before he drains the wineglass, opens the door, and chases her down the hall in shorts and undershirt, spinning her and giving her a fair open-handed slap along the cheek. She goes down, legs in tight nylon, and he thinks he must be crazy. Another door opens: it is another woman, Mary's friend, whose husband has hit her too. He puts her up for the night on the couch. Days later Mary returns with Eddie and the Dutchess, wine is poured, the Dutchess claims she was raped, accusations fly, a full glass of wine smashes against the north wall, Bukowski grabs the Dutchess and puts the chain on the door. In the morning he finds women's clothes scattered across the neighborhood, gathers them up, and phones the Salvation Army. An old man in the backyard hands him the clothes back over the fence in a box. The column closes with Mary, Eddie, and the Dutchess returning that night, more wine poured, and love — of a battered, linoleum-tossed sort — having taken over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover features a pointed caricature of President Johnson alongside coverage of Dr. Benjamin Spock's antiwar activism and a profile of Derek Taylor, press officer for the Beatles. Interior includes a full-page Pinnacle concert advertisement featuring Jefferson Airplane and Cream at the Shrine Auditorium. The back cover reproduces in full a letter from the office of Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, dated January 29, 1968, declaring Open City \"obviously communist inspired\" and containing material \"contrary to good morals.\" Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy has an even fold but with some small tears and chips to the top and bottom page edges. There is overall age to the paper and some light browning to the edges. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47896016715941,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_100348_601ec4b9-e84b-418c-a830-914fa7b1cf3b.jpg?v=1780950386"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-42-feb-16-22-1968-bukowski-notes-neal-cassady-obituary-judy-collins-venice-police-riots","title":"OPEN CITY No. 42, Feb. 16–22, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, Neal Cassady Obituary, Judy Collins, Venice Police Riots","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens on a New Orleans sidewalk where Bukowski watches a drunk Frenchman and a drunk Italian locked in a slow, absurd loop of friendship and violence — the Italian knocking the Frenchman's head against the wall, the Frenchman insisting he is his friend, the whole car eventually joggled into the street before the Italian slices the Frenchman's hands on the door. Bukowski moves on to a cab company job working the gas pump and register under a man named Sanderson, who keeps him around to protect the money and shows him where the gun is. The real action is a nearby whorehouse run out of a soft-drink stand, presided over by a quiet electric woman named Elsie in a little girl's dress, who one night brings 3 or 4 young colored girls into the place — all beautiful, all laughing, buying drinks and talking — and Bukowski sits confused and happy among them for two nights running until the Italian cabby Pinelli stalks in, lifts the lid off the soft drink container, and declares the drinks are for taxi drivers only. Bukowski leaves Elsie staring down at that, walks out to pump gas, and the column closes with him reflecting on the strange power the two of them had — they could kill a man or save him — and that nothing was ever promised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe front cover leads with dramatic photographs of armed riot police confronting Venice Beach residents. Interior includes a full-page obituary for Neal Cassady — the real-life inspiration for Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's On the Road and driver of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bus — written by editor John Bryan. Also featured is an in-depth report on LA's all-black outlaw motorcycle club, the Black Choppers. The back cover features Liza Williams' column on Judy Collins with photograph. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis copy is in great shape with an even fold and very white pages. There are some small tears and folds to the top and bottom pages. Someone wrote Love! Love! Love! at the top of the masthead in blue ink. Some light browning on the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47896625152165,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_135505_4a41eb5e-64a2-4e99-b5a1-914ba62f7d93.jpg?v=1780952679"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-43-feb-23-29-1968-bukowski-notes-the-fugs-la-free-press","title":"OPEN CITY No. 43, Feb. 23–29, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, The Fugs, LA Free Press","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens with an unsigned poem addressed \"To Funky Bukowski\" — a long, rolling self-description from a smooth clean cunt who loves long-distance sex — to which Bukowski responds with a sprawling meditation on sex as the tragi-comedy of the universe, dismissing beauty contest winners grown demeaned in supermarkets, and arriving at 2,000 pieces of ass, most of them not very good. A memory surfaces of being drafted alongside a young shipping clerk, the two of them leaping like spider-monkeys across cardboard packing cases looking for a number. The 17-year-old blond girl at the bar proves to be under the madam-lesbian's protection, and they go up the hill together, the door closes, and then the madam swings her very shiny thick interesting steel claw. Bukowski could not fathom why he wanted that ugly scene. He comes back down the hill, the liquor store closed, pours a quiet drink, goes to bed alone and lets the world go by. The column closes with a tender, explicit poem in Bukowski's own voice addressed to \"Dear Unsigned\" — oh my god, baby, I can hardly wait — signed, yours truly, Charles Bukowski.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover asks \"Will Blacks, Chicanos Unite?\" alongside a striking close-up portrait. Interior features a substantial interview with The Fugs, the New York avant-garde band and counterculture provocateurs. The back cover carries an editorial by John Bryan on the relationship between Open City and the Los Angeles Free Press. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy has an even fold but has 1.5\" tear on the left and small tear on the right of the fold. The paper shows some browning and there are some small years along the page edges which stick out slightly to the right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47896637604005,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_140101_1270da43-ec6a-4837-9672-51319dbfd881.jpg?v=1780953364"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-44-mar-1-7-1968-bukowski-notes-ralph-gleason-liza-williams","title":"OPEN CITY No. 44, Mar. 1–7, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, Ralph Gleason, Liza Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column is structured entirely as a Kafkaesque dialogue between Bukowski — addressed throughout as \"Stirkoff\" — and a nameless interrogating authority who calls himself the Winner and speaks with the smooth cadence of total power. The Winner asks Stirkoff about justice, joy, survival, his vicious father, the best piece of ass he ever had, the definition of a brave man and a fool, whether he plays with himself, whether he can build a bridge or make a gun. Bukowski answers with flat deflection — of course, sir; only one; many times, sir — eating raw eggs and a pound of hamburger in a thin-necked flower bowl while listening to Vaughn Williams or Darius Milhaud. The Winner declares that bridges and guns are the products of knowledge, that Time, Structure, and Flesh are being mostly wasted, that there are no wise men and no fools and if there isn't any white there can't be any Black. He threatens beheading, torture, screaming. Bukowski doubts it, sir. The Winner orders the guard to take this man to the torture chambers immediately. Bukowski makes one last request — may he take his flower bowl — the king leans forward, grimly, Vaughn Williams comes over the intercom, and outside the world moves forward as a lice-smitten dog pisses against a beautiful lemon tree vibrating in the sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover features a bold caricature of a traffic court judge alongside coverage of jazz critic Ralph Gleason's warnings of a second American civil war and a report on government repression of the counterculture. The back cover carries Liza Williams' \"In the City\" column recounting a trip to the Los Angeles Zoo, with photographs by Robert Gold. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy is in excellent condition with an even fold, white pages and a bit of browning to the edges. Someone has corrected the mailing address in pen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47898024312997,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_140703_-_Copy.jpg?v=1781009206"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-45-mar-8-14-1968-bukowski-on-his-parents-chicano-walkouts-quicksilver-messenger-service-steppenwolf","title":"OPEN CITY No. 45, Mar. 8–14, 1968 — Bukowski on His Parents, Chicano Walkouts, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steppenwolf","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens with a meditation on the Frozen Man Stance — that condition of immobility, lack of wonder, and increasing numbness afflicting poets and men everywhere — before arriving at its true subject: his father. A cowardly, vicious brute who beat him regularly with a long leather razor strop in the bathroom, calling the mother in to witness, she shaming the boy with \"YOU MISSED ONE,\" the father screaming him back in to begin again. Bukowski reflects that he felt no love, fear, or anger — only a cold mathematic disgust. At seventeen he begins drinking with older boys, roaming gas stations and liquor stores. One night drunk he shoulders his parents' door off its hinges, confronts his father, who presses his face toward a lake of vomit on the Tree of Life rug — Bukowski swings up from the heels and catches him full on the chin. The continuation on page 10 picks up with his mother clawing his face, the father bleeding, and then a second thread: joining the ROTC at Los Angeles High School around 1937, Frozen among the grapefruit-balled boys in uniform, watching a boy named Jimmy — cared for by many, fucked up by the Army — throw his competition medal down a sewer drain outside a drugstore. Jimmy was later shot down over the English Channel. The column closes with a letter from a poet friend in London describing his own Frozen Man existence in a fishbowl, and Bukowski sitting with two people left — himself and his buddy Jimmy — tra la la la, la la la.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with on-the-ground coverage of the East Los Angeles high school walkouts, in which 5,000 Chicano students staged one of the largest student protests in LA history to that point. Interior includes an advertisement for the first Los Angeles appearance of Quicksilver Messenger Service, alongside Steppenwolf and Kaleidoscope at the Cheetah in Venice. The back cover features Liza Williams' \"In the City\" column. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlightly uneven fold leading to page edges sticking out a bit with small tears and folds. Some toning to the pages and a bit of browning here and there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47898062356645,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_141223_-_Copy.jpg?v=1781010485"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-47-mar-22-28-1968-bukowski-notes-tiny-tim-jefferson-airplane-buffalo-springfield-canned-heat","title":"OPEN CITY No. 47, Mar. 22–28, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, Tiny Tim, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, Canned Heat","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens in a bookstore where Bukowski meets a woman in a short tight skirt and high heels whose eyes seem to reach into a deep flash of darkness — he is drawn to her immediately, and they end up at the bar next door. Their courtship lasts three weeks before she tells him she doesn't love him, only feels that she must marry him. He says \"o.k., sweetums.\" She loses the short skirt and high heels and takes to a long red corduroy gown down to her ankles, talks to spiders and bugs, keeps the house badly, and turns out to be a fulltime maid named Felicia. A demon, she says, visits her in two forms — a cat's body with a man's face, and a man's body with a cat's face — and she smears mirrors with ointment and screams. They have a child. Bukowski sneaks a psychiatrist into the house who commits her; she speaks brilliantly in her own defense, confuses two court physicians, and the judge dismisses the hearing. He drives her home to her filthy red gown. Meanwhile a man named Final Benson — close to 350 pounds, claims to have been on the land all his life — arrives and moves into the spare rooms. One night Bukowski hears terrible moans from those rooms and slips out to find Yevonna gone in the morning. He packs it all in, takes Felicia and the child to Los Angeles, rents a motel room, buys a fifth of whiskey, and is awakened by Felicia's voice quoting scripture at him — the column breaking off, continued on page 14.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover is given over entirely to a mock wanted poster naming an LAPD officer for the murder of Brother Gregory Clark. Interior includes a full-page feature on Tiny Tim at the height of his notoriety. The back cover listings include Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and Canned Heat at the Kaleidoscope. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy has an even fold but the page edges have some small tears. Paper shows some toning and light browning along the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47898100695205,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20260608_153146_-_Copy.jpg?v=1781011601"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-48-mar-29-apr-4-1968-bukowski-at-the-races-the-doors-judy-collins-tim-buckley-paul-butterfield-blues-band-yippie-presidential-campaign","title":"OPEN CITY No. 48, Mar. 29–Apr. 4, 1968 — Bukowski at the Races, The Doors, Judy Collins, Tim Buckley, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Yippie Presidential Campaign","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column is dateline Santa Anita, March 22, 1968, written in the voice of a man 408 dollars down and 40 dollars more in the hole, working the races with hard-won and largely futile system logic — toteboards, 5\/2 payoffs, parking fee variances, the slow unbelievable drain of money bet at the last moment. Bukowski reflects at length on the nature of horseplayers — men and women driven to the track by the same accumulated miseries of life: the landlord's hand, the foreman's face, bad jobs, bad weather, the blues — and on the particular madness of believing you can outthink the board. The afternoon builds toward a single explosive moment: an outrider in a red hunting jacket appears on RICH DESIRE during the post parade, the crowd begins moving onto the track, a man waves his program at the board, another leaps the rail, the announcer demands the track be cleared repeatedly, ten policemen move in, the outrider grabs the number one horse's jockey and tries to pull him from the saddle, the police pull the outrider, the horses go through anyway — RICH DESIRE wins, Pierce on the number one horse is nearly pulled from the saddle, the game is lost and the track cleared. The column closes the next day, March 23, Los Angeles, 45,000 people at the track, the horses running, Bukowski writing — same damn sadness, same damn place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA visually striking issue with red, white and blue spot color used throughout. The front cover mocks the 1968 presidential race by pitting Robert F. Kennedy against Pigasus, the Yippie movement's pig candidate. Interior features a two-page color spread on the Kaleidoscope venue. The back cover carries a full-page Elektra Records antiwar advertisement listing Judy Collins, Tim Buckley, The Doors, Love, the Incredible String Band and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", red, white and blue spot color on cover and back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy is in nice condition with an even fold and the color remains vibrant. The interior pages stick out a bit on the right leading to some small tears and folds. Two-inch clean tear on bottom right of the front cover. Some light browning along the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47898136871077,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20260608_153440.jpg?v=1781012795"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-49-apr-5-11-1968-bukowski-notes-blood-sweat-and-tears-h-rap-brown-lbj-withdrawal","title":"OPEN CITY No. 49, Apr. 5–11, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, Blood Sweat and Tears, H. Rap Brown, LBJ Withdrawal","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column is built around Red, a young road drifter Bukowski has fallen in with — beastly cruel, beastly inhuman. Red runs a grim operation on an old woman, charges by the piece, keeps moving, never stays. Over beers he lays out his road philosophy: two pairs of pants, a razor under the belt, a white shirt rinsed in the sink, a strip necktie, a little icepick in an elastic strap halfway up the arm — always ready, a white collar job among the shits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePublished in the immediate aftermath of President Johnson's surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election, the cover responds with sardonic glee. Interior features a substantial interview with Blood Sweat and Tears founder Al Kooper, and a letter written from jail by civil rights militant H. Rap Brown. A two-page photo spread documents sculptor Bill Spater's guerrilla exhibition at Long Beach State College. An interior full-page photograph captures a naked man being arrested at Venice Beach. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe paper is a bit aged on this one with rubbing. The page edges stick out on the right side, leading to small tears and folds. There is a small hole on the left of the horizontal fold \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47898268663973,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_142612_8470172c-6f35-484b-a740-6183ce18f541.jpg?v=1781018392"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-35-dec-29-jan-4-1967-68-bukowskis-love-letter-to-liza-jefferson-airplane-the-fugs-chambers-bros","title":"OPEN CITY No. 35, Dec. 29–Jan. 4, 1967\/68 — Bukowski's Love Letter to Liza, Jefferson Airplane, The Fugs, Chambers Bros.","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man,\" appearing on page five under the header \"A Love Letter to Liza.\" The column opens with Bukowski going over his old Racing Forms late and depressed, a knock at the door, and a woman standing in the rain — long red hair all down the back, a body that was nothing but sex. She comes in, sits on the chair in front of the fireplace, and the encounter escalates through the apartment in a slow, physical fever — the beerbottle knocked over, her skirt going up, the red hair everywhere. She calls him a diseased gorilla and a troglodyte. He grabs the long red hair and yanks. She calls him an immortal writer. He works at the beer. It is all too late. The column closes with Bukowski at the beer, having worked at it, the whole thing done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe front cover, reprinted from \u003cem\u003eThe Seed\u003c\/em\u003e (UPS), is a striking pink and black comic strip titled \"What To Do In 3 Minutes While Waiting For The End\" — a response to the news item that US nuclear attack warning time had been reduced from 15 to 3 minutes, with panels advising readers to sign up for unemployment, burn your draft card, write dirty words on walls, dial a prayer, boil a 3-minute egg — the last panel a black square with a single \"BEEP.\" Interior features a two-part jazz feature on the Jefferson Airplane by Frank Kofsky, and a Bob Garcia music column covering the Collectors, a Vancouver pop group. Back cover is a full-page pink and black advertisement for The Fugs' \u003cem\u003eTenderness Junction\u003c\/em\u003e on Reprise Records. Mailing label addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Euclid, Ohio. Full broadsheet format, pink and black spot color on front and back covers, black and white interior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy is in excellent condition. It has an even fold, the pages are white and the color is vivid. Very slight browning here and there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47905095483557,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250809_094039_-_Copy.jpg?v=1781181872"},{"product_id":"open-city-no-74-oct-18-24-1968-bukowski-on-first-wife-barbara-frye-how-wallace-can-win-sirhan-bishara-sirhan-part-2-biff-rose-in-memory-of-florence-beaumont","title":"OPEN CITY No. 74, Oct. 18–24, 1968 — Bukowski on First Wife Barbara Frye, How Wallace Can Win; Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Part 2; Biff Rose; In Memory of Florence Beaumont","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column draws on his real-life marriage to Barbara Frye, a small-town Texas poet he agreed to marry sight unseen after a correspondence. The column opens with Bukowski living on Kingsley Street, working as a shipping clerk, drinking beer each night, stuffing poems into envelopes and mailing them to little magazines — letters come back saying he is God. A woman begins writing to him, sending photos, not bad at all, writing that nobody will ever marry her. Drunk one night he writes back that he will. They end up on a bus to her small Texas town, arriving at 3:59 a.m., the trip already going sideways. In Texas they fall in with a man named Mr. Dyer who owns farms, walks them past fish ponds and turkey runs and talks about the land. The column closes out on that flat Texas ground with Bukowski taking stock of where his life has brought him.\u003cspan class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe front cover leads with \"How Wallace Can Win\" by Andrew Fox of the New York Press. Interior includes Jack Hirschman's \"Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Part 2,\" a Bob Garcia profile of Biff Rose, and a memorial for Florence Beaumont. Advertisements include Lee Michaels at the Whisky-a-Go-Go and a Lord Buckley World Pacific Records release. Full broadsheet format, black and white throughout. Full broadsheet format, 22.5\" x 15.5\", pink and black spot color on cover, black and white throughout interior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John E. Bryan, 22420 Edgecliff Drive, Cleveland, Ohio — the editor's father at his home address.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis copy is in great shape. The folds are fairly even, the pages are white and the color is vibrant. Small tear on right side of horizontal fold, some small tears and folds on interior pages that stick out slightly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47905113768101,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20250810_160215_-_Copy.jpg?v=1781183297"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/collections\/20250809_174752_-_Copy.jpg?v=1781034729","url":"https:\/\/thebukshop.com\/collections\/open-city.oembed","provider":"The Buk Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}