Harrison Street Review -- 11 Early Bukowski Drawings (1965) “Atomic Scribblings From a Manic Age” (1971)

This saga should probably be called “The Peculiar Case of Wayne Philpot”.

Back in 1965, Bukowski did the cover art for Border No. 2, a poetry journal published by one Wayne Philpot.

Philpot liked Bukowski’s drawings so much that he proposed a book of Bukowski drawings. Bukowski was excited by the idea and supposedly sent Philpot over 200 drawings, of which the editor chose 15 for publication.

The days went by, flyers were created, advertisements taken, but no book. Eventually Philpot went AWOL and Bukowski was sure Philpot was a nut and burned his drawings.

Fast forward seven years to Kansas City, Missouri, the home of Harrison Street Review. The editors were working on issue 2 of the magazine when Philpot appeared and said he had a cache of Bukowski drawings that he’d like to lend to the magazine.

The editors had no idea of the back story and for some reason assumed they were from the 1950s. Regardless, 11 of Bukowski’s drawings from 1965 finally saw the light of day.

This copy is in Near Fine condition with some wear to the green covers and bumps on the spine.

A nice copy of this historical issue edited by John Arnoldy published out of Kansas City, Missouri.

Box 10