Hearse 17 with Bukowski Photocopied Receipt – 11 Charles Bukowski Poems, Three Uncollected (1972)

Published in 1972 by E.V. Griffith’s Hearse Press, Hearse 17 featured 11 Charles Bukowski poems, three of which remain uncollected.

This copy also comes with a photocopy of a receipt signed by Bukowski acknowledging payment.

The poems include:    

• The Automobiles of Delongpre
• The Beast
• On the Wagon
• Share the Pain
• The Golfers
• B.W,
• Man and Woman in Bed at Ten P.M.
• You Just Imagine
• The Mockingbird
• The Sex Fiends
• I was Clean Anyhow, I think

B.W, You Just Imagine and The Sex Fiends have yet to be collected in any books.

This copy is in Near Fine condition with a bit of summing to the spine.

E.V. Griffith published Bukowski’s first book (Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail) in 1960 and his first stand-alone poem/broadside, His Wife, The Painter.

Bukowski also appeared in several early issues of Hears, beginning in 1958. The magazine went on hiatus for a few years until Griffith came across a Bukowski poem submitted years before, which inspired him to start publishing Hearse again. That poem was the legendary The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills.

Overall, a nice copy by an important early supporter of Bukowski’s work.

Box 35