Showcase No. 2, LouJon Press Copy -- Two First Appearance Charles Bukowski Poems (1965)

Published in 1965, Showcase No. 2, featured two Bukowski poems:

The High-Rise Of The New World
On The Train To Del Mar

The High-Rise Of The New World would later appear The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).

On The Train To Del Mar would appear in The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills (1969)

This copy is addressed to “The Outsider, LouJon Press at 1349 Canyon Rd., Sante Fe, New Mexico. That address is scratched out and replaced with “1009 E. Elm, Tucson, Ariz.” This was a time when Jon and Lou Webb were moving literally every few weeks to find a new home outside of New Orleans. Who knows if it ever got to them.

This copy is in Fair condition. The rear cover and last page are separated from the spine and there is a chip on the front cover.

A somewhat rare association copy of this publication out of Barstow, California.

Box 9