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Most Charles Bukowski manuscripts I sell and those you’ll find on the market are carbon copies or photocopies of the original typed poems (although there are all kinds of exceptions).
This manuscript is called a ribbon copy, meaning the ink is from typewriter ribbon. So this is the original manuscript that came off Bukowski’s typewriter.
The Lady in Red is a remembrance of growing up in Depression times. Like Bukowski’s best poems, it is both humorous and poignant at the same time. (The Lady in Red was the nickname of Anna Sage, The prostitute and madam who reported John Dillinger to the FBI.)
The first appearance of the poem appears to be from Bukowski’s live reading at the Viking Inn in Vancouver, British Columbia, on October 12, 1979. The poems was later collected in Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981) and The Pleasures of the Damned (2007).
The poem was tastefully framed using museum glass by Middle Village Frame Shoppe in New York.
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I ordered this for my mum, who loves Buk so much that he was a household name in our house growing up. She has all of his works (apart from post office which she lent out and was never returned). I wanted to treat her to something special and this shop is the very place to get the perfect gift for her. It was shipped the same day and arrived to the UK and was delivered in less than a week. I’m extremely impressed and my mum is thrilled to have something which he has held and signed. sending so much love to The Buk Shop team.
Thank you so much for the thoughtful note and picture of his grave. I will cherish it until the day I die<3
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