SCREAMS FROM THE BALCONY: SELECTED LETTERS 1960-1970

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original quarter yellow cloth and illustrated paper covered boards with titles in black to a white paper label on the spine, in the original plain acetate dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased, original plain acetate dustwrapper.

Issued in a limited edition of 600 copies, from which this example is numbered 272 on the colophon and signed by Charles Bukowski in black ink with the addition of a dog doodle on a blank endpaper at the front. A collection of letters from the 1960s, in which Bukowski recounts his efforts to succeed as a writer, his inability to quit his day job, and his battles with manic depression and other illnesses. (Krumhansl 137).