Post Office

A Novel

by Charles Bukowski 

Sixth printing.  Santa Barbara, CA:  Black Sparrow Press, 1976  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Pale blue paper illustrated covers are mostly clean, with orange text, quarter bound in navy cloth.  Boards show a little exposure at edges.  Corners are sharp.  See photos.  
• Spine has paper label with blue text and is bright with firm ends.
• Binding is strong. 
• Bright navy end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges are tanned, have a sprinkle of foxing spots.  See photos. 
• PS2024.0919

115 pages. 6 x 9 inches

ISBN: 0-87685-087-5

Hardcover under a Mylar jacket, this is a very good copy of the first published novel by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994).  Bukowski drew on his years working for the U.S. Postal Service for material in this novel that introduces Bukowski's autobiographical anti-hero, Henry Chinaski.  

Post Office marks the debut of the collaboration between Bukowski and Black Sparrow Press.  In late 1969, John Martin founded Black Sparrow Press in order to publish Bukowski's writing, offering him $100 per month for life on the condition that Bukowski would quit working for the post office and write full-time for Black Sparrow.  Bukowski agreed; three weeks later, he had written Post Office.

Sixth printing, per the copyright page.

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