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Bukowski, Charles

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1920-08-16 - 1994-03-09

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Grolier Club Collects, The, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-46923-49659
Scope and Contents

The exhibition consisted of books, manuscripts and works on paper from the collection of Grolier Club members. "The Heart of A Humument" from the Sackner Archive was exhibited and illustrated in the catalogue. George Koppelman exhibited Charles Bukowski's "The Genius of the Crowd," Cleveland:7 Flowers Press, 1966 (hand printed and illustrated by da levy). He purchased it for less than $1.00 from Jim Lowell, Asphodel Book Shop at the time of publication. The colophon called for 103 copies but about 40 copies survived since the rest were destroyed by the Cleveland police. Current price (2007) on the internet from Virtuous Books is $14,500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002