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[BRONTË, CHARLOTTE.]
Jane
Eyre.
By Currer Bell. Printed in double
columns. Tall 8vo, original brown printed
wrappers, uncut, backstrip titled in manu-
script and rubbed with slight loss to tips,
four corners with slight loss, closed tears
along joints.
NewYork: Harper & Brothers, 1848
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
;
an excellent sur-
vival. Scarce. Rare Book Hub lists only three
copies appearing at auction since 1997. With
the advertisements following Smith’s state (a),
lacking the Webster’s ad at the end, and with
the p. [175] variant that omits the date and
ends with a comma. Smith, Bronte, pp. 41-45.
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BUKOWSKI, CHARLES.
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands: New &
Selected Poems 1955-1963 * Crucifix in a Deathhand.
Together, 2 volumes.
Illustrated. 8vo and 4to, original printed pictorial wrappers over different colored and sized
hand-printed paper, mild rubbing to extremities, second title with publisher’s wraparound
band.
New Orleans; NewYork: Loujon Press, 1963; 1965
[800/1,200]
TWO SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS FROM LOUJON PRESS
.
Each signed in the year of publication, the
first title bearing a 4-line original poem in Bukowski’s hand:“Clowns are / closer to / perfect / than
/ architects.” Gypsy Lou Series nos. 1 and 2. Krumhansl 12; 15.
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