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Horses Don‘t Bet on People & Neither Do I, Signed

Bukowski, Charles
550 USD
Date
1963
Category
Mailer
Description
Two signed Bukowski poems from Wormwood Review, including the rare numbered issue of the promotional two-sided flyer. 8½x11”. Signed in black ink by Charles Bukowski on the first page. No. 2 of 29 signed and numbered copies. 1963. Issue 95.

This issue of Wormwood entirely devoted to Bukowski and is considered a separate ”A” item book title. Featuring pages 2 & 3 from Wormwood 11, ”a representative taste of Wormwood...” Includes the Bukowski poem and a piece by James Hazard. This copy is unfolded. 

Horses Don‘t Bet on People & Neither Do I [Wormwood 95]. Original illustrated orange wrappers, stamped in black. Signed by Bukowski on the first page. No. 365 of 700 copies. 1984. Comprises Same Old Thing, Shakespeare through Mailer and The Gun.

Light edgewear and faint foxing to flyer, small stain to fore-edge of front wrapper of chapbook; both pieces very good or better.
Excerpt
and I fired back like people in a play and I kept thinking Maria Maria I wonder if I'll ever see Maria again, and immortality did not seem important at all.
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