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24 BUKOWSKI, Charles. Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Bensenville, IL: Mimeo Press / Publisher of Ole, 1965 HENRY CHINASKI arrives, INSCRIBED First edition of this early collection of Bukowski’s prose, one of only 500 printed, inscribed on the front pastedown: “To the world or the world of the person who gets there – Some Laughs For Your Noon’s- Midnight Muscle-Ache. Charles Bukowski, 1–26–66”. This title marks the debut of Bukowski’s alter-ego Henry Chinaski, the “pulp fiction hero” (Kirsch) who would go on to appear in five of Bukowski’s novels, a number of short stories, and the films Barfly (1987) and Factotum (2005). Octavo. Original pink wrappers stapled at spine, illustrated with painting by Anna Purcell on front and sketch by Bukowski on rear. Multicoloured leaves and mimeographed text within. Spine a touch sunned, slight crease to lower edge and tips; a near-fine copy, fresh and bright. ¶ Adam Kirsch, “The Transgressive Thrills of Charles Bukowski”, The New Yorker , 6 March 2005. £4,750 [150411]
25 BULGAKOV, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita (Russian text). Paris: YMCA Press, 1967 AMONG THE GREAT RUSSIAN NOVELS OF THE 20TH CENTURY First edition in book form, following publication in two issues of the Russian periodical Moskva in 1966 and 1967. Although the novel had been completed in 1938, in common with most of Bulgakov’s prose it was not published until long after his death in 1940. Bulgakov published a number of novels and stories through the early and mid-1920s, but by 1927 his career began to suffer from criticism that he was too anti-Soviet. By 1929 his career was ruined: government censorship prevented publication of any of his work and staging of any of his plays, and Stalin personally forbade him to emigrate. By 1967 Soviet publishing censorship had been relaxed, allowing Moskva to publish the novel, although the publication was still a censored version of the text which eliminated much of the anti-Soviet satire. Even so, it still caused an immediate sensation on publication. This edition in book form, printed in Paris, uses the Moskva text; the full unexpurgated text
was published in English later in 1967 and in Russian in Frankfurt in 1969. Octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in red and black. Housed in a black cloth solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Photographic portrait of the author in the text. Minor marking to wrappers, spine and bottom corner of front wrapper with very minor creasing. A near-fine copy, scarce in such fresh condition. £7,500 [152160] 26 BURNS, Robert. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and Sold by William Creech, 1787 First Edinburgh edition, the second overall, in a notably elegant binding by Rivière & Son, preserving the half-title. This edition was published in a run of approximately 3,250 copies on 17 April 1787, preceded only by the rare Kilmarnock edition of 612 copies published on 31 July 1786. The Edinburgh edition contains 22 new pieces, including “To a Haggis” and the first appearance in print of “Death and Doctor Hornbook”, which had been omitted from the Kilmarnock edition.
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