Post Office

London: London Magazine Editions, (1974). First british edition, 1st impression. 8vo. 149 pp. Original red-orange cloth boards, stamped in navy. Jacket shows trivial wear. Light handling and shelf wear. Top corner with faint creases. Hardcover is tight, square and firm. Bump to top front corner. Page edges clean. Signed by the author in red pen to the title page. Very scarce signed.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Post Office is the first novel written by American writer Charles Bukowski, published in 1971. The book is an autobiographical memoir of Bukowski's years working at the United States Postal Service. The film rights to the novel were sold in the early 1970s, but a film has not been made thus far. In December 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."