Pulp: A Novel

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, (1994). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 202 pp. Original quarter black cloth over red illustrated paper-covered boards, Light edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Lacking the issued acetate jacket. Book is tight, square and firm, corners sharp, rubbed. Faint toning to page edges. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: None

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. He began writing it in 1991 and encountered several problems during its creation. He fell ill during the spring of 1993, only three-quarters of the way through Pulp. A convoluted detective story about a hard-boiled private eye who solves his cases by waiting them out, Pulp evokes Raymond Chandler, an author who lived in Los Angeles and set stories there, as did Bukowski. The novel also bears similarity to some works by Dashiell Hammett; and the name of character Nicky Belane rhymes suggestively with the name of author Mickey Spillane as well as Casablanca's main character Rick Blaine.”