{"product_id":"bring-me-your-love","title":"Bring me your Love","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBUKOWSKI, Charles; R CRUMB [Illus.]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBring me your Love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSanta Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eLarge 8vo., blue denim-backed biege boards, printed and lettered in black and pink with an illustration in colour by Robert Crumb to upper board; paper label affixed to spine; bright pink endpapers; title in blue, pink and black with a vignette by Crumb; pp. [vi], 7-14, [ii]; with a further three captioned full-page illustrations; an excellent copy with occasional spots to texts; some minor browning to the title gutter; boards essentially fine. \u003cem\u003eProvenance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: previously in the Collection of David Kotthoff, without ownership markings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst, limited edition. \u003c\/strong\u003ePrinted in June 1983 by Graham Mackintosh with a design by Barbara Martin, bound by Earle Gray. One of just 376 hardcover copies, hand \u003cstrong\u003enumbered and signed by both Bukowski and Crumb.\u003c\/strong\u003e This copy no. 346.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eThe American writer Charles Bukowski and the infamous cartoon illustrator Robert Crumb collaborated on two books during the early 1980s. \u003cem\u003eBring me your Love \u003c\/em\u003ewas the first of these publications, and was followed the following year by \u003cem\u003eThere’s no Business, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich was also published by the Black Sparrow Press in 1984. The present example focuses on a protagonist common to many Bukowski stories - a man named Harry whose wife is in a mental hospital, and who spends his free time drinking and having sex. Crumb’s comic and graphic drawings compliment Bukowski’s short tale with illustrations showing Gloria punching herself in the face; Harry and Nan ‘going good’ in the motel room, and the same pair grappling on the floor, semi-clothed, both reaching for the telephone receiver. Crumb and Bukowski later came together for a third and final time in 1998, with a posthumous collection of Bukowski’s previously unpublished diaries. \u003cspan\u003e“He was a very difficult guy to hang out with in person” Crumb once wrote of Bukowski, “but on paper he was great.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScarce.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55917391937860,"sku":"SQ6017838","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/465Foldthecornerbooks02076.jpg?v=1776873507","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/bring-me-your-love","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}